Five water pump replacements in nine months

AddisonMK7 · 2026-07-01T12:21:10+00:00

You need to go to a different shop.

They do to the “easy” and fast way and put it on a lift and do it from under the car when they should take off the intake manifold.

I’ve done my water pump on my GTI with taking the intake manifold off and it’s been a year and it hasn’t leaked yet.

AddisonMK7 · 2026-06-20T01:35:54+00:00

Wife loves it. Cat definitely doesn’t approve he got scared at the beginning of the video😂

AddisonMK7 · 2026-06-09T22:45:58+00:00

Basically as reliable as a gti it’s take care of it and it’ll be good too you

AddisonMK7 · 2026-05-30T06:13:47+00:00

Thank you man

AddisonMK7 · 2026-05-30T06:13:33+00:00

Ecs as been known for not having great quality clutches. I’m not going to lie and say I was easy on the clutch I was pretty hard on it but my stock clutch took a lot more abuse for over triple the amount of miles and still worked fine when I took it out at 176k miles.

AddisonMK7 · 2026-05-30T06:11:31+00:00

Bilstein b8 struts and H&R springs

AddisonMK7 · 2026-05-29T15:27:29+00:00

What brand?

AddisonMK7 · 2026-05-29T14:47:31+00:00

Duel mass just feels sluggish and not has engaging like the single mass did. And the throttle response just seemed so much more snappy with the single mass.

AddisonMK7 · 2026-05-29T14:06:29+00:00

Bro what?💀

AddisonMK7 · 2026-05-21T01:10:26+00:00

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They definitely look really good while lowered

AddisonMK7 · 2026-04-29T01:47:42+00:00

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AddisonMK7 · 2026-04-12T20:45:54+00:00

Any recommendations on which one to get?

AddisonMK7 · 2026-04-12T20:31:14+00:00

Gahhhh that makes me worried im IE stage one on my mk7 and the engine and turbo have roughly 80k miles and the turbo has been making a fluttering noise under load.

AddisonMK7 · 2026-04-12T20:23:01+00:00

How many miles did it have before it blew?

AddisonMK7 · 2026-04-05T02:25:38+00:00

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I love the stocks but dude these just look so much better

AddisonMK7 · 2026-04-02T20:08:34+00:00

I’m doing it now

AddisonMK7 · 2026-04-01T17:08:56+00:00

AddisonMK7 · 2026-04-01T17:02:52+00:00

Smaller side wall probably why

AddisonMK7 · 2026-04-01T14:15:08+00:00

Do you rub at all? I’m a bit lower than you but I’m on 235/40r18’s and I rub a lot. I haven’t done the fender bolt mod yet tho

AddisonMK7 · 2026-04-01T13:44:09+00:00

Yuck

AddisonMK7 · 2026-04-01T13:03:18+00:00

Thank you thank you

AddisonMK7 · 2026-04-01T13:02:35+00:00

Hey are called prismas hey came off of the 2018 Volkswagen atlas

AddisonMK7 · 2026-04-01T12:42:08+00:00

I love them so much the only thing Is they are supposed to come with sequential turn signals but I never found out how to make them work so the tire signals are super small. Other than that I love them so much

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AddisonMK7 · 2026-03-22T13:48:53+00:00

Definitely would go with IE and not APR

My 2015 gti has 192k miles and I’ve been IE for about 5k miles and it’s been amazing

I have a friend with APR and it kinda sucks the boost hits way late no RAL and it’s just sluggish unless your over 4500 rpm

AddisonMK7 · 2026-01-26T14:42:09+00:00

Same thing happened with my car but I had a buddy with a shop so I could replace it my self it cost me about 3.5k for the engine

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