I am flirting with kicking my 2013 GTI to the curb.
Besides being on its third water pump and recently spending $300 out of pocket to have the headliner replaced under "warranty," (VW goodwill?), it has developed a super irritating rattle, gotten 19mpg out last two tanks, and it's not accelerating normally.
I'm assuming the acceleration and mpgs go hand in hand as they both started at the same time. The rattle started about the same time too, but not sure on that.
It's a 2013 dsg with 57k on it, been stage 2 APR since purchasing using an spm dp and bsh intake, stock cat back. No other mods.
Once the car is warm, when driving casually, power cuts out and comes back progressively while accelerating in 2nd-4th around 2k rpm. It's not all the time and it's not drastic, but there is a definite non linear acceleration curve. Once you get past approximately 3k it goes away.
Along with this occasional non linear acceleration, surge, hesitation, thing is really bad gas mileage. I did recently move from the east coast to the west coast, so I had to change from a 93 octane tune to a 91, but I'm getting 19mpg by my calculations.
In the past I've always gotten at least 24mpg even with spirited driving.
Any ideas as to what the problem(s) could be?
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Besides being on its third water pump and recently spending $300 out of pocket to have the headliner replaced under "warranty," (VW goodwill?), it has developed a super irritating rattle, gotten 19mpg out last two tanks, and it's not accelerating normally.
I'm assuming the acceleration and mpgs go hand in hand as they both started at the same time. The rattle started about the same time too, but not sure on that.
It's a 2013 dsg with 57k on it, been stage 2 APR since purchasing using an spm dp and bsh intake, stock cat back. No other mods.
Once the car is warm, when driving casually, power cuts out and comes back progressively while accelerating in 2nd-4th around 2k rpm. It's not all the time and it's not drastic, but there is a definite non linear acceleration curve. Once you get past approximately 3k it goes away.
Along with this occasional non linear acceleration, surge, hesitation, thing is really bad gas mileage. I did recently move from the east coast to the west coast, so I had to change from a 93 octane tune to a 91, but I'm getting 19mpg by my calculations.
In the past I've always gotten at least 24mpg even with spirited driving.
Any ideas as to what the problem(s) could be?
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It takes like 15 minutes to do all 4.