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Mats Mk6 - Tornado Red GTi - Detailing and mods

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matmk5:
Hello all!

After three happy years with my Mk5 2006 GTi, I made the mistake of swapping to a sensible economical 2015 Ford Focus Zetec S… predictably after less than two months I was utterly bored to tears and despite it costing a small fortune swapping cars again so soon I’m now back in a GTi!

It took me six weeks of hunting to find the perfect car, 2010 Mk6 bought from JCT600 main dealer in Bradford 3 weeks ago, just 1 owner from new, only 56k miles, FVWSH with 9 stamps in the book all from same dealer. Climate, unmarked heated leather, front and rear sensors, 2 year’s warranty, absolutely mint inside and out.

Unfortunately, a few days after I got it home I found a couple of big issues, the aircon pump was very noisy and the clutch intermittently made the dreaded ‘throw out bearing’ whooping noise when reversing uphill under load.  Returned it to the dealer with a description of the faults and I have to say the service team at JCT600 were fantastic, no quibbling, took the car back, kept me up to date with progress, loan car provided and after 5 days ready to collect.... full new air con pump fitted, new condenser fitted, complete new clutch kit installed with DMF and bearing also replaced, I mentioned what looked like a leak on the main boost pipe so they swapped it with a full new unit.... just under £3k of work with parts and labour!  Genuinely delighted with the service, fully expected a long drawn out wrangle, especially with the clutch issue as it was working just noisy but nothing of the sort and the car is now perfect.

As soon as I got it back I headed off to Midland VW to get the timing chain tensioner updated to the latest ‘K’ revision, I want to enjoy driving the car without the worry of it imploding lol so for me it’s worth every penny for the peace of mind… highly recommend Midland VW, very professional, £350 all in with a new lower cover and sealant, all done while I waited with no fuss.

It came with standard 17” Monzas so I have picked up a shiny new set of 18" Santiago's this week which I love the look of and then fitted them with new Uniroyal Rainsport 3’s all round, the grip difference is ridiculous!

A few more modifications planned, as you can see from my old Mk5 at the bottom I prefer to keep the OEM look but would like to drop it a few CM’s so I will update as I go along.


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Ohh and this is how it looked when I picked it up a few weeks ago.

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This is my old MK5 GTi.... does anyone here have it or know where it is now? :-)

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prp74:
Looking good. Nice little MK7 touches. Santiago's suit the car  :happy2:

gttdigoof:
good choice, nice looking GTI

peter_booker2003:
Superb choice. Looks a stunner too.

Must be local to me as i use Midland VW too. Can't fault the service and always well priced. Mine was only in last week for the Cam chain and Tensioner too.

I'm based Stafford side if you every fancy a meet up etc.  :happy2:

matmk5:
Thanks all, much appreciated  :smiley:

Cheers Peter, I'm about an hours drive from Midland VW (I'm right on the Notts/Derbyshire boarder) there's plenty of closer specialists to me but when I spoke with Jody on the phone he clearly knew exactly what he was talking about so decided it was worth the run over... will definitely use them in he future.  :smiley:

Hoping to get to a few shows this year as its been a while so will give you a shout if your heading down too  :happy2:

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