« Reply #63 on: 30 January 2014, 16:38 »
The PP is my first car with an LSD and boy do I notice it.
I've owned 20 odd powerful front wheel drive cars, many of which were remapped and all sorts of chassis mods, and even on the road at sensible and legal speeds the LSD is apparent with the GTI PP having almost zero understeer. It really does not feel like a front wheel drive car.
The LSD and bigger brakes combo were the entire reason I changed from a mk6 (which I loved) to the mk7.
So for less than a grand you get an excellent value LSD, bigger brakes that will easily handle any future uprated power and a "Meh" 10 bhp that's only there because they thought they had to.
I guess the type of roads you drive on will have an effect but living in the West Country we have hills, bends, mud, poop and all manner of other 'challenges' to deal with and the diff soon becomes apparent. I don't think I've spun the wheels on the GTI once yet. Not that I've tried to but my mk6s, mk5's, mk4's, VR6's, TDI's etc all used to spin up an inside wheel all too easily and all had traction control not too far removed from XDS on the later cars or you'd get body movement and understeer when you didn't want it. Hats off to the chassis designers for the GTI mk7.
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