What a car!

MateyGuv · Post by **MateyGuv** » Tue Dec 25, 2007 3:36 pm

Made the journey from London to Chester on sunday to see my folks for Christmas. Dont normally get to drive my car at anything over 60 mph so was actually looking forward to the drive. It started off bad as the fog was awful coming out of London, the traffic wasnt too good either. Was a bit worried that I'd miss the fog lights I ditched when I fitted the Cup bumper, but the HID's just cut through the fog without a problem. When I got past Watford Gap it all eased up though. The car cruises without even thinking about it at motorway speeds and for those overtaking moments it pulled like a train - what a rush! Ended up in a convoy of cars, two BMW's and a Golf MK5 GT. We were cruising along really well, we came off the motorway onto a private road (hmmmm), and wound the cars up. At 130, according to my dials anyway, I lost my bottle and found I had pulled away from all the other cars. My little Polo felt solid and like it still had a bit left in it. Ended up getting 28.1 MPG which suprised me a bit as I wasnt exactly taking it easy LOL Going back tomorrow so looking forward to that drive too

Hope everyone has had a great Christmas!!!

Post by **alexperkins** » Tue Dec 25, 2007 5:04 pm

good man

be careful not to push it past 135 tho - it can get recorded in the ecu, and void warranty

Sounds like you had a rush to say the least!

KennyPOLO_Gti · Post by **KennyPOLO_Gti** » Tue Dec 25, 2007 7:11 pm

U got a remap on yer car?

MateyGuv · Post by **MateyGuv** » Tue Dec 25, 2007 8:58 pm

Got ARP remap last year at Awesome

Post by **alexperkins** » Tue Dec 25, 2007 11:09 pm

stage 1?

Jeff GTi · Post by **Jeff GTi** » Wed Dec 26, 2007 12:25 am

will be alex, they dont do further than stage 1 at the min

MateyGuv · Post by **MateyGuv** » Wed Dec 26, 2007 8:51 am

Yes, Stage 1. They did offer me a normal unleaded or a super unleaded programme

Post by **alexperkins** » Wed Dec 26, 2007 9:40 am

Jeff GTi wrote:will be alex, they dont do further than stage 1 at the min

lol never knew that cheers jeff

bramley · Post by **bramley** » Wed Dec 26, 2007 10:02 am

there is no way that going 135 can void your warranty, what if you were taking it round a track ????

Post by **alexperkins** » Wed Dec 26, 2007 10:12 am

It has happened. We had an R32 in and a Polo GTI the other week. Both had been taken over 135mph and it was registered in the ecu as warranty void.

Whether or not it can happen in all the polo GTIs is another question, but its better to be safe than sorry. Though that is a physical speed, so youd have to probs be doing 140 by the speedo for that to happen.

MateyGuv · Post by **MateyGuv** » Wed Dec 26, 2007 11:03 am

The ECU can record all sorts of things these days and wouldnt surprise me if it did record speeds so VW can avoid warrenty pay outs. I will be following Alex's advice, better safe than sorry and all that. Well until the warrenty runs out anyway. I wonder how much of the warrenty is still valid on my car anyway

bramley · Post by **bramley** » Wed Dec 26, 2007 1:57 pm

so why would they void a warranty for doing a speed that your car is meant to be capable of doing safely, you may aswell limit the car to 70 if there gonna be cocks about it, i dnt think they can do that at all

Post by **alexperkins** » Wed Dec 26, 2007 2:04 pm

Lol they can do as they please unfortunately - at the end of the day, they make the car and they have to cover themselves against somewhat 'dangerous driving'

david burton · Post by **david burton** » Wed Dec 26, 2007 3:18 pm

flat out for 10 minutes could destroy most cars anyway. not surprised they would do this "limit".

it's not in the design frame, they could easily argue it but I would say they would need to tell you (not in the small print).

if you sat on your drive and redlined it until the engine blew then I can see VWs argument, it's the same sort of thing really.

anyhow, anyone doing 130 off the motorway deserves to lose their licence.

bramley · Post by **bramley** » Wed Dec 26, 2007 3:45 pm

thats why i said on a track not road, you can do 130 before you redline anyway, its a totally different argument, whats the point in buildin a car to do 130 and then voiding a warranty for anyone who does it?