POLO Mark 5 GTI

[Bluesmurff09]

Hi,

I'm thinking about getting a polo GTI a fun car that can soak up the miles with a tried and tested set up.

I persume the 1.8 150 bhp is the engine as the mark 4 golf?

Any pros and cons to this car?

Any tuning mods anyone could recommend?


Mat

[Dift]

I believe it uses the 1.8 20vt VAG engine. Robust, fairly bullet proof (except coil packs), and very tunable, although doesnt sound exciting.

Should remap to 200 ish BHP, then it'll go as far as you can afford with bigger turbos/internals etc.

Not a bad car, perfect small hatch to munch some miles in.

[MintyChris]

mk5 GTI? That one came with a 1.6 16v engine.

The mk7 GTI comes with a 150bhp 1.8 20v engine.

Map it straight away. If you want more power after that then I suggest save for a bigger turbo.

[va1o]

What are you all talking about? The MK5 GTI isn't coming out until Summer, thats the latest model...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volkswagen_Polo#Polo_...



1.4 TSI 180PS 7-speed DSG

[Dift]

I was refering to the original post, he mentions 150bhp, thus assumed the current polo gti (if it's still on sale?)... Ala http://listersgroup.co.uk/Used/Cars/Volkswagen/Pol...

seems to be a 1.8t 150 bhp engine in there (ripe for a ko4 conversion)

Surely my post stands? No?

[Phunk]

Mk5 Gti 1.6 16v:



MK7 Gti 1.8 20vt:

Edited by Phunk on Wednesday 5th May 17:42

[va1o]

Everyone seems to be getting the Marks wrong.

The MK5 Polo is the current 2010 (6R) model, and the GTI is due to go on sale within the next few months.

Pictured above this post is a MK3 Facelift (6N2) and a MK4 Facelift (9N3).

[Dift]

I avoided mentioning mks, as I have no clue when it comes to polo's.

I know of a 485bhp 1.8t polo which shows what you can do if you want to spend some money on it

back to the original question... See my 1st post.

[BoraBora]

i know of a 290bhp 1.8T polo but its pointless since the clutch cant cope (unless its upgraded), and it cant really put its power down

[Bluesmurff09]

Thanks for your feedback guys as this has been most helpful.

Sounds like I got the model number wrong but it seems the engine info I gave sorted that out LOL

I fancy a white one with carbon mirror caps and other uprated bits

[MintyChris]

va1o said:

Everyone seems to be getting the Marks wrong.

The MK5 Polo is the current 2010 (6R) model, and the GTI is due to go on sale within the next few months.

Pictured above this post is a MK3 Facelift (6N2) and a MK4 Facelift (9N3).

They only tend to go by those marks in Germany. In the Uk things are simplified and are listed as below. Only the Mk7(9N3) came with the 1.8 20v Turbo engine.

Mk1


Mk2


Mk3


Mk4


Mk5


Mk6


Mk7


Mk8

[OliPolo]

Hello,

I've got a Polo Gti of this model and still find it hard to come to a conclusion of model number. Throughout my time of owning it it's been really fun, and massively reliable, i think it looks the part as well, but obviously im biased. I saw a candy white one the other day which looked amazing, the only problem i have had is a dodgy coolant leak which was fixed for peanuts.

When buying my car i looked at one with leather and the 25,000 miles or so, the leather on the seat bolsters had already started to wear quite badly which put me off the leather option. The sat-nav is absolutely useless.

Oli