Thanks for the update jake it will be interesting to see how your feelings for the car evolve.
There is a neat idea.
If I remember correctly, the MK7 and MK6 intercooler designs are different so they wouldn’t work
However, we have a MK6 GTI and TDI here owned by employees!
So far the fuel mileage vs fuel capacity is strange.
I had gone about 235 miles and it was already time to fill it back up (gas gauge was touching the red, so 1/8th tank left). I was confused on how I got such low mileage when this thing is supposed to be super efficient. So I fill it back up and i was only able to put in 9.7 gallons ??? The gas tank is supposed to be 13.2 gallon so I would have gues 11-12 gallons on fill up. I averaged it out and it was about 24mpg, roughly 80 miles where highway so i figured I should have gotten slightly better fuel mileage than that.
I will note that I haven’t beat on it yet since the car only has 240 miles on it.
scammed. Should have put a deposit on a vapourware model 3 and had ‘free’ fillups at westwest’s house.
LOL
This was in Car and Driver’s review of the car:
‘Also, we found ourselves stopping often for gas, not due to poor fuel economy (at 27 mpg observed in our hands, it was actually pretty good) but because the overly cautious range calculator starts ringing alarm bells even when less than 10 gallons or so have been drained from the 13.2-gallon tank…’
wonder if you can vagcom that to chill the fuck out
nice find Joe.
Reading on Vortex, when the gas pump click off because it is “full” people can manually keep going and squeeze another gallon in there.
Kind of like the issue the B6-B7 tanks get
On my MK6, if I fill up when the DTE is at zero(needle buried in the red) I can only get 12 gallons in. My tank size is 14.5 gallons. Usually I fill up right when the gas light comes on which usually translates to 10.5 gallons in. Must be a VW thing. If I am not mistaken, the manual says that there is 2 gallons of the 14.5 that is classified as “reserve”. Who needs ~55 miles of reserve after the DTE hits zero miles??
Maybe there are a lot of tards out there driving GTIs who don’t know how to fill up their gas tank regularly :-\
added tint and wheel spacers
Looks good. I wish fuel tanks were much bigger on this. Mpg is great but if tank isn’t big your range isn’t as sweet
on the highway some people have hypermiled 40mpg! Small tank is indeed lame, but I don’t go far too often