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wavey6

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Post #1
I would like to hear to some GTI6 brag stories, what made you really want a 6, whats has been some of your best or worst moments, what do you hate most about it etc etc. For many years I have been a PUG fanatic but saying that I've only ever taking interest in the 205 and 306.

It all started when a friend thought me how to drive in a cul de sac I was only 16 Big grin within hours I took the car out onto the public roads, the horror on most peoples faces as we fled up and down zigzagging around Fulham Broadway was show worthy also jail worthy but hey, after 10 or so minutes I got the hang of it and the starers had become void yeeee hah...

After we or I had crippled the Renault five in all of 3 days, I decided an upgrade was needed both my mates had Golf GTI's, so hey I have to get a GTI right, so as you do I started goggling the cars driving along the main road nothing caught my eye until along came a miami blue 1.9 205, I was stunned like I had just seen a Ferrari giving it the beans and I'm 14, the body kit, the stripes, the pepper pots, the lettering along the side petrol filler, the shape, the lion Love

To be continued.......


Would like to hear about any adventures you've had in the 6 Whistle

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Posted 5th Nov 2013 at 23:58
dangti6

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Post #2
All the adventures I had in a 6 involved driving away at speed bare foot with my pants around my ankles.

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  • Posted 5th Nov 2013 at 19:44
    scotzman

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    Post #3
    My adventures in a 306 started in 2000, I went to view a 106 gti and ended up buying an ex demonstrator Rallye, all downhill from there.
    Always had pugs, got my first 205 gti in '94 when I was 20, I must have been mad as hot hatch insurance was nuts back then.

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    Posted 5th Nov 2013 at 20:07
    ian7675

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    Post #4
    I bought one when they were brilliant, I sold it when I got done by a modern diesel.

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    Posted 5th Nov 2013 at 20:13
    mjt4130

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    Post #5
    I used to own a 205 GTI. A mate and I were heading across to North Wales, for a spot of mountainbiking and a p**s up with a few others at the Grapes at Blaenau. The back seats were down and we had packed the hatch to the roof with bikes and stuff. We got to Betws at dusk and topped the tank up with the good stuff. This was before the road from Betws to Blaunau was widened by dynamiting the cliffs, so was looking forward to giving my mate a twisty hell ride into the mountainsBig grin We got to the turn off to Blaunau, to see a diablo red 6 take the same junction. The guy in the 6 dropped the hammer and I spent the next 15 odd minutes trying my best to stay with him, using everything the little pug had. As we got to the big climb up to kyber pass, the 6 pulled away from us and disappeared up the mountain. We got to the pub and my mate rolled a joint to calm us down and I decided I wanted a 6 Thumbs up
    Posted 5th Nov 2013 at 20:49
    superchargedblack1997gti6

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    Post #6
    I bought one when a freind owned one at a time I was driving a scooby and the rawness and excitement of the gti6 was much more fun than the dullness I found in my scoob. Unfortunately after many years I've now spent far too much on gti6s. but still love driving them as Ian says though getting whooped by an Astra tdci is a little embarrassing.
    I still maintain that for the 1-2k budget they are amongst the most fun cars that don't cost £s when they break.

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    Posted 5th Nov 2013 at 20:49
    6waysforward

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    Post #7
    My best moment in a 6 was...

    I was driving along the A13 london bound one friday night a few years ago. I was in the fast lane behind a mondeo or similar, he then pulled over to the middle lane.

    To my amazement i saw some kind of supercar / kit car that i had never seen before so i started slowly to catch up just to have a gander and work out what the hell it was.

    Anyways not really paying attention and still trying to catch up to see what it was, i realise we are doing over a ton.

    So i keeps going and going and going. Before i know it i am off the clock and the supercar / kit car pulls into the middle lane and lets me get up beside him.

    He smiles and gives me a wave and before i knew it, GONE. I could not belive what happened. I was flat out in the 6 and he pulled away like a ariel atom off the line.

    Anyways he let me catch up again and get a quick picture with him putting his thumb up. He then proceeded to f**k off very quickly which i managed to film while still off the clock.

    Gob smacked i set out finding what the hell it was. After 2 months i finally found out what it was...................................................................................................














    A 250mph monster. No wonder the thing f**ked off.
    Think he was just impressed a old 306 was doing over a ton LOL

    Anyways this was 7 years or so ago and the phone got lost so i have no picture proof.
    In one way it makes it more special to me as a memory but in another way i really wish i had the pics and video showing my 6 off the clock and that ultima taking off.

