It's been about one and a half month ago since i got my Jetta. It was a long and not so smooth (almost) four month wait till i finally had it here in Germany. I have always liked the fifth generation GTI and when i saw the first pictures of the GLI i wanted it!! But to my disappointment it never arrived to our shores. I then had to do my best to try to get a Jetta that looks like the GLI, that was the only option i was left with...One and a half month and about 9000 Kilometres later i have gotten to really love my car. It is a big change from my Bora (http://forums.vwvortex.com/zerothread?id=2178802) that i used to have, especially powerwise. I find the Jetta very elegant, but most of all my appreciation goes to the oh-so smooth engine. I must say that it is by far the nicest engine i have driven, smooth and silky, still very temperamentful, it really has two totally opposite sides. A bit like Dr.Jekyll and Mr.Hyde....
9000 Kilometres behind and so far no problem. I am looking forward how this car will hold up as my old Bora was as good as maintenance free, just needed to fill up the gas basically. The only thing that i had found maybe a bit irritating is the armrest. I never seem to find a good position for it. Sometimes it too far out and when you stick it a bit back it slides back and forth too easily, maybe it's just me...The trunk is also a jewel, and is the reason why i never went for the GTI, it would have just been too small.
As for modifications that my car has gone through can be better seen on the pictures. As i wanted the GLI i ordered the car with a GTI front, GTI steeringwheel + pedals some extra aluminium trims in the interior and so on. Other stuff like OEM GLI sideskirts (BIG BIG thanks to Chris Hatzo at Heritage VW!!!) and M3 lip i fitted later. The suspension and wheels i got last Thursday, which was sort of a sad story. I was told when i ordered the parts that i would receive them in a couple of days, but actually turned out to take almost two months 
, can i say that i was a bit sour 
But after they actually started working on the car everything went really nicely and the guys were really super. A cool thing was that when the boss of the wheel shop saw my car with the wheels on he wanted to take a picure of it and put it on their web site! 
They ended up putting on three different kinds of wheels, one's beeing 20" EtaBeta Tettsut's X-Black, it looked so fanastic. They are not up yet but will check on them later and will post the pic of the 20"'s. Before they took the pictures i said i wanted to wash my car cause it would have annoyed me later on, so the wheel dealer offered a hand wash and even the boss was there washing and drying the car, now that was something else 
The car is not yet ready and i have some things i want to change. One is of course the chip. The performance is actually really good, did actually bottom the speedo a couple of weeks ago just outside Hamburg on an empty Autobahn with the Climatronic reading 245 and still picking, but had to let off cause of a 120 speed limit that came up....I'm not really a fan of 0-100 Km/h, but more like everything from 100 and up, it's good to live in Germany 
So, that's about it. Have had a lot of fun with the car and hopefully it will just get better in the future Thanks for your time!
Here are the pictures:
Original
19" RS6 ET35 with pirelli PZero Nero 225/35-19
Modified by Vulcan1 at 12:14 AM 7-3-2006
2006 Jetta TFSI "GLI"My old car
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