The Mega Mk7 Golf GTI/GTD/R thread

Toyotafanboi

Munurty wrote: »

Has anyone changed the timing belt on a GTD yet?

I'm approaching 160,000kms.

The service department told me 120k on the phone today but
I think they gave me a different number in the past.

Currently one fault on the car. The multifuntion steering wheel disconnects very regularly and I lose all buttons, adaptive cruise and DSG paddles.
Dealer wanted around €450 for a new steering wheel module but it seems more like a loose connection to me.

The belts on those are due at 210k kms.

It does sound like a faulty clock spring, they are fairly common to give trouble on most VAG stuff. You'd rarely see the cause of anything actually being loose connection.

GustavoFring

DaveyDave wrote: »

Anyone know when/why the long term fuel economy resets? Just looked and it's at 106km.

Resets after x number of hours.

deceit

Would any of you on this thread know where I could buy this for a golf r that will deliver to Ireland?
https://www.awesomegti.com/shop-by-car/audi/a3-8l/apr-adjustable-short-shifter-and-side-shifter-kit-6-speed-manual/

deceit

deceit wrote: »

Would any of you on this thread know where I could buy this for a golf r that will deliver to Ireland?
https://www.awesomegti.com/shop-by-car/audi/a3-8l/apr-adjustable-short-shifter-and-side-shifter-kit-6-speed-manual/

I'm sure I've bought stuffed off them before.
If not use parcel motel and get the extra insurance just in case .

deceit

BrownFinger wrote: »

I'm sure I've bought stuffed off them before.
If not use parcel motel and get the extra insurance just in case .

Thanks for the reply, this is the only thing they wont post out of the UK. All other items they will, I can even get a racing line one from them posted to Ireland.

DaveyDave

BrownFinger wrote: »

I'm sure I've bought stuffed off them before.
If not use parcel motel and get the extra insurance just in case .

I wonder would they cancel the order for doing that though? They have a little check box to say "I'm from the UK" so seem to make it clear. I know of one or two websites that cancel Parcel Motel orders even with legit card details. Worth a try though.

Neilw

Get it sent to parcel motel.

Hebegeebee

I’m surprised by AwesomeGTi not sending that. You could also use An Post’s AddressPal.

Alternatively get the VW shortshifter part: 5Q0711046K. Not sure of the price locally but can be got from Germany for less than €40 ex P&P.

deceit

Hebegeebee wrote: »

I’m surprised by AwesomeGTi not sending that. You could also use An Post’s AddressPal.

Alternatively get the VW shortshifter part: 5Q0711046K. Not sure of the price locally but can be got from Germany for less than €40 ex P&P.

I didn't know VW did one themselves, I might pick this up then.

Edit:
Got work done and was told this was the missing part (originally was a short shift in the car) so needed to replace with this, I thought this was the default when I looked it up.
I might check with a VW dealer here, see if they can source it.

noelf

Golf R power is to drop back to 296 bhp according to Autocar due to WLTP changes . The cars will be fitted with a more restrictIve exhaust system .

The move will affect cars currently on order. Volkswagen will contact customers awaiting their cars to be built .. Also VW will drop building manual and 3 door cars .. I suppose retail prices will stay the same ..

SaintsYB

I read a couple of weeks ago that the GTD is also losing the manual option, though I can't remember if I read the 3 door was also going.

Quazzie

No 3 door option is a disgrace. I fúcking hate 5 door performance golfs

Toyotafanboi

To be fair the vast majority of performance Mk7's are already 5 doors, it's unusual enough to see a 3 door as it is.

bazz26

They are one of the few cars that look better in 5 door than 3 door imo. It's the trend now due to low demand, Audi have dropped the 3dr A3 and S3 also.

DaveyDave

I'd say a lot of the performance Golf models are DSG too? There seems to be feck all regular Golf DSG models in Ireland when I looked at the sales stats, a lot of the lads on the UK forums also seem to be running DSG.

hooch-85

I just drove a 1.4 TSi 150bhp highline today, I must say I was impressed, great spec inside and it felt quick enough really but i was driving it around town.

