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MK5 GTI refresh - what's involved?

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breeze:
If you are buying a car with a view to refresh just go in with your eyes open on cost. Depending on how picky you are you can burn a lot quite quickly, particularly if you are paying other people.

pudding:
Balance shaft seizure is an exaggerated problem. Most of the failures stem from neglect and/or over speeding them with extended rev limits from remaps.

After 8 years of daily driving one, it became pretty clear to me that most modifications ruin the car, in terms of daily use at least, and all they need is regular maintenance and TLC for a long life  :happy2:  All I would do to one if I did it again, is a chassis bush refresh, very mild springs with bilstein dampers, stage 1 tune and that's it.  The gains from that point on cost considerably more to implement and come with too many compromises in terms of NVH and reduced lifespan.

Anyway, get yourself a car, the best you can afford, and go from there.  There's a ton of experience and info on here to get you started on the journey when you're ready.

Yeah shame about the Blockster.  That was a shock hearing that on the radio!  And then Jeremy Renner did something similar shortly after, crazy!

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