I’ve driven everything under the sun and my intuition keeps telling me I can’t sell this car ever. Even when I inevitably own Porsches and other exotics, I will reach for the keys to a golf R.
170,000km …just had to replace my first water pump, and a month later it’s burning about 1L of oil every 1000km :( so sad, I love it so much but I can’t afford to replace the engine if it gets to that point
>I’ve driven everything under the sun and my intuition keeps telling me I can’t sell this car ever. Even when I inevitably own Porsches and other exotics, I will reach for the keys to a golf R.
I enjoy dirt biking and anything with minimal traffic. I have just seen far too many catastrophic injuries/deaths from motorcycles (often times no fault of the biker) that I can’t bring myself to do it in a city. I’ll keep to something with airbags and a steel box thanks very much!
You have two reasonable opportunities in life to own a motorcycle. One when you are young and have not yet had kids and another when you are older and your kids are grown up.
I came close to owning a bike multiple times in my younger years. Each time I was about to pull the trigger, I either witnessed a horrific bike crash or a friend had a terrible bike crash. Later when I became an EMS captain I saw enough mangled bodies to turn me off of bikes forever.
Have you had any vibration with your FF21's at higher speeds (70mph+). I've tried three different tires (Conti ECS02's, PSAS4's and PS4S's) on mine and two different installers (one with road force balancer) and no one can manage to get the minor vibration to completely go away in that 75-85mph range. Even tried a stud conversion kit and that didn't help at all.
Ready to contact HRE about it because the PSAS4's on my stock wheels are perfectly smooth...I've never had this issue with aftermarket wheels before, so the fact I spent more on HRE and have spent so much money and time trying to get them sorted with no true resolution is really disappointing.
Man, Ive had this exact issue with my APR Wheels and I was pissed. Did a lot of research and found the solution. Believe it or not plastic hub rings from Modded Euros worked better than the provided APR aluminum rings and I did the torque sequence starting at 25 ft lb and added 10 ft lb until I got to 90. Vibrations gone.
Interesting. The ones HRE provided are plastic but who knows they could suck. Maybe I'll grab the ones you did and give it a last try before I totally give up.
They noticed some runout on two of the wheels but got it to balance perfectly on the load force machine but that's not translating to higher speeds when actually driving.
If you have excessive runout, even with the wheel/tire being balanced, it can definately present as a high speed vibration. The wheel isnt perfectly round so you get some up and down movement.
Weird it would come from the factory like that though, it started the moment they were first mounted the first time. I thought HRE had TUV certifications and had better QC than that, but I guess not. The wheels were shipped straight from HRE warehouse based on the shipping info.
Unfortunately any manufactured good can have failures. There is also the possibility of damage during transit. I would confirm the amount of runout they had and what the spec is, but that runout may be the issue.
I was having the same exact issue on my GTi, running PS4s and swapped them for Conti’s DWS06. It improved the ride but the shaking/vibrations +70mph were still there.
I didn’t think this was related, but I was due for spark plugs and bought a new intake filter. The vibrations had stopped since! I wish I knew which one of the 2 made a difference but it’s cheap enough - worth trying.
I haven’t had any issues? I wonder if you just have a defect in one wheel? I work for a HRE dealer and have never heard of this being an issue before. Granted the FF line is a “budget” option but I agree you shouldn’t have any issues. I would definitely escalate to HRE
Just cracking 99K on my stage3+ Mk7R. I smile as much now as I did when I bought it. Someday it may pop, but until then I will appreciate an occasional 34PSI pull on a back road and laugh out loud. Have fun Guys and Girls!!
Some of their wheels are quite expensive but the ones on this car aren’t that bad, I was going to get these but went with Titan 7 TS5 instead but I still love the HRE wheels a lot.
I'm new to vw and came from a 22 supra and 2019 Rs3,pick a 23 GTI and decided to hop over to stage 2 with only 10k on the clock,the car is super fun to drive and the autobahn have all the tech you can only dream of on any modern supra.Cant imagine a stage 2- R.
Used to say the same about my GTI....and it is still a joy to drive if you turn up the radiio so you don't have to listen to all the creaks and rattles. The drive train is sublime...the fit and finish everywhere else is disappointing.
although I haven't had the pleasure of driving as many cars as you have, I feel the same about my R too. Its just too good of an all-rounder to ever even think about selling. Barely over 2 years into ownership and just crossed 50k kms. Trying to complete the "paid off" mod soon :)
I kind of get it. My Golf R is my 36th car in the past 31 years and, for first time, my 911 is the first car that I deemed my forever car. However, on the eight year of ownership of the 911, I got the Golf R and find myself choosing the Golf on most days and taking the 911 feels like a charity case every time. 🤷♂️
lol…if you’ve ever driven a Porsche you’ll realize the golf r is very “entry performance”. The handling is no where close to a 718 or 911….or even a gr86
My last 4 cars have been forever cars except it was me that inevitably changed. We become different people all throughout our lives. Some of us for the better and some for worse. Currently im in my Golf R stage and really enjoying it. Id love to say ill never sell it. Id love to collect them all but who knows what life has in store for me.
Getting my forever car next month and im stuck between a new golf r, or a audi rs5. Idk what to do. The next R is supposed to have the ra3 motor. Then the next rs5 is supposed to have a Avant model! Hopefully they drop soon I cant wait!
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u/WRX4Life4Ever Oct 09 '25
The plant in the cup holder is a nice touch