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Offline edyGTI

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Newbie
« on: March 08, 2017, 07:33:28 pm »
Hi all.
My names eddie.just signed up today.I bought a 2006 tornado red gti two weeks ago so taught it be stupid not to come on here to get some knowledge.

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Re: Newbie
« Reply #1 on: March 08, 2017, 09:48:58 pm »
Welcome along. Any mods on your GTI?

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Re: Newbie
« Reply #2 on: March 09, 2017, 12:57:24 am »
 :worthless: :worthless:

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Re: Newbie
« Reply #3 on: March 09, 2017, 02:32:31 pm »
Lol yup second that, modding or getting used to standard first then mod ???

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Re: Newbie
« Reply #4 on: March 09, 2017, 11:17:48 pm »
Car is standard at the minute.hoping to mod it as time gos by.planning on a remap soon but first have someone good to remap it.
« Last Edit: March 09, 2017, 11:43:43 pm by edyGTI »

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Re: Newbie
« Reply #5 on: March 10, 2017, 08:40:10 am »
What level.of re-map ?, standard parts "tune up" map or changing uprating parts like injectors turbo etc ??

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Re: Newbie
« Reply #6 on: March 10, 2017, 08:37:06 pm »
Am planning just a "standard part remap" for the time been.
The problem I have is the car feels faster then I was expecting it to be.I owned a jap wrx bugeye a few years ago which was supposedly 245bhp or 265bhp standard and the gti feels as quick.two or three mates have drove it and are of the opinion it's noway sluggish so has it been previously remapped already?
Is there anyway of telling without talking to all the previous owners

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Re: Newbie
« Reply #7 on: March 10, 2017, 10:24:09 pm »
You can check the 0-60 acceleration time. The stopwatch doesn't lie!

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Re: Newbie
« Reply #8 on: March 10, 2017, 10:32:26 pm »
And what is the 0-60 time??

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Re: Newbie
« Reply #9 on: March 11, 2017, 03:25:08 pm »
If you have VCDS there is a 'flash count'.  I did the same for my edition 30.  Mine was not mapped.

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Re: Newbie
« Reply #10 on: March 14, 2017, 08:43:59 am »
Hey man welcome and what a beautiful red GTI, I have had my mk5 GTI for 6 months and did a test on the 0-60 before remap which was on average 6.8 seconds, after the remap i was getting around 5.8 - 6 but this will depend on what tyres you have on because after a remap there is so much torque you just get wheel spin. So if your 0-60 is around 6.8 it's not remapped anything closer to 6 then it will be brother.