Just dropped through to say hello to everyone, been a visitor to the site for quite a while now but only just got round to setting up an account and introducing myself mainly due to the fact that recently I purchased myself a cheeky GTI.
So here's a little background on myself, Names Ashley but most of my friends call me Rumple (Don't ask
) 22 years young and from Sunny Dartford in Kent! been into my cars from quite a young age and when I finally was able to get myself a ride after passing my test there was only one affordable choice a little black MK4 Golf 1.4
absolute dog to drive and slow as a sh*t but I fell in love with her and the car quickly grew a character of its own, as much as I slate her now she did me well and put up with quite abit of abuse
it didn't take me long to have a fiddle and once I started I knew I caught the Vdub bug!
Here she is, halfway through a journey to Amsterdam (She did the trip 3times in total)
But after two years and abit years, a few insurance quotes and a change of career I figured out that I could make the change happen and had my eyes set on a MK5 GTI!
Initially I was convinced I wanted to get a DSG version but after a couple of weeks skimming various forums including your own, I was so mixed minded about the issues surrounding reliability and costs to repair that I decided if I did get one and the worst happened I would kick myself so hard that it wasn't worth the risk, so I started looking for a manual model a week or two later I found the one!
A 2005 Volkswagen Golf GTI 2.0 TFSi 3-door In black.
Pretty much as it was out the factory except a stage-1 remap which unfortunately the seller didn't know too much about
Leather interior, heated seats, parking sensors , satnav & Sunroof yadayada the list goes on!
Here she is!
Number plates interesting I know, the guy was gonna buy a MK5 R32 and bought the number plate before he did and then ended up getting the very non-V6 GTI aha.
Needless to say I instantly fell in love with the power and the ride of the mk5 they seemed to have really hit the nail with the way it drives especially compared to the mk4.
she didn't come without her problems though, having nothing to compare it too led to me not realising that it was down on power but after a visit to forum member Dokez and some live readings taken he informed me that the most likely reason for the loss in boost was the DV that VW revised on the later models, so a quick trip to beadles was in order to pick up a replacement and sure enough when we took it out the rubber was completely perished, hopped back in and took some more readings all was in order but I was blown away in the difference aha having only just got my head around the change initially to be taken aback again was a real shock! and needless to say again I was even more in love with her!
So there we are a short synopsis of Rumple, Sorry if I've bored you at all with my post just wanted to give some background
Looking forward to getting involved with community and getting my hands dirty
Yours truly,
Ashley
