Ollie, if you have K04, IE Edition 30/Pirelli (I haven't read thread) then swap out is 10 min job, piece of piss mate.
If you're normal GTI (K03) then more involved but not hard; at all. After sorting location (different for each) it's 3 Allen bolts and a loom plug 
Cheers Scottymon

I might as well let them do it I reckon as they check it beforehand anyway. It's a standard GTI- the only thing that was different today was I had the front windows open so maybe I just heard the whistling where as I couldn't before? I took it out just now and it seems to be accelerating fine now so maybe I was convincing myself about the 'thrust'? I don't know- it was a long day working outside in the sun...
