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Peskarik: Edition 30 Oettinger Stage 2

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Peskarik:
My Edition 30 will be 2 years old next week..  :drinking:

Initially I was thinking about Alfa Romeo 147 GTA, love those cars especially in Alfa's "milky white" paint. Always turn around and watch when 147GTA drives by.  :love:
Learned to drive in Alfa Romeo 164, and that was a really good car, which both me and my father tortured when we both learned how to drive, and it took it all in stride and never went broke, even though we bought it when it was 5 years old, and kept it for 5 years. The whole family (including my mom) had trouble to separate from 164 when time came to change rides. I remember how we went from Alfa to Volvo S40, and my left foot kept slamming into the floor when I depressed the clutch pedal in Volvo.  :smiley: Alfa's clutch was so heavy, and now I kind of went full circle with that issue, but more about that later.

Anyway, was pining over 147GTA, but they were all second hand by then. Looked into Volvo S60R. Audi S3 was too expensive. TypeR and ST were dismissed very quickly. Once saw a pic of tuned GTI, and it caught my eye. Started reading internet, read about Edition 30, got interested. Went to dealer and saw candy white Edition 30 with black wheels, and that was it really, love at first sight. 2 minutes and I was ripe to buy the car. Which I also did.  :happy2:

That is how it looked the day I picked it up and went for a run-in in Swiss Alps:






That was really special to see the thick snow in the middle of 30 degree summer.  :happy2:

Rich:
Where does the Oettinger bit come into here - bit confused lol  :confused:

Peskarik:
Ah, yes, the Oettinger bit.  Totally forgot about that sighing over those photos :grin:

Anyway, after 20000km and many hours on www.golfgti.co.uk forum where I got acquainted with crazies  :wink:  like Hurdy and RedRobin, I got infected with tuning bug.

It started somehow small but still with a bang. I went to Oettinger, changed the air filter to K&N one, and got Stage 1 map, which Oettinger proclaims produces 300hp and 410Nm of torque.
The change was obvious on the road. It was a totally different car. In fact, I got a heavy speeding ticket going back home after the map, as I was having too much fun on the highway. 180CHF it cost me. But OK, I had higher fines before.  :wink:

Next was the suspension mod.
I went back to Oettinger and got KW Version 2 installed, together with 10mm spacers on the back. Did not get any spacers on the front, as I was afraid of rubbing and Oettinger did not have smaller width centered spacers, and they did not recommend uncentered ones.
The drop was 30mm, according to Oettinger, and KW settings on Sport, but not REAL Sport, as Oettinger guy told me.

That is how it looked after the suspension mod:







As you see, I could not even stick one finger in between the arch and the tyre.

Some more pics:






The car looked mean, but the problems were obvious right from the start:
1) Hard ride.
Now I knew the roads in Switzerland were not THAT good. Driving German autobahn was also scary, as there are many joints and seams, undulations, and the car goes over them really hard, everything transmits into the cabin. I was scared to push over 220kmh, as I was afraid something would break or fall off. Also, I was afraid of rubbing (see below). That, even though, before I even started tuning, I went 230kmh on French highway.

2) Rubbing.
There was rubbing in the back, on the right side. I was now really looking at the road surface ahead and trying to avoid holes. There was a piece of metal sticking from inside the rear right wing, and that was touching the tyre. I had that metal piece filed down, and that improved things, but over bigger holes still had rubbing in the back.
I also had rubbing in the front, primarily when turning over curbs (and these were pretty small and smooth curbs).

One day I had 2 people in my car (plus moi, the driver), and I slowly turned right over a very low curb to get on the side road to a garage, and the front right tyre got caught in the metal of the arch, bending it out and destroying the paint. Now I have to repaint the whole right wing.
That was it, I had the car lifted 5mm. Though I left the spacers there. They make the car look that much better, in my opinion.  :happy2:

Rich:
Nice :happy2:


Oettinger are quality... but at a price !

Peskarik:
After the initial suspension mod I was driving the car for months, but very carefully, because of the rubbing issues.

I've even driven it on summer tyres (Exalto) in winter, over snow and ice. (I know that was the most stupid and irresponsible thing, so no comments, please).

More pics (some before suspension work):











And some encounters (still before suspension work):
The black one was driven by a nice blond.  :happy2:



for next one, I just stopped in the middle of the road and went to take a picture.  :smiley: That was the first white Edition30 I encountered after 1 year of driving:


Regular GTI obviously with suspension mod:

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