MK5 Golf GTI
All Things Mk5 => Members Rides => Topic started by: TheFrog on February 22, 2010, 03:01:58 pm
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Hi, all. New on here - thanks to Phil Mcavity for the heads-up - and just posting a few random pictures of my MkVI. It has had dealer-fit Interlagos wheels on from birth (I personally am not too keen on the Monzas) and was Revo'd to 275hp last September :smiley:
I have just ordered some Golf R-type LED rear lights from Germany and am anxiously awaiting their arrival :drool:
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Very nice! :congrats:
Loving the garage too! :happy2: Is that the dark Grey colour?
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very nice mate..
loving the carbon grey that was my second choice of colour... iv got my R lights on order any time this week..
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Love that colour !!! :happy2:
Great looking motor and Rocco wheels suit very well :happy2:
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Lovely car frog :happy2:
About time we saw you on here.
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Lovely car frog :happy2:
About time we saw you on here.
Thanks for your welcome & positive comments, guys.
Yes, it's Carbon Grey, now (unfortunately :wink:) also available on the GTD.
I would have joined earlier, only... I didn't know you were here :ashamed: Anyhow, thanks to Phil, I am now fully signed up and raring to go. Now if we can just keep the trolls at bay... :happy2:
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very nice, part of me thinks the MK6 should have come with the interlagos wheels :happy2:
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Lovely car frog :happy2:
About time we saw you on here.
Now if we can just keep the trolls at bay... :happy2:
ahmen to that mate :wink:
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top man! lovely pics and lovely garage! ;)
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Very nice car. :happy2:
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ooo very nice , the wheels suit the mk6 far better than the mk5 :happy2:
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nice car mate, where in france are you?
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That looks stunning matey :drool: :drool:
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I could live with that. :happy2: :congrats:
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Thanks again for your warm welcome. I feel at home here already :drinking:
P.S. LED rear lights should be arriving today. I'll post pix later :smiley:
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the carbon grey sits in the top three mk6 colours for me
love the rocco rims, toying with a colour change for mine to something a bit darker
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toying with a colour change for mine to something a bit darker
I was originally going to get reflex silver, but my son persuaded me to go for carbon grey (he is 20 and therefore thinks anything with 'carbon' in the name is cool) and I must say I don't regret it. When I ordered the car last May, it was a unique-to-the-GTI colour, but now - unfortunately - they also offer it on the GTD.
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Lovely car frog and fine choice of colours (by your son!). Welcome mate :happy2:
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how you finding the economy after having it revo'd?
Is there anything you can compare it to now it is done?
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how you finding the economy after having it revo'd?
Is there anything you can compare it to now it is done?
Economy seems to have dipped a little, TBH, and I don't think I drive the car any harder than I did before. If I drive very carefully (no city driving, steady 50-60mph) I can get about 38 mpg, but driving it normally (not stupidly) returns about 30 mpg.
I am slightly disappointed, although before the GTI, I had had nothing but turbo diesels, including a few TDIs which never seemed to need filling up :wink:
As for performance, it's in a different league to the stock car. I was a little disppointed by the acceleration when it first arrived. The Revo remap gives it the kind of performance I was expecting from a pocket rocket. I timed a 0-60mph run using the DSG box's launch control and my iPhone (!) a couple of months ago and got 5.6 seconds, which isn't too bad.
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very nice, part of me thinks the MK6 should have come with the interlagos wheels :happy2:
...........they do suit it.I'm not a Monza fan & changed them on mine.
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very nice, part of me thinks the MK6 should have come with the interlagos wheels :happy2:
...........they do suit it.I'm not a Monza fan & changed them on mine.
Monzas are a bit like Marmite, I think: you either love 'em, or (in my case) hate 'em. Another pic' in the Spring sunshine this afternoon showing the new R-type LED rear lights I fitted yesterday :smiley:
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Enough of your sunny pics already!! :sad1:
Forgot what the sun looks like!! :laugh:
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Enough of your sunny pics already!! :sad1:
Forgot what the sun looks like!! :laugh:
Only 13°, though :wink:
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very nice, part of me thinks the MK6 should have come with the interlagos wheels :happy2:
...........they do suit it.I'm not a Monza fan & changed them on mine.
Monzas are a bit like Marmite, I think: you either love 'em, or (in my case) hate 'em. Another pic' in the Spring sunshine this afternoon showing the new R-type LED rear lights I fitted yesterday :smiley:
(https://www.mk5golfgti.co.uk/forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.golfgti6.com%2Fledsout.jpg&hash=7a67a20d9753837a308001504a0fb863768e3c75)
........will have to comment when i get home. Work's filters block some pics & not others (these are blocked).Car porn. :signLOL:
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Stunning looking ride you have there Frog :happy2:, welcome to the mad house :drinking: