300,000 MILE VW GOLF MK5 GTI

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Hi...

I thought I'd share my blog post on my daily drive. My 2006 VW Golf GTi Mk5 has just completed its 300,000 mile..

A short summary of the last 8 years is here in case anyone is thinking of buying a MK5 GTi...

http://hilllaneconsulting.co.uk/blog/?page_id=287

Cheers

Nick

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Strange, seems to work for me... I'll look into that..

Cheers

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Not excessive, pretty much within VWs consumption guide...

Hub said:

Impressive mileage.

I hope yours doesnt use as much oil as mine did, as that would be quite annoying! ...but I guess you would have mentioned it!

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I'm pretty sure only 2 sets of discs, you might be right though, maybe a few more sets of pads, but not many.. i seem to have lost some of bills there are so many now !!

rb5er said:

Only 2 sets of brake pads and discs in 240k miles?

Sounds like its mainly used as a motorway muncher then. Either that or driven very gently.

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First one around 110,000 miles, the other around 220,000...

Car not actually tracked, those were just numerous trips as a mechanic...

St John Smythe said:

What mileage did you find yourself replacing the first DSG controller? Judging by your blog it had a fairly hard life with trackdays, etc.

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I think at least 2 in each cylinder, in fact vag-com is reporting cylinder 1 coil pack is playing up this week...

petrolsniffer said:

so how many coilpacks you been through?

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Its pretty good, some wear to driver seat bolsters, but no tears. Most miles were motorway and generally only me in the car, so rest of interior looks good still

Leithen said:

Impressive stuff - how has the interior held up?

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yep, thats the plan.. after i've replaced a couple more coil packs.. vag-com has just diagnosed cylinder 1 is sick !!

ahh.. well that's my Clio 182 which is now built ready for the ktec race series next year...

http://www.750mc.co.uk/formulae/clio-series.htm

egor110 said:

Just read your blog, surely you must be tempted to get it to 500k?

Also what's that naughty little french thing in your garage

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interesting.. i considered doing the same thing, but I couldn't find a nice GT TDI at the time, so just carried on... I still love it..

It was the DSG selector unit, so I've had two of these now

http://vagpart.com/parts/vw-1k2713041b/

va1o said:

Very good effort OP! I had one very similar to yours, black 2006 dsg, but sold it when I started doing big mileage. Currently driving a MK7 GTD, maybe I should have stuck with petrol power...

When you say DSG controller is this the same as the mechatronics unit? Still on the original clutch packs?

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oh.. and yes, original clutch pack

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