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Jay's actual GTI... now with added accuair.
th3_f15t:
Onto bigger and better things? Mk6 R?
Hurdy:
Yes, what have you bought Jay?
xjay1337:
--- Quote from: Hurdy on September 02, 2014, 04:39:44 pm ---Yes, what have you bought Jay?
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Scirocco CR170.
I'll start a build thread once I have done some more bits to it but it's Nick's (he owns Detail My Car who I help out with the detailing) bosses old car which I got for a very, very very good price. The car is very high spec... Xenons, Full heated Leather, RCD510 with MDI kit, nearly new Goodyear Eagle F1's all round..was under warranty with VW until May 2014 and has full service history.. mileage is high.. over 100k now.. but still got it for a bargain.
Plans are to make it around 240-250bhp and put the best in handling components on it and just enjoy it as a nice car to drive and do the occasional trackday etc. Will be featuring larger brakes and that sort of thing. :happy2:
--- Quote from: th3_f15t on September 02, 2014, 04:38:37 pm ---Onto bigger and better things? Mk6 R?
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Unfortunately not.
My plan with the GTI was to make it into as much of a "show" car as you can and still retain the driving fun.
It drives brilliantly despite the air nay-sayers, however - It does SO many miles that, while I can afford it, I can't justify it anymore.
I've averaged about 800 miles per month through work alone (just going to customer sites etc) the last 3 months.. I'm seemingly always driving about. My work provide me with £150 a month car allowance (to cover "wear and tear") - by far the lowest in the company - and I get fuel at about 20p per mile. The fuel costs are about equal but the £150 per month gets eaten up by things like tyres, other little mods and bits and pieces.
Combined with the trips to London once a week for the meets and events, it's just slogging up and down the motorways, not to mention travelling to see my Girlfriend (it's a 50 mile return trip which isn't much but as I always end up going to hers as she doesn't like my houseshare situation) means that my mileage has exponentially gone up and how can I ever hope to have a car nice enough to be considered a show car when it gets used against what I intended it to be used for??? It's completely pointless.
I am keeping the GTI as is for a month or two - I can afford to run both cars, both cars are insured etc.. So if no-one is interested in buying it whole I'll be stripping it and selling it as a somewhat more standard vehicle and selling the bits separately.
Life story over.
GrayMK5GTI:
Nice choice with the CR170 Rocco, I ran one for 12months or so. . .
Ran it pretty low on coilies and it looked mint :jumping: the arches are higher than on the golf so closing the arch gap leaves you with less clearance underneath than on the golf.
Loads and loads of VCDS tweaks possible with these (XDS, DRL option in MFD, needle sweep. . .). - if you have the facelift interior and yours is a MY2010 (hard to tell from the reg)
You should get mid-high 50's on a run, and think the tank is bigger than the mk5. 700+miles is possible to a tank
The soundaktor gives it a petrol-like soundtrack (if you like that sort of thing :ashamed:)
A Revo map will see 200-210bhp in typical smooooooth CR delivery. Stage 2 gets a pretty much smokeless 220bhp. Intake is supposed to make a bit of difference too.
Enjoy :drinking:
th3_f15t:
The under laying chassis of a mk5 Golf, the looks of a coupe and the performance you can live with. Win all round.
My only problem with the Rocco is I can not decide which wheels suit them... Otherwise it's a beautiful car.
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