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    Posted 5th Nov 2013 at 21:50
    thugpuggin

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    Post #8
    ^^ Looks like a standard HDi to me

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    Posted 5th Nov 2013 at 23:31
    robthe6

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    Post #9
    couple of years ago. me and my best mate were heading to his an randomly decided to take the by pass in the 6. as the road curved round to the left round about to join on to the by pass. we see a white caged 106gti tearing straight across the round about from right to left with a slammed blue mx5 trying to give chase. I dropped a cog in to 2nd an screamed the 6 on to the round about joining the chase. overtaking the mx5 on the outside as I join hitting 3rd. im past the mx5 without even trying. I see the 106 less then a 100meters away an as I roll the cogs on I reel him in. im flat in 5th an gently rolling by the 106gti he looks over and I hit 6th an just pull away like a train. they didn't stand a chance. Smile never want to get rid of the 6

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    Posted 5th Nov 2013 at 23:46
    mattgti6phase2

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    Post #10
    I would set my 6 on fire if a tdci Astra even got near me.

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    Posted 6th Nov 2013 at 00:05
    walker_texasranger

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    Post #11
    I got done by a 4 door Astra the other week... Well, I say done, he wasn't pulling away but neither was I gaining, and mine was cammed. Obviously when we got to the speed limit I came off the gas Thumbs up

    Fact is, the 6 engine just isn't that torquey low down, most boring dervs have as much torque as an XU10J4RS if not more, just not as much BWAAAAP at top end and by the time you hit the real power the Derv is off. My vectra is running just under 200bhp and 275lb/ft of Torque and was easily quicker than the 6. Returns nearly 60mpg on a run too (yawn)

    However... If you want cornering, 7250rpm, awesome induction noise, old skool cool and a flat empty wallet theres nothing to beat it Love

    I've had 8 306's now, got my first one when I was 19. I had a white Corsa at the time and my mate had a phase 1 1.4 XL. I had always liked the look of the 306 so we sawpped cars, it started there really LOL Got my first phase 3 which was a moonstone HDi in 2006, paid 4 grand for it which to me at 21 was a fortune! I remember being really chuffed that my insurance was only 900 quid too. I went travelling after that and whilst in a youth Hostel in Melbourne one very early morning (a bit canned up) I discovered 306gti6.com The rest, as they say, is history. When I got back from travelling all I wanted to do was own one of these, I nearly bought a black one that was Rude Boi's car (anyone remember him?) Then I manned up and decided I wanted some Gaystone back in my life. I found one and drove it all the way home from Bournemouth to Sheffield. Been skint ever since LOL

    My adventures in the 6 mainly involved wasting a lot of fuel going the very long way home nearly every night, emptying my bank balannce ten times over on 'improvements' that it didn't really need. Obsessing over every squeek, niggle and worrying drip of oil when I should have just been enjoying the thing.

    Regrets? That Ive owned three now and never been on a track in one.

    That is all LOL

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    Posted 6th Nov 2013 at 06:40
    gnrlee Forum Admin

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    Post #12
    My story started back in 2004
    I lived in Liverpool at the time with a now ex
    1 street away from hers was a very nice 106 gti on cyclones,
    At the time I was driving my 1st car a 1.1 106 Aztec in Miami blue,.

    I spent ages looking for a nice 106 gti for when I came into some money I was owed
    I'd already seen Jokers Moonstone gti6 and fancied a bit of that but
    Though
    A I could never afford one of those and
    B I could never get insured on one,..

    Some time passed I got my pay out and after
    Seeing Jokers new Astor on Lions was like,..
    Some one had just paraded the woman I knew I wanted to marry
    Right past me!
    Knowing Ryan/Joker for a number of years before then I went to see him about his car
    Mainly to compliment him on it and find a little more on it,..
    He said how I should get one! and after I'd actually looked into it
    I found I could easily get one and insure it,..
    I offered to buy his but he was having non of it,..
    So I set out my search and found this place,..

    I signed up
    And put out my feelers for an Astor on Lions
    Which got me some roasting but I found one
    Owned by a member called Fannyfaz I drove all the way from Liverpool to
    Just outside London for it the drive back was immense!!!

    I paid a record £7k for it in 2005
    But to me was worth every penny like a lot of you have been skint ever since,
    I've met some great people on here and my entire mechanical experience I owe to this car
    And a few members on here,
    I never modded for power due to just being a road car, IMO I doesn't need it!
    But I've hit a dilemma,..

    I'm 33 now and want something more grown up,.
    But getting rid of the 6 I think would gutt me,..
    I've also never done a track day so,..
    After chatting with Jeffers the other day I think
    I should at least do one to decide the fate of my car!

