MK5 Golf GTI

All Things Mk5 => Mk5 General Area => Topic started by: Jussa on May 01, 2011, 08:41:27 pm

Title: MK5 GTi 0-60 times
Post by: Jussa on May 01, 2011, 08:41:27 pm

Guys,

I'm sure that a lot of you have your opinions on this  :party:
I'm not talking about accelerating till you see your speedo hit 60, cause as far as I'm concerned that's about 56-57mph?
apollo13 (on this forum) and I plugged in the VAG cable/software and you have a 0-60 test option on there.  On the few runs we did (before they kicked us out of Bluewater shopping centre)  :signLOL: he said I was changing gear at around 57mph (looking at his laptop), but I know my speedo was 60 or just over, so this slowed my time down when changing. 
So what I really want to know is can we hit 60 in 2nd gear (in other words carry on until around 63-64 on the speedo before changing), and are you sure it's safe to do so??  :scared:

Title: Re: MK5 GTi 0-60 times
Post by: vRS Carl on May 01, 2011, 09:44:53 pm

From memory i'm sure max in second is 59mph.

Title: Re: MK5 GTi 0-60 times
Post by: Jussa on May 01, 2011, 10:00:16 pm

Now that would be ridiculous  :signLOL:
You would have thought they would have designed it to squeeze an extra 1mph  :confused:

Title: Re: MK5 GTi 0-60 times
Post by: bacillus on May 01, 2011, 10:02:11 pm

Quote from: Jussa on May 01, 2011, 10:00:16 pm

Now that would be ridiculous  :signLOL:
You would have thought they would have designed it to squeeze an extra 1mph  :confused:

Makes no difference if you have a dsg box...   :wink:

Title: Re: MK5 GTi 0-60 times
Post by: Jussa on May 01, 2011, 10:07:29 pm

Mmmmm, the DSG box would still need to change.....albeit a bit quicker  :evilgrin:

Title: Re: MK5 GTi 0-60 times
Post by: Nasir on May 01, 2011, 11:24:14 pm

Maybe you're thinking too much of 0-60 times, they rarely mean anything in real life or on track (apart from grid starts but again, I don't think you'd do those in a road car). In gear acceleration is important and this is where the GTI is good.