Mk3 Golf Estate Test Drive/Review

Considered as the most unloved of all of the VW Golfs, I gladly took this for a drive, but I found something in this that the mk4 didn't bother to keep.
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[@neilwalsh4058]

No one does dull quite as well as Volkswagen. Very true though when you said cars with character usually means cars with flaws 👍

[@AliMackMechanical]

Always liked the mk3 Golf especially the 1.9 diesel it is a really good engine. Good review on it Rusty Love is a KZbin channel. Mano is a good friend of mine 😂😂

[@dreammaker730]

Yes I met mano at himley hall . Had a sticker and a t-shirt. The sticker is on my car which is in this video . Share it with mano.

[@StevensPaul]

Mano and Gav are great 👍. Always drop in for their Video's 🚗🚙💨😄.

[@emmajacobs5575]

Oh, are they the guys that had that mad V8 Frogeye Sprite?

[@AliMackMechanical]

@@emmajacobs5575 Yeah he still got it

[@paulie-Gualtieri.]

Definitely not the dullest, it's rather cool now.

[@windymiller5058]

Will you be reviewing all the Golfs? My favourites are the mark 2 and 5. I didn’t care too much for the Mk3 at the time because I liked the Mk2 but looking at it now, it’s quite an elegant evolution. I like the front and I like the steel wheels. VW were very good at wheels. One thing I didn’t like about the Mk3 was it’s hard, thin steering wheel and it would appear I’m not alone given that the owner of this one would rather the uncertainty of a slippery cover than the feel of it. This one looked very nice for such and elderly and well travelled vehicle. I may be wrong as I have absolutely no data but I get the feeling that people who brought these older Golfs tended to keep them for a long time and they became part of the furniture, something which seemed to change with the Mk4 though that might be because of a change in behaviour rather than the Mk4 being responsible for a mass change in VW owner’s behaviours. Today in a virtual meeting someone asked me a question and I wasn’t really listening so I started to give one of those answers where you vaguely agree and disagree with something unspecified when I was interrupted by someone telling me they couldn’t hear me and a pop up telling me my camera had stopped working. My computer was looking out for me so now I don’t begrudge it all that electricity I feed it and the little stand I got for it to sit on. Look after your tools and they’ll look after you.

[@dreammaker730]

That steering wheel cover was tight when I bought it 6 years ago 😂😂. And yes the steering wheel feels horrible without the cover . Yes I've covered 60k in six years , that car has been a rock .

[@dreammaker730]

What a lovely blue car 😂😂😂😂

[@txc_mk3vari]

the best and only car review for my cars look alike! minus the blue interior, mine is black but colour and engine and spec are the same! glad to see another mk3 golf estate on the road being looked after and mine is currently on 131,800 miles. the 1.9d 1y engine is such a nippy motor giving lots of torque and wofting power. and best of all, i done a test on mpg and mine gets 66mpg on a run and 45mpg round town! i love my little golf estate and never getting rid

[@dreammaker730]

Cheers mate do you still have yours I still have mine 👍

[@txc_mk3vari]

@@dreammaker730 i do mate, i do

[@alextoft9199]

I like it just because it's so of it's time. 👍

[@davidlipski863]

I had the same car in this colour used it when working away in Ireland in 2009-11 it had 230,000 miles and drove like it had done 50,000 never had any problems with it and did more than 50 mpg. Bought it to save the miles on the Passat Estate which we still own now which has done 192,000 and will be 23 years old in 2024.

[@dreammaker730]

Reviewed like a pro , sir.

[@johnchincotta1qwdb15]

Hi paul,these cars were purposely built to last unlike todays modern vws

[@sonofjak1971]

As a whole i think the Golf is ok, personally if i was in the market for one it would definitely be a mark four and coincidentally i'd avoid the mark three. In my uninformed and uninteresting opinion the mark three is the ugliest of all the Golfs. However if my life depended on having a mark three it would be the estate. I have no idea what any of this means. Nice video regardless.

[@glenmason1876]

I don't remember seeing many of these on the road at the time, plenty of saloons though

[@annewhistleketle6350]

Yes, you are correct sir, i owned the MK3 and MK4.. MK4 was an upgrade in interior and overall build quality but the MK3 drove way better, MK4 felt like a boat.

