Should we sell a MY13 GTI and get a MY16 Polo?

[Lucas_R]

Surely a MY13 is worth more than $16k, especially with such low km's. I'll be selling mine in the next 12 months if things go to plan and mines MY10 with 80,000km on it and ill be wanting $20k ish for it. Sell it privately or the dealer will rape you on price.

Golf cabriolet have the 1.4L twincharge engine don't they.....if so id run in the opposite direction. Run even faster if its got the 7 speed DSG.

Getting the engine tuned won't fix anything - you need to fix the root cause. Have you tried a thicker oil (5w-40 Penrite Enviro+) to see if that helps (many have reported that it does help slow down the oil use). Otherwise you may need new pistons/piston rings which a work colleague needed in her Audi a few years back (same engine as the GTI) as her engine used more oil than it did petrol.

Another thing to try is this oil stabiliser from Liqui-Moly. A few people have reported that this also does help reduce/stop oil consumption. Might be worth a try Liqui Moly Viscoplus FOR OIL 300ml German Technology Visco Plus 8958 | eBay

[nat225]

Surely a MY13 is worth more than $16k, especially with such low km's. I'll be selling mine in the next 12 months if things go to plan and mines MY10 with 80,000km on it and ill be wanting $20k ish for it. Sell it privately or the dealer will rape you on price.

Golf cabriolet have the 1.4L twincharge engine don't they.....if so id run in the opposite direction. Run even faster if its got the 7 speed DSG.

Getting the engine tuned won't fix anything - you need to fix the root cause. Have you tried a thicker oil (5w-40 Penrite Enviro+) to see if that helps (many have reported that it does help slow down the oil use). Otherwise you may need new pistons/piston rings which a work colleague needed in her Audi a few years back (same engine as the GTI) as her engine used more oil than it did petrol.

Another thing to try is this oil stabiliser from Liqui-Moly. A few people have reported that this also does help reduce/stop oil consumption. Might be worth a try Liqui Moly Viscoplus FOR OIL 300ml German Technology Visco Plus 8958 | eBay

think you are mixed up between my13 polo gti value and your golf gti.

[Lucas_R]

think you are mixed up between my13 polo gti value and your golf gti.

My apologies - you are right....i assumed he was looking to trade a MY13 Golf GTI.

In that case, trade it and run. That engine (1.4 twincharge) and DSG gearbox are ticking time bombs. Grab the face lifted version with the 1.8T engine and manual gearbox.