What's a semi-interesting DD for 25K?

NYSpeed Automotive
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good choice, basically an A3 quattro in VW skin, so I’m going to baselessly say I called it.

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Yes

83

Good choice. Do a t belt.

84

And cam follower on these?

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85

Nice p/u. I have a 2013 R as well but stay away from a tune unless you want to dump money on a clutch.

Yup.

86

That’s surprising, add 100 +ft lbs and the oem clutch starts to go

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87

Weird, I just mentioned this vehicle to someone the other day! They were sweet in their day!

88

You may want to hit up Xander and see if he has any parts from his, sux he just traded his R in about 2 weeks ago.

89

What did he get?

90

I’m pretty sure he is just giving a baseless opinion. We have tuned 2 so far with no complaints. I haven’t done any internet research on it, just real world experience, and both customers have no clutch issues.

91

They sure do haul ass though with a flash. The oem clutches are usually pretty tough.

92

:tup:

I had a Stage 1 tune on my Golf R w/ intake and loved it. GIAC through Black Forest. Made the car 100 times more fun to drive and smoothed out the power curve.

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VW CC.

93

I think I may go that route once it’s paid off, which according to my amortization schedule will be in July of this year. :tup:

94

My friend Paul has a '12 Golf R…it is a great car…

95

My MK6 GTI slipped with a tune and exhaust, @Minglor’s MK6 GTI slipped with just a Stage 1 tune…it’s a pretty common issue with the 2.0T setup, just speaking of my personal real world experience.

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Yep. Mk6 gti clutch does not deal with a flash very well. Just my real world experience.
Not sure if the golf R does any better.

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The R is not a GTI, so it’s not really comparing apples to apples. Even then I have flashed countless MK5 and MK6 GTI’s and GLI’s and have never once had a customer with a clutch issue. Closest to a clutch issue we had was an 07 GLI that we flashed stage 2, intake, and downpipe at 60K miles and he had a dual mass flywheel failure at 125K miles. I checked the forums because of this post and the few threads I read were all people with postive things to say. This is the first I have heard of clutch issues.

98

At least the VW is cooler then the escape you traded in.

99

This car is actually pretty fun and seems capable in the snow, but FUCK THE TRACTION CONTROL OVERRIDE. You can disable the stability control, but then if you get real squirrely, it cuts all throttle and starts firing calipers. There has to be some way to defeat that.

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Hmm, looks like i just need a vag-com cable…

http://www.goapr.com/support/esp-defeat.html

Who has one?

100

Get on Ditb and contact t-rent. With vag com you can code it out and make traction control able to be fully turned off. Pretty sure he did it on his R.

Gives directions. It should be reversible too