VW Golf/Passat GTE & Audi A3 E-Tron Buyers Guide (important things to watch out for!)
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- Опубликовано: 5 июл 2024
- In this video I'll show you some things to watch out for when shopping for a used Volkswagen Golf/Passat GTE or Audi A3 E-Tron!
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0:00 - Intro
0:45 - General things
2:40 - Failures
4:25 - Recalls
5:45 - Warranty
6:30 - Tuning
7:15 - Outro
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Thank you for sharing all of this informations with us. I have a Golf GTE 2016 and I’m so proud about the car. Keep going with Videos. Good Luck from Romania!
Thank you sir😀
I'm quite sure that you won't read these comments because this is a fairly old video, but I want to thank you for this detailed quide. I've been googling for an eternity trying to find information about the car so this video really helped me! I also went ahead and checked your other videos, and safe to say that you're doing an amazing job. I hope you all the best!
Thank you sir and yes i do read the comments, glad i could be of help to you!
Car is at the tuner right now, so when it’s back, i’ll post more content ;-)
Wish I had seen your video before buying mine. I did check few things but not the recalls. My car is on the way ... can't wait 😍. Love your channel.. awesome GTE you got there... keep it up !
Thanks my friend!🙏🏻 enjoy your new car!!
very good video 👍👍, i have a question about the dry bushings, any guide on how to lubricate ? Thanks
Quick question . Is the regeneration sound louder when a/c is on our cars guys ? It's like high pitched sound but as soon i turn off a/c , that sound goes away .
Got mine almost a year ago and I'm very satisfied since, great city car, great on long journeys and a head turner. Also you get a lot of benefits in my city for driving electrics/plug-in-hybrids
No way you actually said a GTE is a head turner
Hi! I’m going to buy one of these soon, but I have a question about the timing belt. How often does it need replacing, and how expensive is it? Cheers!
Goede informatieve video voor toekomstige GTE kopers.
Herkenbare klacht wat betreft die krakende vering 😄
Kan mij ook totaal vinden in de rest van jouw aangehaalde punten.
Wat mij het meest tegenviel aan de passat GTE waren de servicebeurten. Bijna een 1k elk jaar aan servicebeurten vond ik wel erg gortig. Helemaal omdat ik merendeel ellectra reed. Maar verder echt een heerlijke auto die na gechipt te zijn geweest echt zeer vlot was. GTE is ook echt aan te bevelen 👍🏻
(oja, toch nog een kleine kanttekening.. Voor het bedrag wat ik voor de passat GTE moest neer tikken had ik ook een zeer mooie audi voor kunnen rijden. Dat bleef altijd aan mij knagen 😄)
Great advice as always! Best to check recalls on RDW in the Netherlands? I rang VW and this was their recommendation (but maybe they were just trying to finish work early!)
You could, but the rdw recalls are mostly safety related from my experience.
HV battery recalls aren’t always listed there for some weird reason..
Good points! I notice that, in Germany, if you extend the warranty for a year before the end of the 2nd year, it only costs 16 EUR a month. So, that would help with peace of mind if you buy a 2nd hand car
Really useful thanks.
I've had my Golf GTE for 18 months. As you mentioned the recalls are crucial - mine has 80,000 miles and had the high voltage battery recall. Only certain dealers in the UK have the sufficiently trained mechanics to do this. Ended up with a brand new battery pack at no cost!
Very good for you, sir!! Not many can say this😉😉
@@ot2nie Really enjoy your content thanks - we seem to have a problem in the UK finding tuners who can unlock the extra 50 bhp from the electric motor. This would be very tempting if it was available here!
@@bronwenskinner741 thank you sir!
And i would ask check software updates to gearbox and engine when buying used
Hello Thank you for the infos, quick question here : i plan to buy a 2017 GTA with almost 150.000 KM, in general do you think that the battery is still solide and usuable ?
Yes in general they are very good quality and reliability!
Very good advices.
The only thing I didn’t knew when I bought mine was that GTEs can come with MIB 1 or MIB2. If I was buying one now, I’d look for one with MIB2. Not a deal breaker, but it makes some upgrades a lot easier (virtual cockpit for instance)
Thank you sir😉
and where is this info present before buying, so that potential buyers can confirm 1 or 2.
thank you
Great advices and awesome car! I had been wondering what could be causing those creaking noises from the suspension for a long time. You also talked about the car responding quite well to tunes which I have also been considering myself for my GTE but are you not worried about breaking the expensive transmission? From what I understand the official tolerance rating is 400nm but have heard several people talk about it being able to do more.
