GTI engine note overpowering?

[DonkeyKong]

Received my GTI today. I am smiling all the way home. The car engine drown the sound system. The sporty note of the engine would destroys your enjoyment of music. For the owner of Dynaudio upgrade, what is your experience?

[MurphyTheElf]

The difference is the music now destroys my enjoyment of the engine. :P

[Yevvy]

oh no, not the engine ruining the music!!! :P

[iBoost]

This thread needs more pics. ;)

[nau]

This thread needs more pics. ;)
with faces of disappointed owners ?

[G-rig]

You wouldn't need to turn the music up that loud before you can't hear the engine..

The gti sounds cool anyway and not really that noisy??

[mfl]

maybe my GTI is a little different, but its extremely quiet, and discreet,
no problems with engine drowning out the music,

in fact I wish it had a little bit more character to its note.

[iBoost]

Admittedly I've only driven the GTI once on my test drive. It had a nice engine note to it, but certainly not over the top. Not enough to drown out music anyway.

Maybe you need to elaborate a bit more. Did your car come with an APR exhaust from the factory? :P

[MkVIGTI]

I assume you had the windows down the whole time you took the long way home? :P

[Corey_R]

Maybe he's driving a MKV and the exhaust has fallen off?
Or maybe he hasn't found the volume control for the stereo yet. I too haven't spent a lot of time in the MK6 yet, but I fail to see how I'd be possible for the engine to drown out the stereo! hehe

[G-rig]

I had a milltek on the R32 and that didn't even drown out the stereo (admittedly after market stereo too but never felt i needed it that loud).

[DonkeyKong]

OK folks, just got home. I know, its mid-night. I guess this is the first sporty car I have driven. Previous cars was Merc ML and was driving my wife's XC60 T6 until today. The turbo in the Volvo was quiet unless I floored it. The GTI seems to have this humming noise that I guess I have to get use to. I actually enjoying the car with the stereo system off. This car is indeed sweet and seems to reach 100km very quickly :P

[nau]

OK folks, just got home. I know, its mid-night. I guess this is the first sporty car I have driven. Previous cars was Merc ML and was driving my wife's XC60 T6 until today. The turbo in the Volvo was quiet unless I floored it. The GTI seems to have this humming noise that I guess I have to get use to. I actually enjoying the car with the stereo system off. This car is indeed sweet and seems to reach 100km very quickly :P
WHAT!? u gone have to speak up cant hear ya!??? turbo is too loud !???? :banana:

[G-rig]

OK folks, just got home. I know, its mid-night. I guess this is the first sporty car I have driven. Previous cars was Merc ML and was driving my wife's XC60 T6 until today. The turbo in the Volvo was quiet unless I floored it. The GTI seems to have this humming noise that I guess I have to get use to. I actually enjoying the car with the stereo system off. This car is indeed sweet and seems to reach 100km very quickly :P

The DSG fart/pop is a cool sound, i'd prob like listening to the car than to the stock stereo ;).

Sounds like you should do an aftermarket stereo upgrade if music is of importance.. My setup was high end and the difference was amazing.

[Corey_R]

So now we've established that this thread has nothing to do with the sound system, DonkeyKong, do you wanna suggest a better name? Otherwise I'll rename it myself :)

I'm thinking "GTI engine note overpowering ?" or something like that.

[DonkeyKong]

coreying, I can see that you have been promoted to Moderator or maybe I was a poor observer. I agree that the title should be changed and be my guess. I finally have gone through the boring user manual. It was challenging.

[G-rig]

The mk6 have better sound insulation than mk5 too, so don't really see the problem?? Just go some after market speakers, amps and sub and prob fixed.

[flappa]

The DSG fart/pop is EXACTLY why I'm purchasing a GTI. Sound system carefactor . . . . zero.

[G-rig]

It's good to have both kinds of noise ideally.

[markwid]

The mk6 have better sound insulation than mk5 too, so don't really see the problem??

Agreed.

I think some folks would say that the mk5 engine sounds better than the mk6 (less insulation in mk5 might have something to do with it and perhaps the mk5 engine is also a bit more aggressive).

[Orient Express]

I'm surprised that no has mentioned that the GTI has engineered acceleration noise built into it.

There is a noise pipe that has an opening down by the turbo, and goes up over the side of the engine through a vacuum actuated valve, and into the cabin.

You can disable the noise by either removing the open signal to the valve or removing the tube all together and replacing the firewall gasket with one from a regular golf.

Here is a picture of the block off gasket looks like:

http://www.futrellautowerks.com/images/mk5blockoff.jpg

Pull out the noise pipe, plug the firewall with this gasket, and enjoy quiet motoring.

Here is what all of the pipe parts look like:

http://www.vwwatercooled.com.au/forums/images/imported/2010/03/NP001-1.jpg

[nau]

You can disable the noise by either removing the open signal to the valve or removing the tube all together and replacing the firewall gasket with one from a regular golf.

or just get a ToYoTa :)

[Corey_R]

Great post Orient Express! Thanks :)

[Guy_H]

I'm surprised that no has mentioned that the GTI has engineered acceleration noise built into it.

There is a noise pipe that has an opening down by the turbo, and goes up over the side of the engine through a vacuum actuated valve, and into the cabin.

You can disable the noise by either removing the open signal to the valve or removing the tube all together and replacing the firewall gasket with one from a regular golf.

Here is a picture of the block off gasket looks like:

http://www.vwwatercooled.com.au/forums/

Pull out the noise pipe, plug the firewall with this gasket, and enjoy quiet motoring.

Here is what all of the pipe parts look like:

http://www.vwwatercooled.com.au/forums/images/imported/2010/03/NP001-1.jpg

Unfortunately its a US only thing, the AUS spec cars dont have a "noise pipe"

The new RSC exhaust gets the noise you want!

[Corey_R]

I'll have to check out one of these RSC exhausts when I get my R (if VWA bring in 3 door models that is).

[Orient Express]

Unfortunately its a US only thing, the AUS spec cars dont have a "noise pipe"

well, that explains that....

[iBoost]

Yeah never knew that either. The GTI I drove had a nice deep note for a standard car which I liked.

I'll be checking out the RSC exhaust down the track once I've received my car. Would love to hear one in person, youtube videos can only tell you so much.