Edition 30 GTI Engine?

[AlanH]

could any one please confim if a road angel Navigation 7000 would recive a singnal through the front screen? I hear some new screens prevent this for some reason?

I use a TomTomGo in my GTi and have no problems at all with signal. Don't see any reason why the ED30 screen should be any different.

[mrtibbs27]

Meant to say when I was talking about pistons and turbo etc the other day, the other thing that my dealer mentioned was this. The Edition 30 will be worth between £1,500 and £1,700 extra over and above the standard Golf GTi, at part ex time, this is in line with the 25th Anniversay cars. So that makes the 30th Edition pretty good value in my opinion. I have said it before, its everyone to their own, there are so many makes / models of cars out there, we should all be able to find one we like. If you dont like Golf GTi's go buy a Renault Megane 230 F1 R26 which will be worth about £7,000 in 3 years time or something else that suits you. What I will say having owned a MK V Golf GTi is if you want an all round car which is excellent at everything buy one, the Cooper S may corner better, Focus may accelerate better but there is nothing out there that touches the Golf Gti for all round ability in that class. When I part ex'd mine I got £15,500 for it, nearly 2 years old, bog standard except metallic paint, 6 c.d. and centre armrest. I reckon thats not a bad deal, take car tax off and vat and you've done well, none of the others comes near it, just my opinon but hey were all entitled to one on this web arent we. My build week was 4 and it is now at the dealers waiting for 1/3/2007, if that helps anyone who is wondering how long they may have to wait. I insured my Edition 30 yesterday with More Than, £278 fully comprehensive including protected bonus worth contacting if you are struggling for a competative quote.

[Simonet]

Wow that's cheap!!
I'm going to ring now!!

(See my other post about insurance)

If you don't mind me asking, how old are you?

[wantmygti]

The sales manager of my local dealership told me today that it is purely a remap only generating the extra 30hp. Now this clearly contradicts the other evidence put forward and makes me wonder if VW HQ has actually told the dealers what they have done to the engine??

Either that or a standard GTi shares the S3 turbo and internals already?

[Phil mcavity]

thanks wantmygti,
                                At least im not the only one thats been told the same, now goes to show that possibly  hurdy and bmx may be mis-informed also,
                                well either way , im not bothered, happy with what ive got for the mo.Hope you enjoy your 5 star "whatcar" rated gti from march wantmygti!!, as much as all those 4 star edition 30 owners!!, hehe, dig dig!

 

[Teutonic_Tamer]

Hope you enjoy your 5 star "whatcar" rated gti from march wantmygti!!, as much as all those 4 star edition 30 owners!!, hehe, dig dig!

 

                      

[Simonet]

This wasn't meant to be a thread to invoke this childish banter, I'm purely wanting to know the facts. BMX seems to have some hard evidence so until proved otherwise, i think it's the more believable over some Sales guy. The majority of sales people are only interested in one thing.... sales figures.

I hope we can continue this in a positive manner. We are all here for one reason, we love Golf GTI's

[bmx]

The sales manager of my local dealership told me today that it is purely a remap only generating the extra 30hp. Now this clearly contradicts the other evidence put forward and makes me wonder if VW HQ has actually told the dealers what they have done to the engine??

Either that or a standard GTi shares the S3 turbo and internals already?

ok you people believe the sales men if you like,

the sales manager at huddersfield said to me  " its got a bigger back spoiler and thats about it" 
the sales manager at wakefield said "i havnt a clue what they have done to the engine".
vw customer service manager said " we dont know were the extra power has come from, no one will tell us"

nice white one for you lot

[AlanH]

I'm with bmx on this. Most of the VW salesmen I've come across know very little about the technical aspects of the cars they're being paid to sell. They're the equivalent of PC World's Saturday staff.

[Stiggy]

My local vw dealer informed me that there are other changes to the engine apart from the ecu remap, but he didn't know exaclty what these mods were.  This is the only dealer that has said this; majority of the dealers haven't a clue what's going on.  I have been looking into this for some time now and the majority vote is that the ed 30 gti has the same engine upgrades as the s3, over the standard gti.