« Reply #16 on: 16 September 2011, 15:58 »
Think you will struggle to get people on this forum modding there cars ( engine wise ).
Have a look about the other threads its more about: tomatos, dealers, the dreaded winter tyre thread!, gays etc etc!
And all the better for it too!!
The trouble is not many people will modify such a new car too drastically. All mk6
GTIs are still under warranty and most of them on here are probably on some sort of finance. Those that are on finance are probably on VW finance as they try and ram it down your neck as soon as you walk in a showroom and under the terms and conditions of the finance it probably says you can't modify your car. My GAP insurance also says this (though my car isn't under finance).
Plus many of us in this section are a little older and have been there and done that and found out that once you go past a stage 1 point of modifying you end up spending money left right and centre to keep the balance of performance vs handling vs brakes etc and the car just ends up a money pit. Once you get a bit older you can afford to insure things that are designed to go like that out of the box (whether you can afford to buy one is another matter!), so there's a big difference between the mk4 section, mk5 section which is becoming the new mk4 section and the mk6 section which is still in its chastity belt. Give it another couple of years and things will have moved on again ...
But still, there's no harm trying to drum up a group buy because there are still a minority of new car buyers that want to go the whole hog (and probably should have bought an R in the first place!) and have the means and desire to have a heavily modified GTI.
Funnily enough richyrb is one of those people (going from his little bit in VW Driver magazine a few months ago - it was you wasn't it?
) and he's the one person who has just been a 'little put off'.
Anyway cars are f*cking boring so lets talk more about tomatoes!!!
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