MK5 Golf GTI
All Things Mk5 => Mk5 General Area => Topic started by: DDM on August 17, 2014, 11:21:08 am
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morning all, after a long time thinking exactly what car to look for I've decided on a mk6 golf gti, the advice i'm after is based on the following, i had a skoda vrs tfsi in just the other month for some work and when delivering it back to the customer i thought it didn't pull any where near like my mk5 golf gt tdi sport 140 bhp ( which is completely standard), now before anyone thinks i caned a customers car, i certainly didn't, it was just a case of how it pulled out of my garage onto the main road and upto 60 mph. so the question is would a mk6 golf gti be similar to the skoda? any advice appreciated.
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The 140 TDI has more torque than the GTI (320nm - up from 280nm) so perhaps that was why. I'm considering doing the opposite swap myself as I'm after something more economical :sad1:
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Are you aware of the issue's with the 2.0 TSI engines timing chain and related components?
For example...
http://www.briskoda.net/forums/topic/266114-18tsi-and-20tsi-engine-failures/
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The 140 TDI has more torque than the GTI (320nm - up from 280nm) so perhaps that was why. I'm considering doing the opposite swap myself as I'm after something more economical :sad1:
as right, cheers for that, the gti is just going to be a bit of a toy for me, still going to keep the mk5 as our family car as it's just been faultless for the last 5 yrs.
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Are you aware of the issue's with the 2.0 TSI engines timing chain and related components?
For example...
http://www.briskoda.net/forums/topic/266114-18tsi-and-20tsi-engine-failures/
no I wasn't aware of this, thanks bud, I take it this is the same engine as fitted in the mk6 gti, the one i'm looking at is a 2010 model with 22,000 miles so fits in with the link you provided.
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Yes unfortunately... http://www.golfgtiforum.co.uk/index.php?PHPSESSID=016tnoarh3as0qhgf7c2pahn94;topic=262793.0
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i'll ring vw tomorrow and dig for some info, as the one i'm looking at has a vw service plan from new, which has one service left and one mot test left. thanks again for the info.