{"id":1255,"date":"2014-12-17T14:45:53","date_gmt":"2014-12-17T13:45:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fastgerman.com\/forum\/?p=1255"},"modified":"2016-11-02T15:50:49","modified_gmt":"2016-11-02T14:50:49","slug":"volkswagen-golf-gti-mk5-1-year-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fastgerman.com\/forum\/volkswagen-golf-gti-mk5-1-year-on\/","title":{"rendered":"Volkswagen Golf GTI MK5 &#8211; 1 year on"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So, here we are, 10k miles on in my new daily driver and I have the following to report: <!--more--><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/fastgerman.com\/forum\/volkswagen-golf-gti-mk5\/\" title=\"Golf GTI MK5\" target=\"_blank\">Volkswagen Golf GTI MK5 review on recent purchase<\/a><\/p>\n<p>1 x break down requiring RAC recovery. The engine would start but then cut out a few seconds after with some spluttering\/hesitation on acceleration before the revs dropped. This turned out to be a fuel filter and pcv (pressure check valve). All fairly straight forward once plugged into the diagnostics.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve never owned a car that drinks so much oil; Volkswagen quote 1000km per 1 litre of oil. I don&#8217;t buy 1 litre top up&#8217;s anymore but instead opt for a 5 litre Quantum long life oil from VW themselves. The car is averaging 2000 miles per 1 litre of oil, which seems in line with others noted on Pistonheads and similar forums.<\/p>\n<p>Fuel consumption seems pretty good averaging 36-40 mpg on a run, this can be closer to 30 with stop start\/urban driving. Always use the good stuff such as V Power or BP Ultimate.<\/p>\n<p>An area to investigate on my next service is why I have a cloud of smoke behind me when I accelerate hard from 4000 rpm upwards. Again, a Google search seems to show this is normal.<\/p>\n<p>Costs incurred over 10k miles\/1 year include the cambelt change (\u00a3450), 4 x Dunlop Sports including fitting and 4 wheel alignment (\u00a3500), insurance (\u00a3250), MOT (\u00a350), servicing (\u00a3400). Depreciation I believe it to be 0 based on the current prices for 2007 cars on Pistonheads and Autotrader being more than I spent on mine. I don&#8217;t expect the tyres or cambelt costs for some time, however disks, pads and wheel refurbishment are on the cards for next year. A budget of \u00a31k per year excluding fuel and minimal depreciation makes this a recommended daily from me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So, here we are, 10k miles on in my new daily driver and I have the following to report:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1114,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[219,181,188,191,236],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fastgerman.com\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1255"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/fastgerman.com\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/fastgerman.com\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fastgerman.com\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fastgerman.com\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1255"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/fastgerman.com\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1255\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1368,"href":"http:\/\/fastgerman.com\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1255\/revisions\/1368"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fastgerman.com\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1114"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fastgerman.com\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fastgerman.com\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fastgerman.com\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}