Mileage and Age

[andyg]

The GTi coolant temperature guage is a little unreliable.

Give it at least 10 mins before nailing the accelerator.

[azialex]

Y reg, 2001, 42,500

[Del_GTi]

March 2000 W-reg. 49k.

[forbezGti]

i have space age miles on my car. its a 2000 plate, with 92000.

[ModifiedMadness]

Bloody hell, that is a lot, was it a reps car before hand or just someone that lived far away from there work?

[forbezGti]

the person who had the car before me had to go far for his work. so its mostly motorway miles so it aint to bad.
i service it alot so hopefully it will go for a good while longer.

[JWC]

I've had my Gti about 7 months now and I still love driving it. I was wondering what mileage everyone has done in theirs so far. Im currently at 61k.

I think the design of the GTi and the extras it has will keep it looking good even when its 10 years old (some cars age badly). What kind of mileage can you expect from the GTi assuming you look after it? Has the engine been used in other VW's previously?

I would say, if you don't faff with it by putting induction kits on it and you change the oil twice a year or 5k whatever comes first, and you don't take it above 3,500 RPM until its over 70C on the temp gauge and you avoid short journeys particularly in winter, you can expect about 150,000 miles from it easy. Cars prefer to be driven than temperature cycling. However, its obvious that the feeble 1 litre model will outlast the other engines by a good margin from a wear point of view, but most engines fail because of internal corrosion these days - and that's what you get if you do short journeys and don't change the oil enough (forget what the service shedule says, they want you to buy a new VW every 5 years).

As a side, if you buy a citroen you can expect it to be wanting to crawl away and die at about 70k miles. Yet I was in a taxi the other day that was a larger citroen and it had done 213k miles. He'd had only two clutches, and about 5 sets of new discs!

[JWC]

the person who had the car before me had to go far for his work. so its mostly motorway miles so it aint to bad.
i service it alot so hopefully it will go for a good while longer.

Motorway miles are chicken feed to the car, bet it still thinks its new!

Interestingly - this is why low mileage is not always a good thing. My friend bought a clio with 22k on it, but it was owned by a nurse who kept driving it about 1/2 a mile to her next victim at home. As you can imagine, the clutch was knackered and the engine was obiously worn because it sounded like a bag of spanners. (or perhaps clio's are meant to be like that). Not to mention the fact that her idea of parking was to drive up the curb, bounce off it into the car in front, reverse into the one behind then go forward a bit. She even does it if they are sat in the car - unbelievable!

[forbezGti]

yeh the car still run's sweet, even though i f*cked my diff two weeks ago, but that was due to racing it. the diff pin snapped then broke though the gear box caseing. it away getting fixed now,
missing it so much got a 1.6 focus just now and its so depressing driven it.

[JWC]

How the hell did you break it like that? Surely it must have been defective? I don't see how its possible, perhaps if you selected 1st at 70mph?

Focus! I had a 1.8Zetec focus that I was selling for a greek girl. Even after she'd driven it it still drove sweet, and the clutch and gearbox were much nicer to use than mine. I tried so hard to hate it, as I am allergic to fords, but..... It was actually a very well put together car, ticking all the boxes for what I would call a good car (except that its ford). My dad, who is my source of the hatred for fords, feels like me, but even he couldn't fault it. Damn it! It was so quiet that I thought the engine had stalled! I wanted to smash its face in so much..... grrrr

[mkone]

35k 2000 w reg

[forbezGti]

i was on the 1/4 mile when it broke.was going up the strip all day then the last run i did it went. it probably went cause i was given it tatties all day.

dont get me wrong about the focus, it a ok car to drive, so easy to drive. but it just has no go about it at all, probably due to the weight of it.

[CalvinGTI]

2000 (Dec) X Reg 48K

[Reeyad]

2000 X reg 32,000

I havent even driven mine yet well apart from a test drive, picking mine up from a VW Dealer tommorow cant wait.

Its black 5dr and has the red seatbelts, dealer goes these was an expensive extra, not sure if they suit the car.

first car was a mk2 golf ryder, sec car mk4 polo 1.4 atlanta polo

[mikegti]

2000 W reg, 74500 miles. I've done 30k in two years, nearly all motorway or A roads.