Considering ordering one for 191 with the new 1.5 Evo engine as long as the prices don't change too much after WLTP.

kooga

hooch-85 wrote: »

I just drove a 1.4 TSi 150bhp highline today, I must say I was impressed, great spec inside and it felt quick enough really but i was driving it around town.

Considering ordering one for 191 with the new 1.5 Evo engine as long as the prices don't change too much after WLTP.

If only the 1.5 evo engine would come here - don't be tempted by the 1.4 in the mark 7.5 as it's an older engine than the 1.4 in the mark 7 /hopefully WLTP will kill off the 1.4 and we will get the 1.5 !

hooch-85

kooga wrote: »

If only the 1.5 evo engine would come here - don't be tempted by the 1.4 in the mark 7.5 as it's an older engine than the 1.4 in the mark 7 /hopefully WLTP will kill off the 1.4 and we will get the 1.5 !

It is coming here, you should be able to order in October for 191 or so i was told today

bazz26

Surely the Mk8 must be nearly due by then?

kooga

bazz26 wrote: »

Surely the Mk8 must be nearly due by then?

Was thinking that - Vw Ireland model selection for here is very erratic

Kagawa

I have a 162 GTD and I am due to come out of my PCP deal in August 2019 and I am expecting to take a fairly massive bath on it given the second hand car market. I have kept it in very good condition but there is 47k on the clock now, which is more than VW would want id say. Has anyone come out of their deal yet and what were they happy with the offer from VW and was there much about the mileage etc.

I can't really decide what to do when my deal expires, I do a 100km round trip everyday so a GTi/R is not any option for me but damn i'd love one. I am actually considering an electric eGolf (don't kick me out please). I think the government are going to come after diesel in a big way in the next few years. Just checked VW's site and there are only 4 second hand ones in the country, and they range from mid thirties up, which is more than i would like to spend really, have a mortgage now and can't spend as much on cars as I'd like.

In the end I think i'll probably go back the years and try and pick up an Audi A6 estate or A5 that can eat up the motorway miles but won't cost me a fortune to buy. Would Audi do a deal with me for a 152 A5/A6 for a 162 GTD, does anyone have any experience doing this sort of deal out of a PCP. I will have a final payment of E15k on the GTD next year. Another option is to see if I could sell my car privately and then go to the UK and see what I can get, i'm pretty sure i could get much better bang for my buck over there, I would be aiming to spend in the low twenties. I don't know would there by much interest in my car here though, dunno.

Sorry for all the questions, I have been thinking about this for a long while and I just don't know what the best thing to do is and I'd really appreciate some advice on this one.

vintagevrs

The best option with out doubt is to sell the gtd privately. Problem is that it may be tricky to find a buyer that is happy to buy one privately without warranty and finance options. If you can do that then you can do what you like. That could be buy a fresh car from UK, buy something cheap to keep you going or go finance again in something in Ireland.

You don't need to wait for the PCP to end before you sell either. You could sell it today if you like. Vw will give you a settlement figure over the phone. There is no penalty for doing this. You actually save money doing this as you effectively pay off the loan early and you pay less interest.

Kagawa

vintagevrs wrote: »

The best option with out doubt is to sell the gtd privately. Problem is that it may be tricky to find a buyer that is happy to buy one privately without warranty and finance options. If you can do that then you can do what you like. That could be buy a fresh car from UK, buy something cheap to keep you going or go finance again in something in Ireland.

You don't need to wait for the PCP to end before you sell either. You could sell it today if you like. Vw will give you a settlement figure over the phone. There is no penalty for doing this. You actually save money doing this as you effectively pay off the loan early and you pay less interest.

Thanks, I think you are correct about selling privately as it would be a lot of money for someone to spend with no guarantee etc. But I’d say there aren’t many GTD’s about so that could be in my favour.

I am actually thinking of going into an Audi dealership and see what they see what they can do for me. I think going through a dealer is certainly the easiest option for me. There are some nice A5/A6’s available for th mid twenties at the moment.

vintagevrs

Go to the Audi dealer and get a price. If it were me, I would then look at similar cars in the UK/ni and see how much you could bring one in for including vrt. That'll give you an idea of how much you can sell the golf for compared with the cost to change at the Audi dealer.