Thank you sir and yes, the gearboxes can handle more, since the mk8 gte has more torque from the factory (understated numbers) and has the same gearbox!
I had big transmission problems with my 2016 GTE and it had no tune. Is your transmission never jerky ? Now I have a 2019 GTE and sometimes I think it can also be a bit jerky.
bought a gte 2015 and the mechatronic failed. the dealer replaced it and luckily it was under the 6 months bovag warranty
Hello, watched many videos from you during the last year. I have a GTE and have always wondered if it is possible to swap the stock 1.4l engine with a Golf R engine. Do you know the answer to this? If it works I think it would be pretty insane considering you have the extra battery to kick with the golf R engine.
Ik think that 2.0 engine is to big top put next tot the electrical components of the gte
anything can be done, is only a matter of how much you're willing to spend.
clearly it won't be a PnP easy swap this part put in new part.
A lot of modifications will be needed, making in not worthy financially and performance wise.
It would be cheaper to take a golf R and upgrade that with electric motors and the whole EV stuff, using wheel pod style axial flux motors and a lot of tinkering there as well.
good morning. Here in Portugal we have the Cupra Formetor with the same version as this Golf. 1.4 E-tsi hybrid 204hp. The one I bought came from Germany with 33 thousand kilometers. I didn't even know since the video. I'll look into this battery recall. but as the car is from 2021 I think they must have already resolved this
Great video once again, can you tell me if it was worth buying the down pipe you have? i am considering buying one and would like to know what sort of bhp i should get from it. My car is running a GTS tuning box .
Hmm not really worth it in terms of power, since there’s a 370 hp gte here in the netherlands with stock (!!!) downpipe..
For sound, then yes worth it!
@@ot2nieDoes he have a standard exhaust system?
@@TheNorville2 yes!
@@ot2nie wow! so just a back box is enough. Does he have the same turbo that you have?
@@TheNorville2 he has a custom turbo, but the specs are very similar!
He thinks i should be able to produce similar figures.
My car is at the tuner at the moment and they’re cracking the software as we speak, but not all of the riddles have been solved yet..
Even een vraagje wat is de verbruik van de GTE als je niet op hybride rijd maar gewoon op bezine
6-7 l/100km als je niet teveel gas geeft
Vraagje je zou toch de start stop systeem kunnen uitschakelen met VCDS? Zoals ook bij de normale volkswagens modellen... Ik kan het niet geloven dat het alleen uit te schakelen is door te tunen
Nope kan niet, is allang geprobeerd ;-)
I am looking to buy one used this spring. What is your opinion on the mileage? Theres a lot for sale that has done around 100 to 115 thousand km (2015-2017), but if you pay the equivalent of 5-6 thousand euro, you can get one which is about 40 to 50 thousand (2017-2018). What would you do? I suppose the money is well spent, but it is also a lot of money you would have to instead use on future repairs.
Second, if you remap the engine as you mention, to get the extra 50 hp from the battery and around 30 hp from the engine in GTE mode, does that effect other parts of the car? I mean is there any negative consequences of tuning it? And what about the VW warranty? I dont suppose that still applies if you tune the car?
Thanks :)
I’d definitely buy the one with the lower mileage and the advantage typically pays itself off if you’re planning on keeping it for a while😉
Well tuning always puts more stress on the parts, but these gte’s have proven themselves right, since i know someone who has done 250.000 km and more than 150.000 km of that has been driven tuned and he drives his car hard!
Warranty applies only if they don’t know😉
Just remove the tune when taking it in for service like i’ve done and you’re good😀
@@ot2nie Makes sense. And yeah I am planning on keepin it 7-10 years at least. Thanks. How do you "remove" the tune? I would suppose you had to take it back to the shop/company that did the remap? Or is it something you can do on your own with the right equipment?
@@Dhundahl yep you have to take it back to the tuner and they would take it back to stock.
If you plan on keeping it for so long, i’d buy the lowest mileage you can afford (and enjoy the longest warranty period).
These cars are reliable, but having warranty for so long is a nice peace of mind i think😀
@@ot2nie I agree. Thanks for the advice :) I might check back once i actually acquire the car.
Does the warranty end when you tune the car? thank you for the video
Very officially, yes.
They don’t really check though, but it’s still a risk..
Just a question for every golf gte owner. What’s the fuel consumption on your gte? Mine does about 1:18. Litres per km. I’m very curious. I own it now for almost 4 months
Ligt er helemaal aan of je vaak oplaad, als je nooit oplaad is die minder zuinig.
