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    SilverfoxX, what would you expect to happen over the next couple of months, lag wise? Its not going to get better as the engine breaks in. Also I'm aware that the R's delivered overseas are 200kw's so the engine must easily handle the upgrade. Hardings have done about 90 stage 1` re-maps on R's and many are taken from dealership to have done prior to customer delivery...
    That said, I am going to take your advise and wait until the new year, but I will have it done. I don't know if its the Qld heat, but I'm finding the lag very pronounced and if I can rectify through a re-map, so be it.

    so when are you expecting to take delivery? are you in the last stages of 'The Wait'?
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    Quote Originally Posted by weewilly View Post
    BTW I love S mode, feel the engineers @ VW got it right IMO
    I'm with you WW. I take off in D and leave it until the car is warmed up so I'm not tempted to do any shennanigans. Then it goes into S and stays there. If I'm crusing in a 60-70-whatever zone, I just hit the cruise control button and it will use 5th/6th instead of idling high in 4th.

    Quote Originally Posted by weewilly View Post
    many are taken from dealership to have done prior to customer delivery...
    I don't subscribe to the school of waiting for run in reasons, it would just need a bit more self restraint to not belt it until you had a few more kms.

    I want to look into sway bar upgrades and retrofit satnav as well so I'll wait until the new year and do everything at the same time.

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    Quote Originally Posted by weewilly View Post
    SilverfoxX, what would you expect to happen over the next couple of months, lag wise? Its not going to get better as the engine breaks in. Also I'm aware that the R's delivered overseas are 200kw's so the engine must easily handle the upgrade. Hardings have done about 90 stage 1` re-maps on R's and many are taken from dealership to have done prior to customer delivery...
    That said, I am going to take your advise and wait until the new year, but I will have it done. I don't know if its the Qld heat, but I'm finding the lag very pronounced and if I can rectify through a re-map, so be it.

    so when are you expecting to take delivery? are you in the last stages of 'The Wait'?
    Will,

    How long have you had your weapon, a week..? the ECU is learning how you drive, it usually takes 3 tanks of fuel for it to get a bearing on what your driving style is and respond accordingly. I will take a wild guess and say the training you are providing is flat out all the time. If you had a v8 or a XRT6 the lag would be impercievable given the amount of torque. You have a 4 cyl that is waiting for that turbo to kick down so it is inevitable there will be delays.

    The remap will give you both bottom and top end so the torque uplift will hide some of that lag but I would bet that it will still need to learn your driving style.

    My NA Liberty took 50K to wear in properly, I noted at 5, 10, 15 and then 20K the car got looser and smoother in noticeable increments then it was progressive from that point. I also learnt how to drive at the top of the accelerator ( just seems to be a Jap car thing) as there is nothing to be gained from tromping it with so little torque. Not sure if the VW works that way but given that both the Subaru and the Golf are 2 litres and the torque band kicks in at 2500 it is a sure bet that the driving style is the same.

    So in summary go get the upgrade but there is a good chance you may be dissapointed as there are other factors that play in how the car performs. My simple advice is free and for my 2 cents a good way to learn about your car and enjoy the experience of factory delivered car then appreciate the modification when it is eventually applied.

    As for my wait time.. they said 1 March 2011, then September 2011 and now Late May 2011.. I will just wait till New Year for the confirmed date in the mean time I will just be green with envy you have yours for Christmas
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    Quote Originally Posted by dave_r View Post
    I'm with you WW. I take off in D and leave it until the car is warmed up so I'm not tempted to do any shennanigans. Then it goes into S and stays there. If I'm crusing in a 60-70-whatever zone, I just hit the cruise control button and it will use 5th/6th instead of idling high in 4th.
    Ooh, I'll have to try S in combo with cruise control and see what it's like! lol

    Quote Originally Posted by dave_r View Post
    I don't subscribe to the school of waiting for run in reasons, it would just need a bit more self restraint to not belt it until you had a few more kms.
    Yeah - I'm the same. Remember how you told me to use LC leaving the dealership? Well, I didn't do that. But I did use LC on my first day of ownership - when the oil was up to 90 degrees!

    How people wait several thousand Km's before doing so is BEYOND me....
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    Quote Originally Posted by Corey_R View Post
    Ooh, I'll have to try S in combo with cruise control and see what it's like! lol
    Haha yeh I found that one by mistake. I was using the paddles to go into 5th but after a while it would go back to S4. The missus looks at me funny using cruise control in a 60 zone

    Quote Originally Posted by Corey_R View Post
    Yeah - I'm the same. Remember how you told me to use LC leaving the dealership? Well, I didn't do that. But I did use LC on my first day of ownership - when the oil was up to 90 degrees!
    LOL good work, I haven't got around to it yet. And now that I think about it....why not? Hmm lunch time, looks like I'm going for a drive

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    So far i'm sticking to the run in stage as indicated in the owners manual, however i am finding it more difficult each time i drive the thing. I've only used 'Sport' mode once and that was by accident..
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    Quote Originally Posted by Prodigy View Post
    So far i'm sticking to the run in stage as indicated in the owners manual, however i am finding it more difficult each time i drive the thing. I've only used 'Sport' mode once and that was by accident..


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    Quote Originally Posted by dave_r View Post


    Less washing and detailing, more thrashing*

    * once warm
    You've just reminded me.....time to give the car a wash..
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    Quote Originally Posted by Prodigy View Post
    You've just reminded me.....time to give the car a wash..
    Need to find a happy balance between the both of us. Mine got a run with the gerni and thats about it hehe. Though it hasn't stopped raining for the past 2 weeks.

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    Quote Originally Posted by SilvrFoxX View Post
    [T]he ECU is learning how you drive, it usually takes 3 tanks of fuel for it to get a bearing on what your driving style is and respond accordingly.
    I've had a discussion with Guy_H about this, and specifically how long it takes for the car to effectively manage a change of program on an APR flashed car with multiple programs. As the tune constitutes a series of base maps, and the car learns adaptions on top of these, I'd suggest that the "new car" learning versus the "new tune" learning are effectively the same. Guy et al - please feel free to correct me here.

    The upshot of what he told me was this process takes a couple of hundred km or thereabouts to get a proper handle on things. I would be surprised if it'd take anything like three tanks of fuel, unless you drive like a nana and barely ever take it over 4k rpm.

    Quote Originally Posted by Corey_R View Post
    How people wait several thousand Km's before doing so is BEYOND me....
    *looks over at AdamD*
    Why do I feel like I've just been pwned?

    Rest assured, my car gets plenty of full-throttle action these days!

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