My current car and previous two cars

alan_5555

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Afternoon people

I haven't been on here in ages

Over the last 10 years or so I've been sticking with the gti platform

First one i had was a lovely 2007 VRS which has the MK5 GTI engine. This car is surprisingly good and fun to drive. Huge boot space and plenty of stock power @200bhp

After i sold this i wanted to stick with the GTI range, so i bought a 2010 MK6, again this was a very decent car - I got Vland led front and rear lights for it which lift the front and rear up to a more modern look. Pricy but worth doing on both ends. MK6 has a very good stock exhaust so a RAM air filter kit made the car sound lovely. I got this remapped here in Dublin years ago, it was down on power from factory and made 190bhp on its first dyno run, second run it made 250bhp then the last bit of tweaking he got it to 263bhp.

My current car the MK7 is a pretty good machine. Very comfortable but a tiny boot and with two kids this sometimes can be an issue. This car caused me a few headaches but its been good for quite some time so no complaints. The water pump failed and then the head gasket so got the head and associated work all done. Its remapped now from a very knowledgeable place - It was expensive but its worth it. I have 3 switchable maps from a sequence of buttons on the steering wheel, 301bhp, 260bhp and a limp mode setting.

I just leave it at 300bhp, plus it has 480 Nm torque - Also got the stop start deactivated and the traction control button can be utilised for extra torque in the high torque map setting, it pulls very very well in all gears and it would take something special to be keeping up with you with 3rd or 4th planted to the ground...

I do miss the old 4EFTE's i had, they are very rare now and cant be picked up for two grand anymore lol
 

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Djaniero

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Nice cars man. I daily drive a TDI VAG and have the GT for weekends. Can't beat the VAGs for comfort and reliability without breaking the bank imo. I came rally close to getting a MK5 ED30 a few years back, but I did way too many miles hence the reason I went for a TDI. Is the MK7 manual or DSG?
 

Jay

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Good to see you posting in Alan, even if the Germans have grabbed you :D

I'm guilty of having a Golf on the drive atm, gotta keep the miles off the JDM fleet somehow!
 

alan_5555

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Thanks, yea they aren't bad little cars. I always go for manual. Might get a DSG version if i get a Golf 8 in two years.

I really miss my old GT Turbo, I got it in 2001 and it was only eight years old... no wear on the seats or body 25k on the clock was practically a new car. This was the time of the Jap import boom in Ireland and they were quite rare even then. I paid €5,250 for it at the time as I remember well. Bought a quadlight kit off a lad called Trevor up the north. Drove up and got lost a millions times to get it :D Was a fantastic little car
 

alan_5555

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There used to be the odd summer meets up at Dublin Airport where people park up and watch the places up on the IKEA side. I remember chatting to Macker from Waterford there - He was a metal head as well and also into the drums like i was :D I remember it was mainly NI Starlets at those few meets, i had some lovely pics they are on an old desktop PC in my parents house buried in the attic somewhere.
 

Jay

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Ah, take me back to the early years where things were clean, cheap and fun!

Trev was a local legend, starlet king, made many trips up to him myself.

Those meets were great, attended a few in my time. Macker is a real nice guy, think he ended up in the fire service which suited him to a tee.
 

alan_5555

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Brilliant Jay - I was at that in my white ITR id say. There was ones on in the early 2000's as well. Another nice lad called Kev (Tooler) i met at one of those meets as well, i bought some wheel caps off him as mine was missing one and it bugged the life out of me.

I must try get that old dell PC fired up. It might take a month but there is loads of old stuff on it i want to have a look at
 

Jay

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You've only to mention Domo and that's the original TGTT trio complete :D

There were a serious amount of others but I think those were the main three irish mods at the start.

Would be interested to know what you can find in the old pc so keep us in mind!
 

Djaniero

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Is this Trevor from Ballymena? If so I met him years ago when I went over to collect a Glanza with a mate of mine. Trevor was a really cool guy and knew his stuff about starlets
 

H_D

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I just don't like them Bud :)
VW,s And Hondas, all shite
Honda are not shite :p. just finished building an EG with a k-swap, its currently getting mapped as we speak. Will be looking at 650-700bhp until the gearbox goes bang. already started collecting parts to make it 4wd which should be completed by next spring/summer.
 
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