Maar ik heb al 2 maanden niet getankt, rij veel korte stukjes in stad en vaak opladen.
Erg vergelijkbaar bij mij:
ruclips.net/video/Dw6efOqUnRE/видео.html
Ga jij volgend jaar je GTE verkopen of durf jij het wel aan zonder garantie?
Ik zou het wel aandurven, alleen kan ik nogal impulsief zijn, mocht ik op een dag door een autodealer lopen en een hele mooie 330e of s60 t8 of misschien wel weer een dikke ouderwetse slurper tegenkomen..
Kan het echt niet voorspellen ben ik bang, maar dat de gte over het algemeen erg betrouwbaar is, ben ik vrij zeker van!
Hoe zit het met de actieradius van de hoogvoltaccu? Deze schijnt nogal snel te verslechteren...
Nou nee hoor, weet niet hoe je daarbij komt?
Ik heb ze gezien met 3 ton op de teller en doen nog steeds 40-45 km vol elektrisch!
Dat is hetzelfde als wat ik deed toen hij nog 50k op de klok had😀
I drive a 2018 golf gte worried now about turbo failure !!!!!! Need remap then to disable stop start ?
Or just idle after a hard run...... it is one of the best cars I've owned I love it......
Start stop disable is the best option (tune only)!
Volkswagen has updated the software so the engine keeps running after high speed driving (and the oil is very hot), so it SHOULD be good.
I still believe it’s not optimal though, because in most cases it will still turn off the engine too early..
You can btw get it to idle longer by putting the car in battery charge mode and when the car is standing still: hold the brake and tap the gas, it will turn on and keep running, but you have to switch between modes which is annoying..
Weet je toevallig of GTE's geïmporteerd uit Duitsland ook recht hebben op recalls in Nederlandse dealers?
Yes, want die recalls gaan op VIN nummer.
Mijn vorige bmw kwam uit de VS en ik had ook nog recht op een recall hier😉
@@ot2nie Bedankt voor je reactie! Ik ga binnenkort een GTE importeren namelijk en je filmpjes helpen echt enorm.
@@MX-eq2or gelukkig😀😀
Kun je de golf 7 (7.5) gte onbegrenzen? En zoja weet je wat de uiteindelijke topsnelheid is?
Standaard begrensd op 230, ik heb ze met een tune rond de 270 zien doen.
Ik verwacht als mijn stage 3 tune klaar is, dat ie haast wel de 290 zou moeten halen, 300 zou bizar zijn🤣🤣
@@ot2nie 300 met een 1.4 TSI zou echt bizar zijn ja hahaha
@@svenvanheun90 Yes! hahaha
@@ot2nie ik zeg proberen 😉😂
2 questions for the GTE community please🙂:
Thank you Flying Dutchman for the great content about the GTE badged cars. The information is useful compared to the standard reviews on RUclips.
First question: I would like to learn more about the technology of the car. Does anyone know about a book or service manual specially for GTE models? I could not find one yet on the web!
Second question: Is the heating system based on a heat pump? or just a resistance load? Or maybe both? The heating draws as little as 2kWh but sometimes 12kWh. Does anyone knows why?
I own a Passat GTE (dec. 2016). Very satisfied about the car, specially since a stage 1 tune by the specialists in Lochem inspired by the videos on this channel .
😋
the gte community seems to be nonexistent based on the replies you didn't get for a year now....sadly, not here
Its a resistive heater.
The ac compressor does already do double duty by cooling the battery and the interior.
In addition, you have independently circulating coolant loops.
One low temp loop that does turbo, gearbox, electronics and intercooler.
This loop also has a heatexcanger from the AC and thus can actively cool the battery.
The high temp loop does the engine.
You have 3 electric pumps that are switched on when needed, reducing parasitic losses.
Also the heat exchanger for the interior is still a standard liquid bases one, that can use engine heat (when available) or uses a electric heater (this gives a reason why you can see fluctuations in heating current, if it can use engine heat, it will!)
Not quite sure why the author of the video claimed the trubo isn't cooled in hybrid mode, the electric pumps should still circulate if the combustion engine switched off!
any advice about the battery lifetime?
Battery typically lasts the life of the car, they hahe proven to be very reliable.
I’ve seen one fail at about 250.000 km, but it was the only instant and was repaired, so not replaced!
00:57 Die kentekenplaat houder kan écht niet 😄
Oud clipje😀