mindless ramblings

Alright, finally past 1500km and stepped on it for the first time. Coming from the P5, the amount of torque is just ridiculous! I can’t imagine it chipped. Aside from that, fuel economy is staying fairly constant at about 400km per fill up. I’m not driving much anyways, commuting by bus is actually not too bad!

In the spirit of the name of this blog, I’ll just randomly blabber on about the GTI. I think I’m going to use the blog to just keep a running journal of the car, kinda like TrueDelta but with less statistics.

It’s been 20 days since we got the car and it’s been completely problem free. 2 tanks of gas (Shell 91 and Husky 92) have gone into the car. With just over 800km on the odometer, that works out to roughly 400km/tank  without really stepping on it at all. This appears to be expected though, and mileage will improve after 8000km.

One thing to look out for is topping up engine oil. The 2.0T seems to burn oil relatively fast, so a check will probably be done at 1000km in case any top up (VW 502.00 approved only!) is needed.

Besides that, everything is great. Seat warmers warm up quick, Climatronic keeps things cool (or warm) and the Gorilla Gear trunk liner is just awesome.

As of 845pm this evening, I am a Canadian Permanent Resident! It’s taken me a relatively short 10 months to get it, thanks to the British Columbia Provincial Nominee Program. The actual process of “landing” in Canada was really smooth and only took 10 minutes. The friendly lady at the Peace Arch customs gave my documents a quick look, welcomed me to Canada and gave me a little Canadian flag.

Next up are the more mundane things like reapplying for my SIN card, CareCard and that kinda stuff. Small price to pay to live in one of the best countries in the world!