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Mk5 General Area / Re: Sometimes High idle, revs jumping when shifting, rev hang, slow rpm drop

« Last post by crookedd on October 09, 2025, 01:35:18 pm »

A refurbished BWA engine starts from 3.5k euro here(netherlands). Im sure you can source engines second hand somewhere but who knows what state that would be in.

Thought id upload a picture of the cam.

I kinda want a sedan. Leaning towards the giulia and S3 limousine. A45 AMG is faster tho and have always really loved how they looked, especialy in white with the aero package. Still have to save up a bit so enough time to change my mind many times haha.

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Mk5 General Area / Re: Sometimes High idle, revs jumping when shifting, rev hang, slow rpm drop

« Last post by ZoliWorks on October 09, 2025, 01:26:18 pm »

Damn. That's all I can really say.. 3200 for a head rebuild is crazy. I could probably get my whole engine forged for that. I can buy a whole used k03 engine for 800 to 1000 tops and a k04 engine for 2000. for 1.5k I could get used s3 cams, new rocker arms and lifters, have the head machined and refurbed lol

Mine is not looking that great either. There's a piece of my inlet cam on cyl 3 missing and it's misfiring on almost every single try on cyl 3 at idle. I'll have to get mine done as well next year for sure.

Good luck on your next car hunt! Get a mk7 cause those things are sexy and make great power with just a stage 1!

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Mk5 General Area / Re: Looking for help to source a DSG Gearbox

« Last post by Jons1001 on October 08, 2025, 11:54:09 am »

Best of luck. Out of interest how many miles has it done? And has it had dsg services on time?

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Mk5 General Area / Re: Power folding mirror modules.

« Last post by GTI 500 on October 07, 2025, 10:00:51 pm »

That's great thank you.

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Mk5 General Area / Re: Looking for help to source a DSG Gearbox

« Last post by SP02 on October 07, 2025, 09:28:34 pm »

What issue(s) are you seeing with your present gear box?

Car is driving for around 10-15 minutes then going into limp mode. R tech have had a look at it & said it needs a whole new box , a family friend’s vw specialist has said it needs a new mechatronics unit aswell. Got the flashing PRNDS when this happens.

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Mk5 General Area / Re: Looking for help to source a DSG Gearbox

« Last post by bacillus on October 07, 2025, 08:06:00 pm »

What issue(s) are you seeing with your present gear box?

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Mk5 General Area / Looking for help to source a DSG Gearbox

« Last post by SP02 on October 07, 2025, 03:02:28 pm »

Honestly can’t find one anywhere, 55 plate mk5 GTI , been off the road over a month now . Don’t really have the money to recondition this year so a second hand one is needed . Local to Coventry / West Midlands .

Any help is appreciated.

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Announcements / Re: Almost brand new GTI

« Last post by GVK on October 06, 2025, 05:56:30 pm »

failed MOT after 1731 miles Actual mileage 7985

8700 miles on the dash image - MOT runs out Dec 2025.

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Announcements / Re: Almost brand new GTI

« Last post by GVK on October 06, 2025, 05:54:24 pm »

Ahh yeh, failed on headlamp aim.

Nothing drastic.

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Announcements / Re: Almost brand new GTI

« Last post by GVK on October 06, 2025, 05:53:09 pm »

Maybe for somebody who’s Looking for a GTI

I don’t know how this works but a YouTuber “Saving Salvage”
is giving a GTI away on “Compete for cars”
Looks like it has been in a timecapsule…
Don’t shoot me of how this “Compete stuff” is working😅
Hopefully sombody can be the owner of this nice & clean example 😎👍🏻

For some reason I can’t upload a screenshot of it on here now?!?🙄
Go check it out on YouTube…

It's competition not a for sale advert, nice car though.