New car thread. GTI
Posted: Sun Jun 12, 2022 12:04 am
Hello troops, new here 
going to use this thread as an update on my gti purchased it yesterday. Flew from Glasgow to luton and drove it home no problems. I owned a 1.2 when I was 17 always said I wanted the gti but insurance etc had other ideas. Fast forward almost 10 years and I’ve finally bought one. Needs a few bits tidying up but overall I’m please with the purchase. I’m no mechanic just like my cars have always tinkers myself. This has been tinkered with already from what I can see heres what I have clocked so far:
Forge dump
Drilled n grooves rears
Drilled fronts
Boost gauge
Decat
Map (unconfirmed but according to boost gauge we’re hitting 1.4bar not sure how accurate that will be looks a cheap one)
Has a few lights on dash I’ll need to sort all relating to abs/brakes but more importantly today the red oil light has made an appearance on a couple occasions goes off again after 10 seconds or so, started when I took the dater in it and gave it some (I topped the oil up before driving down to his it wanted about 500ml) and it still shows perfect oil level. I have a hold of my mates diag tool but it’s not giving me codes for the brakes even though the lights are there it’s not a top snap on machine
(should be a pic of the codes attached) cleared them and got left only with the coolant one. Nothing for the oil light stored.
going to use this thread as an update on my gti purchased it yesterday. Flew from Glasgow to luton and drove it home no problems. I owned a 1.2 when I was 17 always said I wanted the gti but insurance etc had other ideas. Fast forward almost 10 years and I’ve finally bought one. Needs a few bits tidying up but overall I’m please with the purchase. I’m no mechanic just like my cars have always tinkers myself. This has been tinkered with already from what I can see heres what I have clocked so far:Forge dump
Drilled n grooves rears
Drilled fronts
Boost gauge
Decat
Map (unconfirmed but according to boost gauge we’re hitting 1.4bar not sure how accurate that will be looks a cheap one)
Has a few lights on dash I’ll need to sort all relating to abs/brakes but more importantly today the red oil light has made an appearance on a couple occasions goes off again after 10 seconds or so, started when I took the dater in it and gave it some (I topped the oil up before driving down to his it wanted about 500ml) and it still shows perfect oil level. I have a hold of my mates diag tool but it’s not giving me codes for the brakes even though the lights are there it’s not a top snap on machine
(should be a pic of the codes attached) cleared them and got left only with the coolant one. Nothing for the oil light stored.