« Reply #11 on: 30 April 2008, 20:18 »
if you push your pedal an inch does the engine rev?
Yeah it revs with no load on the engine, it just feels a bit unresponsive on light application.
For scientific reasons I've just put the car back to standard mapping and driven it about 10 miles, funnily enough it doesn't feel so flat now(?) perhaps I'm just getting used to the car.
Maybe it was that before I bought it I read rave reviews for all those years but actually driving one after a raft of remapped cars it just felt a bit flat low down. Feels fine with the re-map on but even then it doesn't have the torque kick of a mapped 1.8t which is traded off against the fact that it revs much more smoothly.
Overall I love the car and wish I'd bought a GTI a couple of years ago instead of the TDI (having said that, it was a perfectly good car in itself).
Right I'm going to shut up on the subject now, I've decided that the turbo must be far more progressive than the older GTIs and hence it just feels a bit lacking if you're gentle. Many thanks for all the replies and assistance.
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