Has anyone done it yet? I search google and YouTube and can’t find anything only Rs that have been done.
If it was that good I would have expected to hear about it by now but nope not a peep. Back when I first bought my new ed30 we had Hurdy and RedRobin etc doing awesome reviews but nothing these days.
What’s going on?
The world has moved on a fair bit since the mk5 tuning days.
I think Hurdy is still knocking around somewhere, more likely in an R these days I’d imagine if he still modifies his car. RedRobin would be well in his 70’s now I think.
Back then you had all that potential built into the Ed30 ready to be unlocked via a remap, and the R was a 6 cyl NA engine that was difficult and/or expensive to tune. GTI’s were trendy and VW sold them by the bucket load.
Now we have an R with trick diff rear suspension allowing it to really tear up the tarmac with a remap where a Clubsport would mostly just spin the power away along with the rubber on the front tyres.
The boys and girls that are into tuning mostly buy R’s, and for good reason.
The mk8 GTI isn’t trendy and nobody can get their hands on one aside from overpriced VW dealer used examples in the main.
The world sees the mk8 as a negative thing because it has no buttons, yet Teslas have no buttons and are super trendy. The difference being the Tesla software is better received and they make 100% sense as a company car unlike the VW.
The big change in tuning came with the panic surrounding TD1 in mk7’s, plus cheap leases and PCP’s meaning people bought their cars differently.
Personally I remapped every turbo car I had for 15 years or more (with quite a prolific turnover of cars too) but the TD1 and difficulty in unlocking ECU’s put the brakes on a lot of tuning during the mk7 era.
If I keep my mk8 past the warranty I’ll maybe tune the ECU but to be honest I’ve lost all enthusiasm for modifying cars these days. Maybe I’m not the only one. My generation are getting old. Guys in their 20’s and 30’s should be leading the way here, where are they? In Teslas probably.
