DSG woe update

[Komenda]

Perhaps return the car to standard form. Sell it and get a manual? OR even better... Why not get a .:R32 which are going pretty cheap in manual and use the extra cash to turbo it? It would be amazing and if you dont like the zimmer frame grill then change over to a GTi grill. We have proof that .:R exhausts and GTi front end look amazing.

Just an idea.

Mike 

No need to sell the car, just swap the chocolate gearbox, (Sorry ) for a proper one. Seen a few on ebay recently for around £5-600. Probably get your money back selling the DSG box.

[08micsta]

Fairplay. But wont that be just as costly as turboing a .:R?

I dont know much about the costs oversees.

Mike

[Komenda]

Manual box will set you back £600 tops add another £500 for fitting and an uprated clutch. Turbo conversion on an R will run to £4,000 as a guess-timate.

[topher]

Multiply that 4k figure by 5 and you're closer to the truth

[08micsta]

I heard or remember 5000.... So yeah the gearbox conversion is much cheaper. But an .:R would be so lush  

Either way it is up to Hurdy. Wont the .:R handle the power better than the front wheel drive GTi?

Mike

[Komenda]

Multiply that 4k figure by 5 and you're closer to the truth

Sod that then.

Wont the .:R handle the power better than the front wheel drive GTi?

The R would be more efficient putting those sort of numbers down onto the road which makes the fact VW didn't give it that power in the first place even more frustrating

[Phil mcavity]

id wait for the Golf R36 which im sure WILL be released because Vw have realeased the Passat with the 3.6 in it.. They woulnt produce that engine just for one model. Id hold out for that john if your thinking about going to the Dark R side!!.

[topher]

When the MK5 started production in 04, it was announced that the 200ps GTI and the 275ps R32 would follow in 2005. But that would've made it quicker than the S3, and that's just a big nono in the VAG stable. Shame, 275 would be about right.

VW have released info to their dealers that an R32/R36 Golf will not be made available in the UK (due to the tree hugging hippies that want to save the whales), instead the top model will share the same engine as the next release of the S3, possibly slightly detuned. Sounds like an ED30 to me then..

[Top Cat]

My money is on the next R being a 2.0  Audi have gone that way it stands to reason VW will. I dont even think the mk 6 will get a R model. EVO getting 360 bhp out of a 2.0 aswel. Its a shame but its the age were in It could be bye-bye to the 3.2 burble 

[Horney]

Even BMW are rumoured to be going 4 pot turbo for the next M3 to keep the tree huggers happy.

Nick