Bye Bye Polo :(
Bye Bye Polo :(
Well, my Polo GTI is getting traded in tomorrow
Getting a Golf GTD instead. I need a bigger car as the Polo is too small for me to use for transporting everything I need for track days. Plus I've started doing a lot more miles than when I got the car so hopefully the GTD should be a bit nicer on my wallet!
Oil consumption issues were starting to come back despite the oil breather pipe upgrade (1 litre+ in the last 700 miles ). It's still much more fun than the Golf to drive, makes a nicer noise and is a fair bit quicker. I'll miss it! Thanks for all the useful info from this forum too
Hopefully I'll be back in a Polo when the R or WRC finally come out
Getting a Golf GTD instead. I need a bigger car as the Polo is too small for me to use for transporting everything I need for track days. Plus I've started doing a lot more miles than when I got the car so hopefully the GTD should be a bit nicer on my wallet!
Oil consumption issues were starting to come back despite the oil breather pipe upgrade (1 litre+ in the last 700 miles ). It's still much more fun than the Golf to drive, makes a nicer noise and is a fair bit quicker. I'll miss it! Thanks for all the useful info from this forum too
Hopefully I'll be back in a Polo when the R or WRC finally come out
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I'm going in the same direction, let me know how you get on with the GTD.
Did you buy a new GTD?
Did you buy a new GTD?
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It's 6 months old. 5 door (hate the 5 doors but need them for practicality). Metallic grey with black leather. Manual, winter pack, RNS510, cruise control, bluetooth and a few other extras.stuart.cameron wrote:I'm going in the same direction, let me know how you get on with the GTD.
Did you buy a new GTD?
Took one on a test drive, they're not exactly slow, but it doesn't feel as fast as it's very quiet and only revs to 5k. The Polo feels much faster. A remap may be on the cards - 170bhp/350nm to 215bhp/400+nm! Might make things a bit more interesting
I'll post up more of a review when I've driven it a bit more
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Very good. Turns out I cant insure a 3 door but the 5 doors fine.... Strange haha.George H wrote:It's 6 months old. 5 door (hate the 5 doors but need them for practicality). Metallic grey with black leather. Manual, winter pack, RNS510, cruise control, bluetooth and a few other extras.stuart.cameron wrote:I'm going in the same direction, let me know how you get on with the GTD.
Did you buy a new GTD?
Took one on a test drive, they're not exactly slow, but it doesn't feel as fast as it's very quiet and only revs to 5k. The Polo feels much faster. A remap may be on the cards - 170bhp/350nm to 215bhp/400+nm! Might make things a bit more interesting
I'll post up more of a review when I've driven it a bit more
I'm after an automatic one Remap does sound very interesting, go have a look at the Milltek exhaust for it, 3" dual tail pipes
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Good luck mate
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New car sounds beautiful. Good luck with it!
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good luck id love a gtd
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Yes - good luck mate.
My patience is wearing thin with repeated visits to the dealer, phone calls, emails, time wasted and so on for the oil consumption issue.
Hopefully I will have some form of resolution soon.
My patience is wearing thin with repeated visits to the dealer, phone calls, emails, time wasted and so on for the oil consumption issue.
Hopefully I will have some form of resolution soon.
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Cheersskipster wrote:Yes - good luck mate.
My patience is wearing thin with repeated visits to the dealer, phone calls, emails, time wasted and so on for the oil consumption issue.
Hopefully I will have some form of resolution soon.
I was getting sick with the problems of the GTI. A great little car but hampered by all the little issues. I hope you get all yours sorted
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Some quick pictures of the new car.
God it seems dull to drive in comparison to the Polo. I think it's due to the lack of noise. A lot comfier ride too, definitely less hard than the Polo. Not sure if that's a good thing or not Better on long journeys, but much less fun when pushing down a good B road.
Averaged 53mpg so far which is brilliant, only got 35 average from the Polo. The leather interior is much better than the Polo's tartan cloth one imo. I love the rear LED lights too
So basically for the people considering a change to a GTD, they're good, but nowhere near as sporty as the GTI. I can feel an upgrade to a Golf R coming on next year (if I can find somewhere to do a towbar for one, those central exhausts make it difficult but can be done apparently)
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Very nice car
Surprised the oil consumption thing ain't been on watchdog yet
Surprised the oil consumption thing ain't been on watchdog yet
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nice best colour as well
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very smart a nice compromise between sportiness and sensibility
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Cheers, I can't help but feel it's too far into the 'sensibility' category though!Match wrote:very smart a nice compromise between sportiness and sensibility
I drove past a car dealer near me today which had this in the showroom - http://www.autotrader.co.uk/classified/ ... code=ucnnp
Now I keep thinking of changing it!
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Stick with the GTD- It really is a great compromise imo.George H wrote:Cheers, I can't help but feel it's too far into the 'sensibility' category though!Match wrote:very smart a nice compromise between sportiness and sensibility
I drove past a car dealer near me today which had this in the showroom - http://www.autotrader.co.uk/classified/ ... code=ucnnp
Now I keep thinking of changing it!