bye bye polo, hello seat!

neale · Post by **neale** » Tue Nov 06, 2007 2:04 pm

Yep defo into the 200+club now... fraid not local im 65miles north of aberdeen in Scotland lol....there is a few cupra's goin bout my area but not any R's

Tim_GTi · Post by **Tim_GTi** » Tue Nov 06, 2007 2:40 pm

shantybeater wrote:
judging by the utter annihalation of a type r yesterday & my stats i'm looking at high 5's 0-60 apparently

let us know when you get a proper stat of it!

shantybeater · Post by **shantybeater** » Tue Nov 06, 2007 3:04 pm

well i've got this from dyno plot:

and a 1/4 mile slip:

dino · Post by **dino** » Tue Nov 06, 2007 4:50 pm

NICE results - are you pleased mate?

shantybeater · Post by **shantybeater** » Tue Nov 06, 2007 5:08 pm

they are old ones, i'm not too happy about the power lost at the wheels/transmission? isnt usually that high is it?, dont think the 17" rims do alot of good tbh, want to get it RR'd now so I know where im at

dino · Post by **dino** » Tue Nov 06, 2007 5:19 pm

I thought that was quite low to amount to be lost.

But i've just checked my rolling road print out and the Polo only lost 24bhp.

Ollie_R · Post by **Ollie_R** » Tue Nov 06, 2007 5:30 pm

You're going to woop me at Santa Pod next year

dino · Post by **dino** » Tue Nov 06, 2007 5:38 pm

whats the guesstime 0-60 on that baby James?

shantybeater · Post by **shantybeater** » Tue Nov 06, 2007 6:05 pm

someone with similar spec got a recorded time of 5.050 secs to 60mph with really sticky tyres, here's him racing his mates type r

https://www.youtube*.com/watch?v=AGIf3cvHB3k - view from the type r

I reckon due to the possible boost leak i'd be looking at high 5's

neale · Post by **neale** » Wed Nov 07, 2007 11:54 am

Those figure are impressive mate....did you get all your vag-com issues sorted? noticed you had a thread on scn

shantybeater · Post by **shantybeater** » Wed Nov 07, 2007 1:47 pm

yup ended up being the N75 sensor, the rubber cover had degraded & it was shorting to ground making my car go spak, all sorted now!

neale · Post by **neale** » Wed Nov 07, 2007 1:53 pm

Thats good fella cos noticed you had like 12 faults or summin

as far as im aware the only problems th previous owner had wit my R was the individual ignition coils goin

shantybeater · Post by **shantybeater** » Wed Nov 07, 2007 1:57 pm

yeah it had blown a fuse and was throwing out all kinds of faults...all gone now

Sounds like yours is in good nick, any problems so far?

neale · Post by **neale** » Wed Nov 07, 2007 2:05 pm

Yep the boy i bought it off kept it in tip top condition no problems as of yet (touches wood) only niggle i have is my passenger foglight is cracked and is gonna sting me Â£60 all in from seat, by the sounds of things you got a cracking deal wit trading in the little polo in for the cupra

shantybeater · Post by **shantybeater** » Wed Nov 07, 2007 2:17 pm

yeah i'm very happy, few problems with it though that need fixing,

- its throwing out some smoke
- the front bumper is ridden with stone chips, its like someone has been driving it up a gravel path all its life, so it needs respraying

and thats about it...but still a great deal