golfdave
Autocross Champion
- Location
- Scotland (U.K.)
- Car(s)
- Mk7 Golf GT Estate
Again, I've not been driving the car much due to the lockdown where I am. However, I have finally swapped (yesterday) back onto my summers!! We still had snow in early May, along with freezing nights! This put the swap over date further back, plus for the past two weeks I've been busy with other stuff!
A couple of weeks ago when we had a clear spell in the weather I gave the car a through clean which included full underbody rinse, foam, rinse, main body rinse, foam, rinse, iron remover, & tar remover on a MF cloth, & two bucket clean all as per Gtechniq using their stuff. The Ceramic coating, applied in October 2014 is still good, just got to increase the water beading by reapplying the sacrificial top coating (2C v3) this year as it wears off every couple of years!.
This morning I took the car for a nice 33mile drive over varied roads & speeds & the remap is proving its worth! There is a section of 3mile single track back road which used to be 60mph (stupid), but has been limited to 30mph for the past two years. This road has very little traffic on it, & for a 1mile section there are lots of bluebell flowers which grow at the side of the road, so if there is no traffic I slow right down to see when they are flowering (now). The car was able to drive in 2nd gear with 750-800rpm at 7-9MPH consuming 40-45MPG without stalling or hesitating, or sounding rough!! Before the remap the car would have required 1st gear for that speed & would have been stalling etc.!!
I also got 47.4MPG on todays drive, however some of that "gain" is from the summer tyres, as before on the winters I would have got about 3MPG less at these air temps.
All in all, still very happy with the remap, as the car is as it should have been from the factory, especially for a "GT" trim spec!!..
EDIT:- Totally forgot that whilst I was swapping the alloys, I inspected all the suspension & brake components, as I usually do. This time I noticed that the front drivers side brake splash shield was rattling when hit hard. Basically the shield had rusted through itself around the lowest of the three bolts that fix it! This is very common, & when I did the brake upgrade back in 2016 I had placed copper grease between the cast iron hub carrier & the shield, & used stainless steel screw bolts to hopefully prevent it! Anyway it'll be fine for now, but I'll replace both sides when I swap back onto the winters as it will be around the time I service the Car & you have to remove the calipers to remove the disc to get to the screws which fix the splash shield!!..aarrgghh!!..
A couple of weeks ago when we had a clear spell in the weather I gave the car a through clean which included full underbody rinse, foam, rinse, main body rinse, foam, rinse, iron remover, & tar remover on a MF cloth, & two bucket clean all as per Gtechniq using their stuff. The Ceramic coating, applied in October 2014 is still good, just got to increase the water beading by reapplying the sacrificial top coating (2C v3) this year as it wears off every couple of years!.
This morning I took the car for a nice 33mile drive over varied roads & speeds & the remap is proving its worth! There is a section of 3mile single track back road which used to be 60mph (stupid), but has been limited to 30mph for the past two years. This road has very little traffic on it, & for a 1mile section there are lots of bluebell flowers which grow at the side of the road, so if there is no traffic I slow right down to see when they are flowering (now). The car was able to drive in 2nd gear with 750-800rpm at 7-9MPH consuming 40-45MPG without stalling or hesitating, or sounding rough!! Before the remap the car would have required 1st gear for that speed & would have been stalling etc.!!
I also got 47.4MPG on todays drive, however some of that "gain" is from the summer tyres, as before on the winters I would have got about 3MPG less at these air temps.
All in all, still very happy with the remap, as the car is as it should have been from the factory, especially for a "GT" trim spec!!..
EDIT:- Totally forgot that whilst I was swapping the alloys, I inspected all the suspension & brake components, as I usually do. This time I noticed that the front drivers side brake splash shield was rattling when hit hard. Basically the shield had rusted through itself around the lowest of the three bolts that fix it! This is very common, & when I did the brake upgrade back in 2016 I had placed copper grease between the cast iron hub carrier & the shield, & used stainless steel screw bolts to hopefully prevent it! Anyway it'll be fine for now, but I'll replace both sides when I swap back onto the winters as it will be around the time I service the Car & you have to remove the calipers to remove the disc to get to the screws which fix the splash shield!!..aarrgghh!!..
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