Why would you want to change to a slightly older Audi? Is the gtd not perfect for your millage?

Kagawa

vintagevrs wrote: »

Go to the Audi dealer and get a price. If it were me, I would then look at similar cars in the UK/ni and see how much you could bring one in for including vrt. That'll give you an idea of how much you can sell the golf for compared with the cost to change at the Audi dealer.

Why would you want to change to a slightly older Audi? Is the gtd not perfect for your millage?

It is but I think I’d just like a chance really and if I keep the GTD much longer then I’ll lose a lot on it. I may well end up keeping it and just finance the final payment. It really depends how the negotiations go with the dealers.

Toyotafanboi

Kagawa wrote: »

I have a 162 GTD and I am due to come out of my PCP deal in August 2019 and I am expecting to take a fairly massive bath on it given the second hand car market. I have kept it in very good condition but there is 47k on the clock now, which is more than VW would want id say. Has anyone come out of their deal yet and what were they happy with the offer from VW and was there much about the mileage etc.

I posted this in the PCP thread the other week. Ours isn't a performance Golf, just a Highline, with the tech pack and pan roof added.

Toyotafanboi wrote: »

Had a look at trading in the Golf the other week. 162 1.6 diesel, 85k kms so has shattered the PCP mileage allowance.

Roughly speaking went in with max deposit in 162, €9k ish and have been paying €250pm since then, so again roughly speaking we are 50% of the way to owning the car having paid €14250 off the car.

Trade in value allowed was €18750, so €4500 equity which is quite good at this point IMO. To get the exact same car again continuing with PCP using just the equity as deposit was around €460 per month but the price of a comparable Golf has gone up by the guts of €3k.

The salesman never even batted an eye at the mileage, it may have had an effect in the background on the price we were offered but he didn't break out his calculator and do the 0.02c per kilometre equation or anything. Having a 3 year old GTD with around 70k on it, I couldn't see being a huge deal.

Kagawa

Toyotafanboi wrote: »

I posted this in the PCP thread the other week. Ours isn't a performance Golf, just a Highline, with the tech pack and pan roof added.



The salesman never even batted an eye at the mileage, it may have had an effect in the background on the price we were offered but he didn't break out his calculator and do the 0.02c per kilometre equation or anything. Having a 3 year old GTD with around 70k on it, I couldn't see being a huge deal.

That’s very good info, thanks for that, did you go for another new car?

bazz26

Just remember that an Audi dealer will not resell your GTD on their forecourt, they will sell it to the trade (non Audi/independent dealers) which means they will give you it's trade value. You might get a bit more if the dealer happens to have the VW franchise in one of their other dealerships where they would resell it.

Also you will never win when it comes to trying to beat depreciation. Changing a car because it will lose more money the longer you keep it is a false economy, your just spending money to get yourself back into the same situation with a newer car. Now if you fancy a change of car then fair enough but you will never justify changing to stay ahead of depreciation.

vintagevrs

If you fancy a change then that's fair enough. But if part of the motivation is to "downgrade" for financial reasons then it's not the best idea, unless you are properly downgrading to a car of much less value. Changing to a car with similar price is just giving a dealer a chunk of cash to stay in a car of similar value.

Toyotafanboi

Kagawa wrote: »

That’s very good info, thanks for that, did you go for another new car?

No, looking at the numbers it seemed quite expensive to be getting exactly the same car again with the only difference being the reg (we were looking at a facelift but it's essentially the same).

If we got a 182, to keep our payments the same we would have to put around €5k deposit with out equity and then still owe 22k between monthly payments and balloon payment.

We are €14k away from owning our 162. Including the additional deposit the total cost of owning a 182 would come to €27k ish. A new car would be nice but it's not worth that much to us. It's easy to view it as "it's just 5k down and keep the same monthly for another 3 years" but it's hard to ignore the real cost behind it.

I know half the concept with PCP is that you maybe never plan on owning the car, so the full purchase price should be something some people might not really be thinking about, and owning the car isn't really a huge deal to us either, we are happy to have a Golf bill the same way we have a phone bill but they seem like big enough numbers to have hanging over you for a Golf the same as you already have.