For those who drive polo GTI

[gti_freak]

Do you feel that the 1st gear is not smooth enough. If i release the clutch too fast, the car produce shuddering. But if make it really slow, thats fine but i will start the car reli reli slow.
Anyone can explain?
Thanks!

[Tim]

sounds like you need more revs!

[ACTGTI]

I get nothing like what you are describing...

[Eddy]

Do you feel that the 1st gear is not smooth enough. If i release the clutch too fast, the car produce shuddering. But if make it really slow, thats fine but i will start the car reli reli slow.
Anyone can explain?
Thanks!

Hoyhoy.
I'm fairly sure that you will find it is the dog-bone bushing ( more or less the gearbox support mount ). VW has used the same bushing stiffness over the whole Polo range, which is not supportive enough for the GTI.
Guy Harding at Harding performance has some stiffer one's in production now, after doing a lot of experimenting with different stiffnesses. So keep an eye on his site, there are a few of us waiting on these things.
http://www.hp.net.au/

[gti_freak]

Also it is not that smooth when i change from first gear to second gear. While it is fantastic smooth when changing from 2 to 3 and 4
Help!!

[DaveMack]

Also it is not that smooth when i change from first gear to second gear. While it is fantastic smooth when changing from 2 to 3 and 4
Help!!

Read Eddy's post above.

Dave

[Ben_GTI]

Drive faster. Hold some more revs in first and blip the throttle during the 1-2 gearchange.

[DaveMack]

Yeah ... let the horses out ...

Dave

[gti_freak]

so is that me hold it to around 4-5 rev in the first gear and change it to second gear will become more smooth?Thanks for all u guys help coz i am a newbie!

[pomme]

So long as after your change your doing above 1,200 it shouldn't really be a problem.

The main thing is to get the speed of your gear change correct.

Lets just say in 1st you want to change at speed x.
Now in 2nd speed x are revs y.

All you have to do when you change from first to second is make sure you are releasing the clutch when the revs drop to y. This will make the shift alot smoother.

If you change to fast, the revs will still be too high... too slow and the revs will drop too low. In either case there will be lurching to get the engine upto the required revs y for that speed x in that gear.