Car and Driver reviews Golf VI

[BadKenny]

http://www.caranddriver.com/reviews/...t_drive_review

Weird, how they mention the design chief saying how great the MkIV was and how the MkV sucked donkey balls...all I ever heard about the MkIV is how the MkIII was better or how the MkIV was a step backwards...

Then again, Car and Driver is not exactly the epitome of unbiased (or unbought) opinions. The only one worse is Motortrend (whose "best x of XXXX" is not actually based on what's best in the segment, only what's best among "brand new redesigned models for that year"....meaning if something was not redesigned but was class leader by a longshot, it would not win the award).

Then again, the MkV is plagued by (the omnipresent since the 1.8t days) DV failures now joined by crappy PCV system and even MOAR rattles and wind noise and timing pull even on stage 1 tunes...Oh and loose subframe bolts, and miscellaneous FAIL....

[turbomeyers]

Re: Car and Driver reviews Golf VI

first gear timing pulls ? what chip do you run ..? and why havent they fixed your tune

[turbomeyers]

Re: Car and Driver reviews Golf VI

and the mk3 was never better than the mk4 ..... the mk2 mabey but not the mk3 thats a massive black eye on vw for rust and reliability and electrical gremlins . and i love the mk5 i thought it was a great car with a few small problems to work out . (dv and pcv ) but thats why cars have warrenty .

[BadKenny]

Re: Car and Driver reviews Golf VI

and the mk3 was never better than the mk4 ..... the mk2 mabey but not the mk3 thats a massive black eye on vw for rust and reliability and electrical gremlins . and i love the mk5 i thought it was a great car with a few small problems to work out . (dv and pcv ) but thats why cars have warrenty .

Oh, the timing pull on the top end is with cars running even just stage 1 APR or stage 1 REVO (as per golfmkv.com).

I like the style of the mkv the best personally BUT....due to safety laws (i.e. not killing pedestrians), the ungodly height of all new vehicles is ridiculous. People used to complain about 4x4'ing on stock ride height on previous gen VW's (oh god, if you guys saw my old Audi A4 when it was stock height...Gapina was alive and well on that one...). That and the trunk spoiler is too short. Looks....abridged or aborted.....

[Speed Cat]

Re: Car and Driver reviews Golf VI

Have anyone of you guys had to change your PCV???

I had my DV changed twice but the problem never went away i was having, i wonder if it was the PVC the whole time.


i was getting p0299 fault... Low boost pressure

[turbomeyers]

Re: Car and Driver reviews Golf VI

i have eurojet fixes for the problem . i have done this to a couple of cars

[DubSport]

Re: Car and Driver reviews Golf VI

I owned a 2003 MKIV GTI VR6, and when I was considering a MKV GTI, I simply couldn't get over the inferior build quality of the interior. Too simplistic and unappealing, reminded me of econo cars. MKIV interior was nice, more like audi interiors whereas the MKV looked like they were trying to save money, and their exteriors reminded me of japanese designs.
MKIV chassis was not the greatest from a performance point of view though.
MKVI looks promising...

[twisted by dezign]

Re: Car and Driver reviews Golf VI

I really like the MkV interior a lot, materials are decent, it is not cluttered, and it is positioned well so you can see it. I can see why some people would like the MkIV interior better but the center console is far too low to look at comfortably.

[BadKenny]

Re: Car and Driver reviews Golf VI

Have anyone of you guys had to change your PCV???

I had my DV changed twice but the problem never went away i was having, i wonder if it was the PVC the whole time.


i was getting p0299 fault... Low boost pressure

You've got PM.
Once I get chipped I'm contemplating the deviantspeed fix.
It disables the front PCV while still allowing the rear to function (like the EJ fix but instead of using cnc'd plates to block it off, use 3/4"-7/8" rubber expansion plugs). There's guys with 30000 or more miles using the fix, no emissions or any other problems, again, it only disables the front pcv not the rear (the front is where them thar boost leaks come from).