Fairly new here, been lurking for a few months asking questions. Bought my early GTi last month after looking for a few months.
Standard spec: 3 door, tornado red, leather, xenons, mfd2, folding mirrors, highline.
How I bought it:
Driving home I soon realised it wasn't as nippy as it should be. It was the first mk5 gti I had driven, but coming from a mk4 gti with 221bhp I knew it wasn't 200bhp. Also the idle was irratic.Luckily I have a close friend who is a VW master tech, so the folowing week it was scanned with there laptop computer. A few faults came up, one pointing towards the PCV valve.
Also as it was a very early car there was a note about the air filter being the incorrect shape to fit the housing. I also knew the standard DV wasn't up to much so bought the upgraded TSi version. The PCV valve was fitted a couple of day's later which didn't fix the fault. A few days later the air filter and DV were fitted and we were cooking on gas!
Car now pull's well athough still not like the old mk4 did. Bluefin will be added when funds permit.
Last week the car went into the bodyshop as the were quite a few nasty stonechips on the bonnet. At the same time I bought an ED30 front splitter and asked for the skirts and rear to be smoothed and painted, with the grill, and lower sections of both bumpers to be painted satin black.
Here is the result:
Next on the list of mod's is wheel's as the mozas really don't do it much justice. After this I need a set of r32 rear lights, maybe a small drop and then the bluefin
Thats it for now, will try and keep it this updated as I go.
Cheers, Sam