Well it made a nice noise once it got going, but my 1.6 felt quicker off the line (probably due to revier nature) and I was just underwhelmed by it - when I drove the V6, it was the engine (and the noise) I wanted the V5 to be.
[/quote] As far as it being the best, I dont know. What I do know is that most of the AGG engines suffer a flatspot, when changing at around 6k in first into second is has a flatspot, cured by an ECU remap.[/QUOTE] I get that flat spot 1st -2nd and 2nd - 3rd......its a b@stard [:^(]
youre right...it's not the quickest, but it's supposed to be the smoothest engine and best for cruising.
When you say flatspot do you mean when you change hard the whole car jerks that what you mean by flatspot????
no, what I mean is when you change, the car doesnt pull for a second, then it goes. I've tried hardly lifting the throttle when changing (incase it was a throttle response issue), but it doesnt make much difference.
blimey i think this is the first thread i've been involved in that hasn't involved a sarky comment or another thread started without another thread hi jacking it I wouldn't say i've noticed it the jerk i was going on about must be my driving as i can make it go if i try maybe mine has already been sorted but i don't know. I got a nice j&r racing filter on mine which sounds luuuurvery though Just thought i'd tell ya that for no reason whatsoever
The engine code is also on the inside front cover of the service manual... I had an ADY mk3 which had a bit of a flat spot ... an AMD remap does sort it out (as well as giving it a respectable power increase)
bit naff of VW to label it as a GTI. my ford Focus 1.8TDCI is 115bhp. prob not much in them. a 'VW' mistake of which they have promised not to repeat in relation to labelling up everything with 'GTI'
You have indeed super I think it falls into the 'it's a gti' bracket of people who just see the badge and still buy regardless of performance. VW haven't had a reason to sort it out properly when people still buy them in droves just because of the badge
which is why they've poached the engineer that designed the suspension on the focus for the MK5 golf. Evo reviewed the non-gti 2.0 fsi, and said it was a good handling car. With 200bhp, from a 2.0litre turbo, it should hopefully be worthy of the gti badge.
I think its very sad that a GTI is only 0.2 seconds quicker than a 1.6SE - what was the point!? my mums got a 206 1.6 GLX which is as quick as a MkIV GTI - very dissapointing! cause that is very slow in comparison to my MkII
