Greetings from Brisbane! MkV Golf GTI

[Tuann]

Hey there guys, just stumbled upon this forum recently, a couple of days after purchasing my candy white MkV golf gti! I'm Tuan from Brisbane, would be awesome to meet a couple of you guys and go for a couple of meets.
I had just bought this car as of the 6th December, 2012. Bought it with 88300km on the clock sits on approx 89100 now Has been taken up Mt Nebo and Mt Glorious, and man, can I say the Golf is awesome. Everything that came with the car was stock, and the previous owner supplied me with a ChippedUK ST3 (Bluefin like unit), which I activated and ran for a bit. Was a lot of fun, but then I headed over to APR to give their trial stage 1 tune a go, and I'm going to have to say that APR wins hands down. (dyno sheet attached below). I'm looking at doing an intake, down pipe, (catback optional at this point in time), and a stage 1 APR tune before the end of February next year. Anyways, thanks for having the time to read this post, but as they say, pictures speak 1000 words Cheers!


When I first picked up the GTI






Minutes before the comparison was done!


ChippedUK against APR Stage 1, done at Harding Performance, Brisbane

[team_v]

Welcome to the forums mate.
Hope we can see the beastie at some of our events.

[THE_EGG]

Nice car man. I do like the white on a mk5 GTI. Just out of curiosity, did you get a 'high-power vehicle exemption' for your P-plates? Or were you able to get the 125kw/tonne exemption thingy? The latter is what I got done recently.

[Tuann]

Thanks for the comments guys!

Nice car man. I do like the white on a mk5 GTI. Just out of curiosity, did you get a 'high-power vehicle exemption' for your P-plates? Or were you able to get the 125kw/tonne exemption thingy? The latter is what I got done recently.

I have just handed in my exemption, for both the power to weight ratio and "high power vehicle exemption", just in case either one got declined