Just wondering if anybody has any other suggestions, I have an 04 plate black magic vrs, just approaching 45k miles.

I plan to run it into the ground (so to speak) and I do 20k miles a year at least.

Short term my plans are keep on top of basic mechanicals:

-replacing the rear tyres (3mm) next week then the front tyres when they need doing (6mm), currently have contisport contact 3 on rear and goodyear optigrip on front going to give kuhmo ku31's a go.

-replacing brakes front and rear, rears are worn and pads only have about 20% left, fronts have a bit of meat on.

-oil changes every 5k miles, using castrol edge 5w 30 through national tyres (cheaper than buying the oil myself).

-engine servicing will be done by awesomegti other than that as i was impressed by them. other bits have been done recently such as belts and waterpump, brake/clutch fluid changed.

Longer term plans:

-replace standard dv wil forge 007p.

-replace coil packs as they will probably get taken out by remap.

-remap, no idea which to go for?

-turbo back exhaust, looking at a blueflame or miltek really.

-replace dampers and springs, thinking of koni fsd's and maybe even oem springs so as to retain standard ride height as i don't really want to lower due to speed bump issues.

I don't particularly want to mod the car heavily, the reason being my priorities lie elsewhere. Anything else I should consider over the next few years?

-oil changes every 5k miles, using castrol edge 5w 30 through national tyres (cheaper than buying the oil myself).

Why you using 5w 30 are you on fixed service. Think you shoud be using 5w 40 or 10w 40 for a variable service.

Longer term plans:

-replace standard dv wil forge 007p.

-replace coil packs as they will probably get taken out by remap.

-remap, no idea which to go for?

-turbo back exhaust, looking at a blueflame or miltek really.

-replace dampers and springs, thinking of koni fsd's and maybe even oem springs so as to retain standard ride height as i don't really want to lower due to speed bump issues.

I don't particularly want to mod the car heavily, the reason being my priorities lie elsewhere. Anything else I should consider over the next few years?

Rest of your requirements seem ok, Awesome GTI great place to allow work on your car.

Forge DV good replacement

No point replacing coil packs unless they go, just wasting money doing that. Still on the same coilpacks with 3 remaps done.

I have blueflame turbo back , nice fit and system

Koni FSD's are a great setup , you can use H&R springs that only lower the car 15mm which work very well with FSD's

I would recomend you get a rear anti roll bar, this alone is better than a suspension swap.

Edited 15 February, 201016 yr by Bowders1

Why you using 5w 30 are you on fixed service. Think you shoud be using 5w 40 or 10w 40 for a variable service.

I think my car is set to fixed servicing, and when it went to awesome they used 5w 30 vw spec oil in it. Without reading up on oils thats what a lot of people use so it should be fine?

I think my car is set to fixed servicing, and when it went to awesome they used 5w 30 vw spec oil in it. Without reading up on oils thats what a lot of people use so it should be fine?

Yep it is used for fixed service only. So you must be on that. So no worries there. Awesome know there stuff

If you are doing 20K+ a year and you want to run it into the ground then you should consider LPG conversion. about £1500 for a good system and that will be recovered in the first year-18months then half price motoring until it dies HTH

Do the exhaust before you have it remapped then get a custom map, if you get a generic map it won't take advantage of the turbo back exhaust.

Also as said above a rear ARB is a must.

As far as oil goes it needs to meet VAG spec 502.00 if it's fixed interval servicing and 504.00 if variable servicing.

As CE says about the order of zorst and remap, and as for where, well you already say you like Awesome.

Oil-wise, I don't think what spec you're using matters much as long as you swap the filter at least every other change given you're halving the fixed service change frequency. I would use a full synthetic on a turbo petrol though, particularly with a remap.

As already said, if you do the RARB mod then you may find you don't want to bother with the springs and shocks. It's that good!

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Cheers for the replies.

I'll probably stick with servicing at awesome and intermediate changes with national tyres, the local one to me are ok and I can get oil and filter changed for £30.60 with fully synthetic. I'm using fully synthetic throughout, not sure if its castrol that awesome use but it does say fully synthetic on the invoice.

I'll have to get some pennies together, next on the list is probably an exhaust the standard one is just far too quiet apart from anything else.

I've tried searching does anybody have any soundclips of the blueflame cat back or the miltek non resonated?

Cheers for the replies.

I'll probably stick with servicing at awesome and intermediate changes with national tyres, the local one to me are ok and I can get oil and filter changed for £30.60 with fully synthetic. I'm using fully synthetic throughout, not sure if its castrol that awesome use but it does say fully synthetic on the invoice.

I'll have to get some pennies together, next on the list is probably an exhaust the standard one is just far too quiet apart from anything else.

I've tried searching does anybody have any soundclips of the blueflame cat back or the miltek non resonated?

If you pop round to mine i can give you a demo of the Miltek plus one or 2 other mods i have.