[@begachka]

Nothing wrong with mk4. Solid, heavy but once you've driven miles and miles and it's doing what it's supposed to, actually fairly satisfying. Mk 3 td was NOISY.

[@phoneitbuyitpickitup9212]

I bought one of these in 2014 for £400 with an MOT. It was red, 1.8 petrol. It was a great car!! I loved it! Drove it to work for a year then sold it for £175 when the MOT ran out and the tyres were bald. All it had in my time was 2 rear wheel bearings for about £100 fitted 🙂

[@dreammaker730]

I had a 1.8 before the car you see in this video bought for 250 with no mot had it 12 years . Yea the rear wheel bairings are a bit weak , I do my own 15 quid a side .

[@Dino_Dad.]

nice review and a lovely car. it'll probably still be here after we've all nuked each other. it would be great if someone popped by your way with a mk2 ...or the holy grail a mk1 we can but dream .

[@simonbrader8408]

i enjoyed that 👍

[@TrevorBuick]

Proper no frills workhorse, yummy, was surprised to see a rev counter 🤣

[@paultaylor9652]

Trivia first, they have the same steering wheel as the Skoda Felicia. The Golf then was durable and they was built to last, unlike the tin can rubbish they turn out nowadays. They might have all the gadgets now, but things can fail numerous times and they just replace them with the same part, and don't get me started with stop/start systems on them.

[@channex8179]

The MK3 went rusty in nothing more than a weekend shower, They literally dissolved that's why you don't see them anymore.

[@dreammaker730]

​ @channex8179 yes I have seen loads of rusty ones over the years , however the two I've owned have been pretty rust free. I've only had golds for cheap motoring and the 1st one I had 12 years paid 250 for 1.8 8v and this one had 7 years bought for 150 , my fr8end at work has an octavia vrs I quite like that.

[@channex8179]

@dreammaker730 your pretty lucky, I'm 43 and a V.A.G main dealer mechanic currently working for Skoda and the Mk3 Golf was pretty terrible , I worked for Seat before that and the Ibiza was 1 half Golf and 1 half Polo and they all rotted away. Its not some figment of my imagination they were rot boxes and I've witnessed it 1st hand.

[@dreammaker730]

@@channex8179 mate I'm 46 , I do agree with you about most of them rotting away , they do in loads of places I was saying I've been lucky enough to have 2 good ones ..

[@channex8179]

@dreammaker730 fair enough mate, I'm just talking from experience with working with V.A.G. for years. You will always get good ones, I had an '99 plate Ibiza Cupra Sport in magic Black circa 2010 not an inch of rust on it, I traded it for a Leon FR wish I'd kept it now tbh.

[@StevensPaul]

Lots of these Golfs and Passats roaming around here. I've destroyed many here @work👀😬😮💥👹💥. It's my JOB!!

[@sydsnott5042]

There's still plenty out there for you to destroy so get on with it lol 👍

[@dreammaker730]

Yes and I bet they are all pretty rust free over there .

[@StevensPaul]

@@dreammaker730 They usually are. But instead of the Sheetmetal getting rusty, it's the Plastic -- Rubber -- Urethane -- and Vinyl that gets "Soft" and disintegrates. Leather Roofs and Interiors REALLY need to be looked after or else they go to shit.

[@saeeddaura-bq8qq]

well done gentelmens only ladies forbidin💀

[@Dick-Dastardly]

In the original 60s series and only proper 'Star Trek', was an episode called 'Arena' featuring an ugly reptilian race called 'The Gorn'. This is significant because it was the face of the aforementioned 'Gorn' upon which the front end of the Golf was based! Not a lot of people know that! 😁 Some very nifty sped-up footwork at 0.59! 😀 Golf Estate check list: style -satisfactory; interior - dull but practical; engine - durable; space - sufficient; wheels - the usual! Conclusion: If Golf is good enough for Bernhard-Langer, that'll VW for me!😃

[@paulie-Gualtieri.]

I can't unsee it now 😅

[@emmajacobs5575]

I don’t know about polar bears, but the BMW iX looks like a capybara