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Title: which one should i sell GTI or A3 2.0T Quattro ?
Post by: mk5craig on February 27, 2013, 08:50:59 am
Hi all, looking for opinions, have had my gti for a year and mileage is nearly at 100k so was selling it and brought a 2006 a3 2.0t quatrro with low mileage whilst selling the gti,
The reason behind buying the a3 was quattro system with the gti engine and selling the gti before it  hit 100k as it seems to affect the value more and as i have a thing about 100k aswell, now im struggling to get any offers above 5050 for a 55plate gti with FSH on 98k i was expecting more like £5300 minimum, after having the a3 for 3 weeks, its not as fun as the gti to drive, you dont feel the road as much and just a bit boring also it doesnt seem to corner aswell and finally mpg is lower due to the quattro weight, so do i stick with the a3 and remap and put a rear ARB on and hope it changes the car which in theory it chould or do i re-sell it and keep the gti as it seems the value has dropped already?

Whats peoples opinions

thanks
Title: Re: which one should i sell GTI or A3 2.0T Quattro ?
Post by: simonp on February 27, 2013, 03:41:56 pm
Sell both and get an R32!
Title: Re: which one should i sell GTI or A3 2.0T Quattro ?
Post by: Sportline30 on February 27, 2013, 03:48:06 pm
Sell both and get an R32!

+1 some good priced R32's around at the minute.
Title: Re: which one should i sell GTI or A3 2.0T Quattro ?
Post by: alexmccabe on February 27, 2013, 03:53:33 pm
Or a MK6 .:R or Edition 35. Bit more expensive, but you know, ambitions. Haha
Title: Re: which one should i sell GTI or A3 2.0T Quattro ?
Post by: camfollower on February 27, 2013, 03:54:57 pm
How much are you set to lose on each sale?
Try and weigh up what needs doing now or shortly on each car to balance the equation.
Which do YOU prefer?
Title: Re: which one should i sell GTI or A3 2.0T Quattro ?
Post by: mk5craig on March 02, 2013, 10:49:13 pm
Sell both and get an R32!

Should of guessed this reply  :signLOL:
Title: Re: which one should i sell GTI or A3 2.0T Quattro ?
Post by: mk5craig on March 02, 2013, 10:50:46 pm
Think i will map the a3 in the next couple of weeks then decide
thanks for response but cant afford to sell both and get a r32 or mk6 and insurance is still high at the moment being 22,
Title: Re: which one should i sell GTI or A3 2.0T Quattro ?
Post by: sub39h on March 03, 2013, 07:20:07 am
what i wasn't aware of until recently is that Audi do funny things to the suspension settings on the A3 which means that it doesn't feel as good to drive as the Mk5 (though i doubt the extra weight from the quattro helps)

anyway i had my car's alignment set up by vRSAlex who knows what he's doing, and the car has felt amazing to drive ever since. for the sake of £75 i'd do that first and then make a decision
Title: Re: which one should i sell GTI or A3 2.0T Quattro ?
Post by: simonp on March 03, 2013, 03:54:34 pm
Sounds like a good tip. APS do great alignment set ups (and fit ARBs!). Maybe email Ed Jackson there and see what he says...
Title: Re: which one should i sell GTI or A3 2.0T Quattro ?
Post by: simonp on March 26, 2013, 04:28:30 pm
Well, what was the decision then?
Title: Re: which one should i sell GTI or A3 2.0T Quattro ?
Post by: bm_99 on March 26, 2013, 10:40:12 pm
Or a MK6 .:R or Edition 35. Bit more expensive, but you know, ambitions. Haha

Sorry to sound so stupid but edition 35????,  :surprised: which spec is this for mk 6 or 7

Anymore info on this, really getting confused with all the new ranges coming out lol
Title: Re: which one should i sell GTI or A3 2.0T Quattro ?
Post by: Gazza747 on March 27, 2013, 09:07:05 am
Edition 35 is a mk6
Title: Re: which one should i sell GTI or A3 2.0T Quattro ?
Post by: camfollower on March 27, 2013, 09:10:27 am
Is the ed35 tfsi or tsi?
Title: Re: which one should i sell GTI or A3 2.0T Quattro ?
Post by: Gazza747 on March 27, 2013, 09:13:36 am
ed35 and golf R use the older mk5 engine, the standard mk6 gti uses the newer engine.
Title: Re: which one should i sell GTI or A3 2.0T Quattro ?
Post by: camfollower on March 27, 2013, 09:16:38 am
Thought so, cheers... Must be a reason for it.
Title: Re: which one should i sell GTI or A3 2.0T Quattro ?
Post by: Gazza747 on March 27, 2013, 09:21:41 am
The mk5 engine is stronger to allow for the increase in power.
Title: Re: which one should i sell GTI or A3 2.0T Quattro ?
Post by: camfollower on March 27, 2013, 09:38:57 am
So we won't be seeing any 400bhp TSIs anytime soon then.
Title: Re: which one should i sell GTI or A3 2.0T Quattro ?
Post by: andy1979uk on March 27, 2013, 09:54:25 am
98k may as well be 100k, some people still consider it to be high.
Title: Re: which one should i sell GTI or A3 2.0T Quattro ?
Post by: jon-tfsi on March 27, 2013, 12:40:29 pm
The mk5 engine is stronger to allow for the increase in power.

The TSI engine is as strong as the ed30/35/s3 engine. 400bhp no problem. It does have oil starvation issues on track though.

The new s3 is reported to have thenewer TSI engine with a ko4.
Title: Re: which one should i sell GTI or A3 2.0T Quattro ?
Post by: Janner_Sy on March 27, 2013, 12:48:36 pm
The mk5 engine is stronger to allow for the increase in power.

The TSI engine is as strong as the ed30/35/s3 engine. 400bhp no problem. It does have oil starvation issues on track though.

The new s3 is reported to have thenewer TSI engine with a ko4.

The TSI engine from what i understand is actually stronger than the TFSI, and with a k04 turbo bolted on its makes a fair amount more power and torque.  But as said above, it suffers oil starvation  APR have worked out that this only occurs during cornering when G Forces go above 1G so basically you would need a heavily prepared track car running top end semi slicks on a dry day for this to happen.  Chatting with APR, they have developed a fix for this which stops the oil starvation so it allows them to keep on racing their Mk6 GTI race cars so its no longer an issue.

Back to the OP. 

Id keep the 2.0TFSI quattro ove the GTI all day long.
Title: Re: which one should i sell GTI or A3 2.0T Quattro ?
Post by: simonp on March 27, 2013, 03:55:27 pm
And we're back...