Ok here goes a whinge!
Went out for a long drive today, after cleaning the car and doing some Vag Com bits for the boot opening from remote key. No error codes present.
Stuck in a line of traffic and getting fed up as a scooter thing was behind a hired car making it hard to overtake both at once. At last, a clear straight bit of road with no cars coming the other way I floored it in sport mode.
The car in front was doing about 15-25 mph, and even though I'd floored it, it just seemed to take forever to get past.
1st gear seems to rev out to the red line and possibly beyond, as if you were in a manual and had gone past the power band? If that makes any sense. Second came up and it went ok-ish after that but nothing to push you back in the seat. The car was light, only me and a front seat passenger in. 98RON Super Unleaded in and 14 degrees outside on the display.
I think some of my whinge is due to the fact I used to drive an S4 which if you wanted to ovetake and floored it from low RPM it would launch like a scalded cat! I may be missing the torque as I dont really want to have to rev the nuts out of a car to get some power out of it.
Ok so now its on 1000 miles or near as, and if I'm going to keep it then it has to improve powerwise asap! Its going to France soon to do about 2k miles so when it returns then it looks like a remaps 1st on the list.
Is a remap really noticable powerwise, especially torque as thats what I feel is lacking? I've seen the power graphs from Superchip$ but just want to know how you feel about yours. As I live away from mainland UK then it looks like it'll have to be a bluefin. I want to keep the car as OEM looking as possible so I doubt an exhaust will be on the list, but is there anything else I can do to get the power up higher?
Thinking back, I should have ordered the ED30, but the GTI felt ok at the time.
Especially if its as powerful as you ED30 owners keep harking on about!
