MK5 Golf GTI
All Things Mk5 => Members Rides => Topic started by: Megy_ED30 on May 13, 2011, 04:54:27 pm
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Hi all,
I have only had my car 2 weeks and already loving it loads. I have come from an Impreza WRX but due to having some duffness in my left knee I needed to go for something without a clutch pedal. I put a fair bit of thought into what to go for and having had a MK3 Golf GTi 16V several years back I decided to look at Golfs again, although a Scirocco and Mitsubishi Lancer GSR were also looked at, but quickly ignored (although my wife would have had the Lancer if it was her choice).
I didnt have any idea about the Edition 30 but saw one close to me so did a bit of reading up on it, the more I read the more I wanted it, before even seeing it, so a few weekends ago my wife and I had a look at an 07 plate R32 in black and the GTi Edition 30. Although the R32 was very nice, and sounded amazing, the Edition 30 just seemed to be better in almost all aspects, so we bought it, trading in the Scoobie. 2 things helped us to decide,other than both preferring the Edition 30, firstly, the insurance for the R32 was about £100 more, plus the R32 was double the Edition 30 to tax, had we liked the cars equally it would have been a difficult choice.
Here are the first (phone) photos of my new car, taken on the day I got it.
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First thing I did, after just the 1 day was to change the radio, the car came with the RCD300 which is useless really, yes, it had the iPod connector in the arm rest, but it doesn't play anything you want it to, just the first 5 playlists, and the the first 99 tracks (or something like that), so I went to Halfruads and got the stuff to fit the Pioneer single DIN headunit that I had in my Scoobie. I am looking to change this for a nice double DIN touchscreen in the next couple of months.
After joining this forum the bug soon hit, and I wanted to start making it a little more unique to myself, personalising it almost, so after seeing a couple of people doing this simple mod, I searched eBay and got a new badge, and fitted it last weekend.
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This was not enough though, the bug was taking hold of me and I just needed to do more, so eBay was searched and several purchases were made.
After being told about another small badge, I thought it would look good on my car, so bought a couple, they came during the week and so I fitted them earlier on. I must add, I work 120 miles away from home so stay away during the week, talk about a tease, my Wife kept taunting me about all the bits too.
The badges
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And fitted
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I had seen that someone was selling a pair of Carbon Fibre DSG paddle extensions, in the time it took me to have a look at the site he got them from they had already gone, so I did a bit of searching around, instead of the £200 ish for the TID made extensions, I found a guy in Canada selling similar for £80, so I made contact and swiftly bought a set, I have to say he was a pleasure to buy from and the communication throughout the whole process was exceptional, if anyone is looking for any I can highly recommend him (contact me for contact details if you want), anyway, some images are below prior to fitment.
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Having worked with carbon fibre for several years (Formula 1 - 3 teams and 2 car manufacturers) the quality isnt too shabby at all, a couple of flaws but certainly nothing to worry about. Within a few minutes of opening them up I went to the car and set about fitting them.
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I am not 100% convinced about the security of the extensions being taped in place, they feel to wobble a little, so the jury is out on how secure they are at the moment, I have some super dooper strength tape from work (aviation grade double sided) which if I have any issues with will be straight on, I will keep you posted on this.
Some of you may have seen my thread in the cosmetic mods section about black bonnet badges, when I had my MK3 I was able to go to VW and get one of these from the parts department, this doesnt seem to be the case anymore, and trying to find one was a mission in itself, I bought 1 from a place online, who then emailed me to say they are unable to source the badge now so they have cancelled the order, hopefully I will get my money back no worries, anyway, Matsu on here said he had a spare badge so after a couple of mails through here we agreed a price, I paid and he posted it off, low and behold, it was on my doorstep when I got home today, so that is now fitted also.
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I am also waiting to get some carbon fibre effect wrap from Boothy on here, so my badge I have just taken off will be wrapped and I will see which one I prefer the looks of, choices choices, decisions decisions.
I have one last mod sitting on my dining room table waiting to be fitted, but this one is getting done on Sunday. Golfman is fitting a cruise control stalk for me and doing the reprograming that is necessary for it to work, I am looking forward to having this done as I do a 120 mile journey to and from work on Mondays and Fridays plus other family members are down in England so a fair old drive when I go see them.
Not sure on the more technical and performance mods yet, though saying that probably means they will happen, the ones I am looking at are, stage 1 remap, Revo or Superchips, S3/R32 front brakes and maybe anti roll bars. And something I only found out about yesterday from Mandy, a DSG box remap, more investigation here me thinks.
Being a keen semi pro photographer I will be taking some better shots of the car once the weather is nicer and I am not out playing in it all the time.
Thats all from this (boring) first post in this section, no doubt more will follow, though maybe not the 20 odd pages some of you have.
Ian - Megy_ED30
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Welcome and great choice of car :happy2:
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Welcome Ian!
Those paddles dont look too shabby at all, do they interfere with the indicator/wiper stalks at all?? Might see if i can get a small group buy going on those im sure a few would take a set!
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Dont seem to, I tried the wheel in a few different positions and tried the stalks and dont seem to get in the way, I have fairly chunky pigs t1ts for fingers and they aint a problem for me, I did read about some that some people said they couldn't use cos their fingers didnt fit between them and the stalks, but I aint found that yet. Will be driving it later on so will give them a quick road test. Did you get the mail with the link to the other forum with them on, I can contact him and see about getting an external email address if you want, saves you registering etc. It seems a very american site.
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That would be very helpful Ian! :happy2:
Hit me up on Flickr too... richwigley!
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:fighting: Steel grey FTW
Car looks great, i think im going to have to lower my expectations for an ED30, im too picky when looking...
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Ah, so you got the seat inserts then :happy2:
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Ah, so you got the seat inserts then :happy2:
Indeedie, and they look great too. I take it you recommended them on the other forum then, if so, thanks loads. They finish the seats off nicely and match the kick plates on the sills.
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So I went for a quick drive earlier, and got to say, the paddle extensions made a huge difference, it means I can drive with my hands in the 10 to 2 position as oppose to the (not too comfy) quarter to 3 position, it is much better all round. They feel like proper paddles and not just a button on the wheel. Highly recommended.
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Paddle extensions make a huge difference. i have the TID carbon fibre ones, and yours very almost identical to the TID versions.
Well worth £80, thats half what i payed for mine 2 years ago from TID.
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Very nice Megy :happy2: Best colour you've got there :wink:
The DSG paddles are uber cool. They remind me of BMW auto box paddles.
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Very nice Ian, glad to see you're enjoying the car. :pomppomp:
Good mods so far...
Wonder how long before you get a remap :grin: definitely worth looking into the DSG map too. :happy2:
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Ah, so you got the seat inserts then :happy2:
Indeedie, and they look great too. I take it you recommended them on the other forum then, if so, thanks loads. They finish the seats off nicely and match the kick plates on the sills.
Yup, on uk-mkivs, I think our cars are gonna look identical!
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Looks good like the paddle extensions :happy2:
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looks stunning mate, loving the carbon fibre
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Cars looking great ian i would say that seeing as i have seen it in the flesh :wink:
definitely needs more interior upgrades!!!
scott :happy2:
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Wow love the carbon paddles!
Great choice of colour too :happy2:
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Ian.. did you manage to get that guys contact email?
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Ian.. did you manage to get that guys contact email?
Yes, sorry I did, will mail it over to you tomorrow when I can get on PC again.