Being serious though, a Stage 1 map or box isn't really going to cause major component compromise... I agree after that it could but Stage 1 is pretty mild.
I think a lot of this comes down to how it is driven and the mechanical symphony of the owner.
Manuals cars clutches suffer people ride the torque curve rather than use the power and higher revs, I always used to drop a cog when overtaking
There was a bug thing about the the turbos on initial Rs failing etc, which was funny as Revo and myself did 20k on these fragile turbos, that said we did let them warm up and could down.
The manual R's clutch is just not up to the job. I never modified mine and it slipped on a few occasions in cold weather.
I'm pretty mechanically sympathetic with my cars, but it happened all the same.
Apart from not thrashing a cold engine (which the car won't let you do now since the arrival of the MK7 because output is restricted until the oil temp is registering at 50C), how much mechanical sympathy should you be giving yo a hot hatch? These cars are so powerful that they can only be driven hard for 10 seconds at a time before you're speeding beyond what a Bobby would turn a blind eye to.
That clutch has zero over-engineering in it when unmodified car's clutches are failing (mine wasn't the only one) and it's almost a cert that a modified Golf's manual clutch will go at stage 1 within 10k miles.
If you are going to up the power even to only stage 1 on a GTI or R, get a clutch upgrade before you up the power, or you'll be needing a new flywheel as well as a new clutch.
