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When I read the list I was like "that's it?" I admittedly have a different perspective as I insisted on keeping a 944 going as a DD for about 15 years ("well that was expensive now I have to keep it awhile longer" x how many times)....

I have a stage 1 and can't believe how fast it is, particularly at highway speeds and up. I also like how it basically (a la what I understand Ruf's tuning philosophy to be) drives like a more-powerful n/a car at higher rpms rather than just torque (it matches my old departed 944 in this regard...

Sounds like you know what's going on here - so basically I don't really know how this part works, I suppose it's cables work in tension so it's different cables going down vs up so it's those cables that are not aligned right or whatnot?

I have my doubts on this since he said 1-2 upshift is just fine - worn synchros are most common on this (often abused, or at least heavily loaded - edit, er, rushed really - from a stop) shift and are very obvious.

What year GTI, miles, primary driving (city/highway/mix), and what repairs?

If you double-clutch to rev-match you're bringing everything to the right revs together, single-clutching you are not. I double-clutch for downshifts but single/just let the revs drop for up as a compromise because double-clutch upshifts it's a really quick thump-thump, not that it's hard to get...

Knock on wood as always on these matters, but I've had my '16 since new and it's knocking on 80k miles. So far warranty repairs were a) the horn and b) one headlight fixture as the bit that does the pointing crapped out. Non-warranty, shop did do a seal (RMS?) that was seeping when I had...

One thing you can try, is throwing up on the seat. It's highly visible, and then some.

YUP. It's some cattle dog or something, basically probably a good alarm and that's about it. I guess it would probably try to protect, but not be particularly tough about it would be my guess. Better than a Golden that just watches the action I suppose.

Yeah I have a buddy there. I keep saying buy a shotgun, he keeps saying they have a dog... OK

LOL I didn't notice that till you said it. Hell, I'd be more worried about getting shot than the car getting stolen. Possibly both at the same time I guess.

Oil is renewable btw. The theory is sound, it's how Russia is doing so well in the space these days. https://www.intechopen.com/chapters/41889

And when they burn, they really burn, like take the house with it (my garage is under my master bedroom = no farging way I'll ever park an electric there).

Depends on if markets are eventually allowed to decide (e.g. if current regimes finally collapse under the weight of all the BS, fiat currency, etc) or not.

The obvious answer of course is a manual, but that goes without saying OK OK, that's not my actual point - I just thought it would be funny to stir some crud. The thing is, when I got my car (2016), I was objectively interested in the DSG, so I test-drove both. The DSG struck me as too...

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Yup, one is closer than the other but with turbo induction (hence optimizing less necessary than cramming) nothing there is really impeding flow/turbulence etc where it matters. Looks like a nice hot-run-regularly situation to me.

BS. Driving these hard definitely is far better than babying them. I know a guy that had the Audi that was basically a Lambo (sorry, I forget - R8 or something?) and it needed the valves blasted at *20k* miles because even driving freeway speeds is such light running for that thing.

I'm at ~76k myself and no problems, no reduced MPG - in fact it's still impressive for how I drive. I asked my shop if I should do this soon and they were like "not how this thing is running."

Huh, I have not noticed this - I'll have to pay attention, do a couple hard rips right before filling. I've never had occasion to notice as when the fuel is that low *I* switch to a "gas saver" map LOL.