It has almost been two weeks since we picked up our new my13 polo gti and wanted to give my thoughts on the car and new CTH engine progress.

Engine: after 1200km on the clock now I have taken a few observations and wanting any new my13 CTH engine owners to confirm the following.

*oil consumption: Even though 1200km isn't much yesterday I pulled out the dipstick and it is still at the top oil line and hasn't seemed to chew any oil yet (fingers crossed). Also the oil is still crystal clear and looks like new out of The bottle.

*exhaust dust build up, this may or may not be caused from oil consumption but yesterday I washed the car for the first time and there was no evidence of exhaust dust over the back bar. Nor any black build up on the exhaust tips.

Fuel line rattle: although nothing extreme that you can hear normally. Yesterday I was driving beside and barricaded wall and in high gears 5th and 6th at low speeds under medium to high throttle I could slightly hear a feint rattle between 2k to 3.5k rpm. This can only be heard with the windows down and next to a wall with very carfull listening. The car has been booked into vw on Wednesday morning to be checked.

Thoughts on the car (good): quiet comfortable to drive for a daily driver, seats are firm and have a lot of adjustment. Interior is clean and labeled well, steering wheel is chunky but feels great. The aircon is cold as hell, dsg does its job accordingly and have had no false neutrals nor hesitations. The car is quiet to drive with the windows up and the sound system isn't to shabby even streaming music through the mfd Bluetooth. Vision is great but am not used to parking with no boot hanging out. The engine has plenty of power for a 1.4 and low gear high throttle is not necessary to climb hills with all the torque available at low rpms.

Thoughts on the car (bad): torque steer seems to be quiet servere especially when cornering and accelerating. Never though I would ever say this about a car but I feel that the car has a little too much power down low for a small car. Which is a major factor to torque steer, wheel spin/chirping at sub 4k rpm 1st to 2nd shifts at decent throttle. All of the above may factor in to high front tyre wear in the future. Also the dsg shifts are really sharp/hard in low gears with decent throttle. Although only minor I wish the passenger side mirror was bowed at the end like the driver side is, and the car seems to take so long to warm up front a cold start compared to our previous vehicles (atleast 15 mins).

That's all I can think of off the top of my head after only having the car for a very short period. Note that a lot of these things were not able to be looked at previous to purchase because at the time the dealership had no gti's in stock to test drive so we drove the 77tsi polo and the 118tsi golf and kinda put 2 & 2 together upon pre order.