Please Post if your Happy with your Polo Gti

[Riklink]

Hi all

Would love to hear some good posts for a change about the Gti.

So if there's anyone out there that genuinely loves there car and thinks it was a good buy I'd love to hear from you.

[its_me]

Love my pogo!!

[Riklink]

Love my pogo!!

Any problems?

[its_me]

Touching wood as I'm saying this but no issues. Bought in May and done just over 7000km

[Yaks1974]

Love mine it's been a good car for almost a year of ownership . VW seems very hit and miss (reliability) these days by the sounds of it, if it wasn't for their arrogance and lies to so many reported issues I'd say go for it, however think you may be best off avoiding them and support another manufacturer who will treat you with some respect!


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[piston broke]

I've had mine two years and 30000ks. It's only ever been to VW for the regular services and recalls, never as a result of a problem. I bought it for my daily commute which is usually along Sydney's choked peak hour roads. I think I may have had a false neutral early on but I was still coming to terms with the DSG at the time, I've not had one since. I like the interior, fuel economy and overall performance of the car.

[Riklink]

I've had mine two years and 30000ks. It's only ever been to VW for the regular services and recalls, never as a result of a problem. I bought it for my daily commute which is usually along Sydney's choked peak hour roads. I think I may have had a false neutral early on but I was still coming to terms with the DSG at the time, I've not had one since. I like the interior, fuel economy and overall performance of the car.

Great to hear some positive reviews

[BLN355]

Another happy customer here. Had mine for 1yr and 3 months and clocked up 12, 000ks. Only issue I've had was a warning light at around 7000ks but it hasn't come up since and had no other issues.
I still get excited every time I take it for a drive.

[zoomda]

Hi all

Would love to hear some good posts for a change about the Gti.

So if there's anyone out there that genuinely loves there car and thinks it was a good buy I'd love to hear from you.

Don't ignore good advice! Asking people to tell you what you WANT to hear isn't going to help you in the long run. Most posts in this thread so far are from low mileage cars.

I get that you are excited about the prospect of the car. We were too and initially we loved it but that feeling is long gone.

If you are happy to be without your car for warranty repairs, happy to buy expensive oil to regularly top it up, happy to have the car shudder when you take off as the clutch slips away, happy to potentially end up with a bust engine that requires extremely expensive repairs after warranty then buy the GTI, ignore the good advice you have been given here.

Ours has been in 3 times for high oil consumption which they haven't fixed. It's been in twice for other issues including faulty sensors that resulted in loss of power. It's booked in next week for the clutch issue.

It pings under acceleration at times followed by a nice puff of smoke out the back. It is less than 2 years old.

I had a 118TSI, same motor and same gearbox and it had similar issues. I got rid of it quick smart.

You should be minimising your risk. Unless of course you are rich and don't mind wasting money.

I am trying to help you. Listen to the sound advise people are giving you on this forum. Go buy a Fiesta ST. It's newer and just as quick.

[Diesel_vert]

Don't ignore good advice!

That's his or her prerogative.

Riklink, if your heart is set on a Polo GTI, this forum will welcome you with open arms and support you (whatever your decision may be) but don't say you weren't warned!

[Riklink]

Don't ignore good advice! Asking people to tell you what you WANT to hear isn't going to help you in the long run. Most posts in this thread so far are from low mileage cars.

I get that you are excited about the prospect of the car. We were too and initially we loved it but that feeling is long gone.

If you are happy to be without your car for warranty repairs, happy to buy expensive oil to regularly top it up, happy to have the car shudder when you take off as the clutch slips away, happy to potentially end up with a bust engine that requires extremely expensive repairs after warranty then buy the GTI, ignore the good advice you have been given here.

Ours has been in 3 times for high oil consumption which they haven't fixed. It's been in twice for other issues including faulty sensors that resulted in loss of power. It's booked in next week for the clutch issue.

It pings under acceleration at times followed by a nice puff of smoke out the back. It is less than 2 years old.

I had a 118TSI, same motor and same gearbox and it had similar issues. I got rid of it quick smart.

You should be minimising your risk. Unless of course you are rich and don't mind wasting money.

I am trying to help you. Listen to the sound advise people are giving you on this forum. Go buy a Fiesta ST. It's newer and just as quick.

I really do appreciate your good advice.
I'm just trying to get both pictures.
As with all forums and review sites most people on there are there cos they are having problems and bad experiances.
I'm well aware that the Gti has had a lot of problems but all new cars do.
First year Mazda 3's for instance have a really bad problem with rust which Mazda addressed about 2 years later.
What I'm getting at is these engines and gearboxes are used in huge amounts of cars around the globe and yes they have been very problematic, but VW, Audi, Seat, Skoda all must know that they can't just carry on selling bad engines/gearbox's, It would cost them millions in warranty repairs.
So perhaps the question I should be asking is, Have these problems been addressed in the newer models ie. Cthe engines new gearbox software etc?

[kkierann]

I've had two and no problems with either of them...

[kkierann]

to add to that the first was a my12.5 and i did 17,000kms of trouble free motoring, current one is a my13.5 and has had no problems in it's first 4,000kms (hasn't needed any oil top ups or anything), well neither of them did... yet...

[AndrewBurns]

About 7500km on my 2013 build GTI, no problems yet. Oil consumption is low, dsg is ok (seemed better before the recall tbh but it's still fine).

[Riklink]

Thank you to everyone for contributing.
What a tough decision.
Lots of lovers and a whole heap of haters.

Please keep posting if you have anything else interesting to say.
The more information the better