Mine is @86500k with a st2+ map on and I'm usuing cheap eurocarparts 5/40 triple qx oil which I used in my TT for 55000k miles and again no issues with the engine at all. Yes people will say I'm a cheap skate but I'm not racing my car around like a nutter on a track even so can't complain about it.
An engine will last with whatever you use as long as you don't over step the mark!.
I change oil and filter every 6k because I'm such an a*al c*** 
but well worth the £13.40p I spend 
The actual speed the car can handle when. Rams new out the showroom and not 10-12years down the line but that's questionable and irrelevant to the issue at hand.
That's why I say money down the drain and just buy a new engine as it'll cost a lot more stripping searching and fitting new parts 
The guys they’re currently working with two engines to get the best out of both 👍🏽 No harm in dissecting and stripping down in the process and finding the what’s at fault is what I had meant. I’m not doing a pesky checking and that is just waste of time. I knew from the off when my car ceased on road it was “the death”, a famous termilogy the Oldskool mechanic golf like to use. I feel like this thread will go down as a lesson to many to learn from! I hope so
I totally agree that 10 year old car like mine would give in at some point. The performance was fab but At no time did I expect the worst ! Yikes!
My point is if you wanna go down a track then take the R. Don’t choke the GTI. That’s not a track car imo. GTI is a practical car that will last no more than ten years. That’s why there are cars come out very 4-5 years with new ideas of motoring in reshaping these vehicles that we adore so much when driving them on the road in telling us “they’re better and more efficient and by the way.. they’re a bit more nippier too.” 🤐 Hmmm.. are they really?? The VW emmisons bypass scandal comes to mind 🤔. If it didn’t work in this way then the motoring market would collapse. It’s all about reinventing new ideas.. in marketing newer better brands.Hence We all want our cars to live forever.. some DO last a very long time and I do accept that - some more than others in fact. But in reality it is pure romanticism and a fantasy we all wish to believe close to our hearts my friend.
They stopped manufacturing and producing the MK5 was too expensive to keep on the shelf for VW. Well you only have to see the MK7 to see the plastic tin on that beaut Fully designed car. We were told the MK6 was faster than a MK5. But you would only need to Remap a MK5 GTI under the Stage One software hat would reinvent the MK5 that would be just as quick as the MK6 if not quicker! And whose to say the MK6 is better looking than the the MK5. Not at all. Yuck!
The reason we now have more MK7 R’s on the road than ever before is because we are working with a 2.0T engine and it is for this reason we believe in the efficient “model” in the sale.
But then again Pudding would say there are many ways of burning air/fuel mixture. True but bypassing the process is not the way and rather scandalous.
I now realise there are flaws with the MK5 2.0T FSI and maybe these were deliberate and rather clumsy designing so that there can make way for “New and improved ideas” a-ha!
Though I feel disillusioned with the MK5 2.0T GTI, my biggest disappointment is the very hostile and reluctant Canbus that u have to deal with in this car e.g. aftermarket leds are forever blinking both inside and outside of the car as soon as you turn the key, battery drains with aftermarket head units, errors flagged on dash to name but a few. Did the guys at VW HQ really think they were getting away with such a grand design without giving the headlamps with bi-xenon head/side/parking lights? No way!
