New 9n3 GTI Owner

[Gillzy]

Hey guys,

Picking up a VW Polo 9n3 GTI (Silver) with 75k on the clock on Wednesday/Thursday and am pretty excited! Previous VW's Ive owned is a 00' Polo 16V and a 98' VR6 Golf.

First up will be a service (No stamps from 50k)
Tune
Headunit
Exhaust

I'll throw some photos up when I take delivery!
No sunroof though ..

Cheers,
Aiden

[h100vw]

Hey guys,

Picking up a VW Polo 9n3 GTI (Silver) with 75k on the clock on Wednesday/Thursday and am pretty excited! Previous VW's Ive owned is a 00' Polo 16V and a 98' VR6 Golf.

First up will be a service (No stamps from 50k)
Tune
Headunit
Exhaust

I'll throw some photos up when I take delivery!
No sunroof though ..

Cheers,
Aiden

Welcome to the forum Aiden.

You should consider the downpipe before the exhaust, unless you meant TBE. Some improvements in the mid range from the earlier spool to be capitalised on.

Gavin

[Gillzy]

Thanks for the advice Gavin,

Would you recommend a GIAC (family member can flash for me) or APR tune? Or am I opening a can of worms here?

Also besides from APR, anywhere else you can buy a prefabbed downpipe or better to custom fab? (2.5 or 3.0?)

[seangti]

Would you recommend a GIAC (family member can flash for me) or APR tune? Or am I opening a can of worms here?

Looking forward to Gavin's response

Gavin is the supplier of Custom Code, which is an after market tune in the same manner as APR and GIAC.

You can get prefabbed down pipes or go custom. I expect they come back to similar money. Miltek make a down pipe too, not sure who else for prefabbed ones.

PS. Welcome.


Edit - arghh, gavin beat me.

[h100vw]

Can't recommend either of those tunes Aiden. I am a Custom-Code dealer. I wouldn't do APR on cost alone though. Optimum Code - Serial Port Chip Technology - Home

I'd get a downpipe made and go 3 inch, Also, I'd advise replacing the dogbone bush. Have a read though my cheapy thread. Lots of upgrades in there to blow your money on.

Gavin

[Gillzy]

Thanks boys will do!

did just read about the ECU's in the 09's (The year mine is), is their any chance you know by looking at the ECU/VINE determining wither it's OBD flashable or not ?

[h100vw]

Thanks boys will do!

did just read about the ECU's in the 09's (The year mine is), is their any chance you know by looking at the ECU/VINE determining wither it's OBD flushable or not ?

All 9N3 GTIs are OBD flashable, I also have a bench lead for the ME7 ECU type. So I can do postal tunes.. It's the ME17 series that are locked up.

Bench flash looks the same as this.
MK4 Golf GTI and 8L A3 Turbo with ME3.8 ECU. No ECU's opened during this tune up

Gavin

[Gillzy]

Good to know. Was worried as mine is a 12/2009. Gav I'll pm you in a few weeks in regards to a tune and some other ideas, once I've got all the maintenance out of the way. Cheers for all the info!

I am based in Melbourne though, so does that make things difficult?


Some snaps of the car!

[louis19]

Good to know. Was worried as mine is a 12/2009. Gav I'll pm you in a few weeks in regards to a tune and some other ideas, once I've got all the maintenance out of the way. Cheers for all the info!

I am based in Melbourne though, so does that make things difficult?


Some snaps of the car!

Looks good mate! Joining team silver As for the tune, go Custom Code, Gav does a great job and think you'll struggle to find anyone on here who wouldn't vouge for his work and how helpful he is. Recently had my Phase 2 tune done through Gav and really happy with the outcome

[Gillzy]

now looking for a digital readout gauge for volts/oil/etc to cover it and mount it (similar shape to the Parrot unit).
I am thinking about purchasing a BLITZ R-VIT/TOUCH BRAIN and was wondering if it was compatible.. That or I will be getting a new dash because I am overly meticulous about such things :/

Also NSP Vent Pod and Gauge ordered !