If you do a quick Internet search for "golf dsg towing" you'll find several reports of people in Britain with 1.4 TSI Golfs towing caravans with no worries. Presumably if VW thought there was any...
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If you do a quick Internet search for "golf dsg towing" you'll find several reports of people in Britain with 1.4 TSI Golfs towing caravans with no worries. Presumably if VW thought there was any...
Yes! Personally, if anything I'd actually prefer the opposite of what the Sprint Booster claims to do - making it easier to drive my Golf smoothly and sedately. Call me an unfinessed pedal-masher...
Does it still have the hestation like that in normal "D" mode (not using launch control)?
Despite all of the people whinging about delays on take-off, I reckon I can fit into small gaps in traffic...
So first off, I'll echo everyone else's opinion so far and say: don't get the Tiida. When I was a student, I used to drive an N16 Nissan Pulsar which is very similar to the Tiida. It was a...
Could well be that too. My last car was a Focus XR5 which (until it was written off after a hail storm) for all its faults had slightly sharper handling than my Golf and a beautiful 5-cylinder engine...
I've had my Stage1 tune for over a month now and the only times it's felt like it was "dropping out" of tune was in the first week after I had it done. Very odd. It was 40C in Perth today and it...
My DSG is working perfectly - 8 months and 11500km of no weird behaviour at all. The only slightly odd thing was when it changed from 2nd down to 1st when going WOT at low speeds in S mode - made a...
When I was in the UK a couple of months ago, most of the Mk6 Golfs I noticed were diesel, with lots of 90TSIs (single red "I" - so turbo only, not twincharged) and a few GTIs. I don't think I saw a...
I've been noticing something similar, although not as consistent or as frequently as "every 4th time". When I first noticed it, I thought it might have been that the car was forgetting what...
Congrats! I reckon you'll love the DSG for the long commute. Should we be taking bets about how long you'll have the GTI for before getting an APR flash done? ;)
Hi FG! :perth: Sick of your XR5 already?!
Perhaps this is off-topic, but I bought a Skoda recently. Pretty sure nobody else in the forum has one like it...
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I dunno Stoney, I have a 118TSI with the sports pack and the handling is good, but definitely not worthy of a GTI badge. I'd say that compared to my old Focus XR5, the ride comfort is about the...
I'm thinking that what I saw was just heat-related. The car was great this morning but relatively lethargic again in the afternoon. Suppose that if the intercooler can only just cope with >35C...
I had mine done at Quattro Motors yesterday. I got all of the APR programmes included for the normal price - not sure if it's a promotional offer or a change in policy or what.
The good news:...
Amusingly, one of my complaints is the opposite of yours: I often find that the fan speed is a couple of clicks faster than I'd prefer when I first get into the car on a warm day.
Allowing some...
I've found 24 to be a comfortable setting too. This seemed higher than I remember having it set to when I'd been in other cars with climate control, where 21-22 felt natural, but I haven't tried...
Like most diesels, the GTD sounded great right up until I heard the price. The performance and fuel economy is only slightly better than the 118TSI but the price is barely any less than the GTI. ...
Move to WA, there's no restrictions on what P-platers can drive here ;)
The BMW is the only one of these that seems even remotely comparable to a Golf. I can't imagine any of the others being anywhere near as satisfying to drive. FWIW you're fortunate in where you live...
Yeah, the beige leather looks tops. The demonstrator I test-drove had it, and made the car feel a lot brighter inside. The only weird thing that's evident in that photo is that the headlight...
Generally I agree with (and have always been told) the "brakes to slow, gears for go" school of thought. When driving a manual I shift down through all the gears until (usually) coming to a stop in...
Interestingly, mine has a lower revision number to yours, and a different part number and component: ESP MK60EC1 H30 0107 | 1K0 907 379 AJ | 00H30001. That's on a Feb 2010 build. My coding string...
Ah, gotcha! Tried that in mine tonight and see what you mean.
Of course, in the process of playing around with manual mode and listening more carefully to engine noise with the stereo off I also...
Yeah, I wouldn't mind if the whining and whistling was more clearly audible, the TSI's a bit characterless with the windows up. There's no squeal noise here either.
What causes the exhaust...