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Offline suave

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Power retention?
« on: January 27, 2012, 09:10:58 pm »
After reading recent thread about driving your car very little is it also a case of the GTI losing power as it gets older?

Does a higher mileage example not have it's initial/intended bhp and does it lose performance?

I do tend to keep my Golfs a few years and tot the miles up with daily driver.

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Re: Power retention?
« Reply #1 on: January 27, 2012, 09:22:32 pm »
Mines an 05plate GTI on 64k and was running 194.7bhp on the rolling road in October so mine hasn't lost anything at all. Got another one in 2 weeks so find out if there's any difference then
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Re: Power retention?
« Reply #2 on: January 27, 2012, 09:25:23 pm »
Glad to hear - mine is also 05 and I hope it's still fit as yours.

Btw your rear badge looks great - is it colour coded??
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Re: Power retention?
« Reply #3 on: January 27, 2012, 10:00:17 pm »
Mines an 05 plate as well with over 115k on the clock,  last time on the RR it made 340bhp.  So ive gained 140bhp over the last 7 years :laugh:  Still on the original clutch as well  :happy2:
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Re: Power retention?
« Reply #4 on: January 27, 2012, 10:32:30 pm »
A properly maintained / looked after GTI engine should live to see big mileage (probably 200+k miles). Only when the mileage gets up there do you need to worry about losing power.  :happy2:
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Re: Power retention?
« Reply #5 on: January 28, 2012, 02:48:36 pm »
Quote from: suave on January 27, 2012, 09:25:23 pm
Glad to hear - mine is also 05 and I hope it's still fit as yours.

Btw your rear badge looks great - is it colour coded??

Thanks :happy2: Yeah it's the later style MK5 one which I took apart and sprayed.

It should be, as said above as long as its looked after all should be fine
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