Crout's Tornado GTi

[Zipupurmickey]

So I picked this up back in October, it was a impulse buy over coffee with one of my good mates who was the second owner of the car with only 121k km. He had owned it for the past 3 years and only racked up a mer 10k Km during his ownership. He's away at sea for half the year so the car was driven rarely and garaged every night. I always wanted to scratch the Mk5 itch. So the deal was done and I collected the car the following week. I am absolutely delighted with it, drives superb, it ticks a lot of boxes for me. The car is a 2006 AXX Tornado Red GTi, completely standard bar the wheels and Parrot hands free kit.

The car spec is by no means epic compared to some of the cars on here, my plan was to keep it standard(ish) and just keep her maintained and fresh.

Spec:
Usual GTi extras
Genuine 18" Bbs Ch's
6 speed man
Leather heated seats
Sun roof
Factory aero wipers
Blue tinted glass all round
Passenger mirror tilt when in reverse
Heated mirrors
Midline display
Auto lights
Auto wipers
Auto dim mirror
Cup holders
Iso fix
Tpms
I'm sure there's more but no point in boring you with a list of extras that most GTi's came with anyway.

Here's the car



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[Zipupurmickey]

I kept the car standard apart from a Parrot hands free kit and just gave it the usual care.

The modding bug didn't stay buried for long, this GTi came to my attention about two weeks ago and it was only 15 minutes up the road from me, it had a knackered bottom end but with a breathtaking spec, I thought if I transferred all the extras into mine and break the rest to make some of the money back surely it would be worth while. So I had the car home the following day.




So the bits I have transferred over are,

Genuine xenon headlights
Rns510 with aux button beside traction control
R32 front and back brakes with braided lines
Turbo back Milltek with sports cat
Forge fmic with piping
Evolution V flow intake
H&R cup kit
Power flex wishbones + dog bone mount
Valeo led tail lights
R8 coilpacks and red harness
Dv rev D
Porsche oil cap
Porsche washer fluid cap
Porsche coolant cap
Alu ashtray
GTi seat inserts
Alu GTi dead pedal
Cruise control retro fitted

Next on the cards is a hpfp and a remap from our local guru Joe Power.


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[Zipupurmickey]

How the car sits today,





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[Zipupurmickey]

It's the little things that matter! I might look into doing it black at some stage, but then the GTi badge might stick out.






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[ducman77]

Looking great buddy 

Fellow Dublin based tornado red GTI owner Here!

I have some similar mods to you. Have a set of Valeos waiting to be fitted!

Joe power has worked his majic on my car already (just stage 1). Highly recommended!!

I've fitted a 3in TBE exhaust and ram air intake since I was with him. I've a hpfp and Peron intercooler to get fitted before I head back to him for stage 2 mapping 

Looking forward to keeping an eye on your progress 
Regards,
Dave

[fab5freddy]

Looks great Gerrit, great way to upgrade 

have you got VCDS? Just make sure you disable the cold diagnosis for the rear lights if you didn't already know about it. The Leds don't like the start up process and flicker and burn out quicker

[ducman77]

Looks great Gerrit, great way to upgrade 

have you got VCDS? Just make sure you disable the cold diagnosis for the rear lights if you didn't already know about it. The Leds don't like the start up process and flicker and burn out quicker

What's that about fab5freddy? Will be fitting my Valeos soon and hadn't heard about this cold diagnosis on the VCDS?
Hope you're keeping well mate?
Cheers,
Dave

[StephenMcC]

Love those Valeos, I think I need a set 

[Zipupurmickey]

Thanks for the kind words Dave, I'm looking forward to getting her mapped by Joe, he mapped my old S3 and my current V6 4Mo and he transformed them completely, lovely lad to deal with too. Those bits will make a good difference to your car.

Thanks James, I have Vcds yes but I didn't know about the leds having that issue, I will definitely look into that tomorrow, I appreciate the heads up, Dave if you want yours done I can code them for you too.

I was 50/50 for the first few days Stephen but they've really grown on me, they look very different at night too.






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[fab5freddy]

Looks great Gerrit, great way to upgrade 

have you got VCDS? Just make sure you disable the cold diagnosis for the rear lights if you didn't already know about it. The Leds don't like the start up process and flicker and burn out quicker

What's that about fab5freddy? Will be fitting my Valeos soon and hadn't heard about this cold diagnosis on the VCDS?
Hope you're keeping well mate?
Cheers,
Dave

Yeah, sorry Dave, forgot you were fitting these, if you can't hook up with Gerrit, I can do this for you 

From my understanding the cecm sends pulses out to all the lights if activated to test for bulb outs, it makes the leds flicker and shortens the life span apparently

[Zipupurmickey]

Interesting James, so I need to go into central electrics then and go into long coding to change that? My xenon adapters arrived this morning too so I'll be coding in the shutters today so I'll do both while I'm at it.




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[fab5freddy]

That's it mate, you'll see a big block for the cold diagnosis of all lights, just disable rear lights

[ducman77]

Thanks for the kind words Dave, I'm looking forward to getting her mapped by Joe, he mapped my old S3 and my current V6 4Mo and he transformed them completely, lovely lad to deal with too. Those bits will make a good difference to your car

Cheers buddy. Looking forward to getting all the bits fitted soon. Cheers for the offer of the VCDS coding. I have VCDS, so should be able to get it sorted

That's it mate, you'll see a big block for the cold diagnosis of all lights, just disable rear lights

That's brilliant buddy. Cheers. I'll make sure to do that with mine too. I think VCDS was one of the best purchases I made

[Zipupurmickey]

No problem at all Dave, brilliant bit of kit to have. I've used mine quite a bit now between Drl to coding some of the nifty locked features.

Got the rears sorted today James, didn't actually notice that they did that until I got someone else to start my car earlier while I stood behind.




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[76tow]

Hello new to mk5's...What is a hpfp?

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