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    Posted 6th Nov 2013 at 07:55
    Niall

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    Post #13
    I always used to hate them when i had a 106. Thought the 106 was a much better car than the 306 and then my mate bought a 306 meridian as a run about and as soon as i got in it, my opinion was changed. Much better than the 106, handling was great even in meridian spec and it went well. So i bought one! a 1.8XS which i had some great fun in and tbh, wish i still had but it rotted away so had to be scrapped. Day i decided the fate of it, i looked on auto trader and found the 6 i have now 2 roads away from me that had just been stuck up. This was 9am and by 6pm that evening, i had gone to the bank, got the money and was driving about in it!
    I always have thoughts about getting rid seeing as i don't need it but every time i see it on my drive and the amount of time and effort i have put into it, i just can't. It handles like its on rails, goes fairly well and sounds great and i met so many good friends though these forums so it sort of means something to me in that respect.
    Until pugfest, I had never been on a track (if you can call prescott that really) and after 1 run, i bloody loved it so decided the car is staying for now and being charged ready for show/track season next year.
    Posted 7th Nov 2013 at 21:33
    7057sam

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    I think must been 4/5 years ago I by chance got a xsi 16valve had always been in to modding car but just loved the 306 look.i then added ph3 bumbers and headlights and was looking very presentable. By this point though I really wanted a 6 after the fitting one close a went for a test drive in it and immediately loved it.its was and still is a extremely under rated car.

    I eventually sold it moved on to a accord type r which was definitely different Unsure and within a year I had a rallye Big grin

    Then spent the next 3 years making it caged low boost track car.i learn a few tracks in the rallye and it got me hooked even with relatively s**t suspension (ta technics) its handled great.

    Then when bang, sold the bits, kept some for my next project.

    Currently having 306 break which the girlfriend loves but with the full intension of getting another one in the summer.with set plan on what I want to build it for (track) and keep my tdci I think I'll have the perfect compromise

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    Posted 7th Nov 2013 at 23:20
    jimmyhackers

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    Post #15
    my first car was a phase 1.4 306, stripped it out made it as fast as a 1.4 peice of turd could be and i loved it.

    then i got old enough to be able to afford insurance on a 6...and i realised what people said by if you want to make yoru car faster just start with a bigger engined faster car.

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    Posted 7th Nov 2013 at 23:33
    rikky Pikey

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    Post #16
    does that rule apply to you wanting to tune an xsi engine up to gti6 power? LOL

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    Posted 8th Nov 2013 at 13:40
    bennn

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    Post #17
    Had 2 6's now and TBH I think I prefer my HDI.

    There is a real sense of occasion when attempting an overtaking manouvre that you just don't get with a GTI 6 LOL

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    Posted 8th Nov 2013 at 14:31
    walker_texasranger

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    Post #18
    rikky wrote:
    does that rule apply to you wanting to tune an xsi engine up to gti6 power? LOL


    This LOL

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    Posted 8th Nov 2013 at 14:32
    buzzbrightyear

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    Post #19
    I can remember my dad having a brand new d turbo for a week from work when they very very first came out, it felt rapid, seemed to pin me back in the seat really well, I always rememberd that and that's what made me want a 306, thing is I think they only had 90bhp when they first came out so f**k knows why it felt like an animal, maybe it was as I was very young, anyway when I eventuallygot old enough to drive and passed I got a dturbo s, rolled it after 9 months and nearly killed myself , I then got a 5 door xrdt, then the 6 I have now.

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    Posted 8th Nov 2013 at 15:24
    rikky Pikey

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    Post #20
    he was probably just jolting it along. i used to tell my brother that my 306 had nitrous built in and pressed the radio stalk back whilst jolting the car forwards in 2nd gear

    FTW

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    Posted 8th Nov 2013 at 15:28
    buzzbrightyear

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    Post #21
    it was the torque that made it feels so quick, plus my dad always drove like a fairy until he got that, I wasn't used to been pinned back, I liked it LOL

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    Posted 8th Nov 2013 at 15:32
    bennn

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    Post #22
    buzzbrightyear wrote:
    it was the torque that made it feels so quick, plus my dad always drove like a fairy until he got that, I wasn't used to been pinned back, I liked it LOL


    Haha the idea of being pinned back in a D-Turbo. My HDI wouldn't pull a foreskin back LOL

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    Posted 8th Nov 2013 at 15:35
    rikky Pikey

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    Post #23
    are you sure? my HDI wipes the floor with my GTi6 in every scenario. i've got GTi6 badges on it too at the moment and with the leather interior nobody knows whatsoever

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    Posted 8th Nov 2013 at 15:54
    bennn

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    Post #24
    Oh don't get me wrong I still cook some fools from the cosy confines of my leather clad 306 HDI interior (actually cooked 4 in a row the other day) but I do so less frequently and when I do the experience is usually pretty hairy.


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    Posted 8th Nov 2013 at 16:07
    rikky Pikey

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    Post #25
    i spray them with extinguisher when they eventually catch up

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    Posted 8th Nov 2013 at 16:10

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