The Mega Mk7 Golf GTI/GTD/R thread

DaveyDave

This is new. Can't see any scratches/point of impact on the white part and I couldn't feel any scratches or damage on the downward pointing lip at the back. I don't drive up any curbs or anything and never hear scraping from speed bumps. Any way to get that plastic trim back into place so it doesn't catch on anything?

It's fine in the VW service video so whatever it was happened in the last two weeks. Don't seem to be having the best luck at the moment.

JoeA3

aw man, that sucks. It does look like typical damage from driving nose first into a parking spot with a high kerb though. Or maybe a multi-storey carpark with high kerbs etc... You're very unfortunate that it cracked the painted part also

The under sill should all clip back into place, but it looks to be cracked also... you might be as well to bring it to a local body shop, they might be able to pop it all back together so the crack is barely visible...

DaveyDave

The white part is sticking out a good but and seems to need a bit of force to be pushed back so don't want to mess with it. If it can get clipped back hopefully it will hide the crack. The black part seems to be screwed in near the wheel so maybe undoing that will help line them up.

Can't figure out where/when it might have happened. Haven't really been anywhere in the last 2 weeks

noelf

Do shop around for a quote .. getting a small ding on my daughters Golf fixed this week for €180 .. a €100 less than another repairer ..

JoeA3

DaveyDave wrote: »

The white part is sticking out a good but and seems to need a bit of force to be pushed back so don't want to mess with it. If it can get clipped back hopefully it will hide the crack. The black part seems to be screwed in near the wheel so maybe undoing that will help line them up.

Can't figure out where/when it might have happened. Haven't really been anywhere in the last 2 weeks

Are you sure it didn’t happen while in the dealers careful hands then.... it being so low down on the bumper it could go unnoticed for a while. Trouble is, you can’t prove it.

DaveyDave

The crack on the underside is in a downward manner and it can't be pushed back up at all, even when pulling the corner of the bumper a little bit. Whatever caused it needed some force.

Adding to that the driver side of the bumper seems fairly loose. Tugging lightly under the fog light and there's a lot of play whereas the passenger side is firm.

Regarding the headlight washers, the passenger one does actually pop out but nothing comes out of it. The driver side doesn't pop out at all. There's also a nice squared scratch in the paint on top of the bumper below the grill as if someone was prying it with a flathead screwdriver. It's definitely not a rock chip.

Something is definitely wrong here...

68 lost souls

That’s awful. I wonder if someone was trying to nick it? I’ve heard of small glass windows and mirrors etc being robbed for parts

bazz26

VWs and Golfs in particular are very attractive to our cultural friends and scrotes in general. They may have attempted to try and take parts for their own ****boxes or to sell on. Happened to me before with a Passat CC. They certainly aren't careful when they try to take these parts.

JoeA3

Hmmm. Attempted theft / vandalism is possible too alright. There’s definitely no scuffs / scrapes on the underside? Surely if it was kerb damage there’d be very visible scuffing too. As I know too well, VW’s seem to get particularly targeted in that manner but usually they know how to remove the parts without damaging them or leaving it behind!

Another possibility, maybe it was reversed into in a carpark? And the bumper flexed enough to crack down there on impact?

fullstop

DaveyDave wrote: »

The white part is sticking out a good but and seems to need a bit of force to be pushed back so don't want to mess with it. If it can get clipped back hopefully it will hide the crack. The black part seems to be screwed in near the wheel so maybe undoing that will help line them up.

Can't figure out where/when it might have happened. Haven't really been anywhere in the last 2 weeks

Jaysus sell it before anything else happens :pac:

On your earlier point about the dealer though, I'd 100% let them know of my dissatisfaction. I used to leave my Passat (before I changed it) into a certain main dealer in South Dublin and they were a disgrace, half assed jobs on several occasions and nearly ended up costing me €1k extra on a repair, only I kicked up an absolute stink and VW paid for it. The dealer then gave me €100 voucher as a 'goodwill gesture'. I used the voucher and never went back and have warned anyone else I know away from them too.
Have been using Sheehy in Naas the past year and they seem a lot more trustworthy.

DaveyDave

I think if someone hit it in a car park there'd be scuffs on the bumper somewhere.

It's just too clean for that big of a crack. Definitely a head scratcher...

mr c

a body shop should be able to plastic weld the bumper its self rather than replacing the bumper

vintagevrs

Seems a coincidence with the poor service lately too that you now see that. No obvious marks on it. Would that trim piece need removed I wonder for the work you had done? When they were putting it back could they have cocked it up and damaged it? Seems most plausible for me.

DaveyDave

Spoke to the service manager on the phone and he said the bumper wasn't removed at all for the turbo.

Something isn't adding up. There's no clear damage on the underside or outside of the bumper to indicate it was hit by another car or scratched by a curb or anything else.

Vandalism/attempted theft would surely show some sort of damage and whatever they would have stolen was obviously too difficult as nothing was taken. I usually sleep with the window open and that sort of trouble isn't common around my area. Work is a gated car park that can be seen from the office and the warehouse office has CCTV monitored, the shift lead would have seen someone messing around.

I'll have to look again before I go in. If I was to hit something or scrape off something bad I probably would have got out and had a look after it happened. Can't think of anything in terms of driving that made me think any damage was caused.

They've also sold their automatic courtesy car and don't have another one yet. I'll get a courtesy car one of these days...

tossy

To me the only way you could damage it like that is to flex it or bend it, you could only get enough flex or bend on it to crack it that much if it was either off the car or half off. If it was me with such a new car and a growing list of incidents and reaction from the garage i'd be going the legal route.

Sure the bumper might not have to come off for the turbo but who is to say they didn't take it off, or they didn't try to remove the grille with a flat head screw drvier.

DaveyDave

Had it in the dealer for diagnostic on the headli washer. Apparently a part has failed so they've ordered that. They had a look at the bumper up there and it looks like there is scratches on one part of it, that can't be seen from looking at the ground. Again, this would have happened when reversing. I'm sure we've all had that clenching moment of scraping, it's hard to miss. But to crack the plastic that much? You'd definitely be getting out and having a look wherever you pulled up.

As Joe said, can't really prove it. There's scratches which indicate curb strike but I'm at loss. I haven't reversed over anything. Definitely not in the last two weeks. I've been to work, Tesco twice and dropped the GF home.

Think I'll be taking the loss on this one. The fact that this has happened in the last two weeks means I'm at even more of a loss because I haven't been anywhere...

He also was adamant that it's unlikely someone ate in my car because they clean the car at the last step. Which I believe, because the car was clearly hoovered when I pick it up which made the pastry crumbs all the more noticeable. He offered to wash it again but that's not the point, it's about respecting people property and eating in it.

Muppet Man

Dave - you seem focused on "the last two weeks". Is there a chance that it was scraped before then? You may only have noticed it now because you are subconsciously looking for things that are wrong. A sort of confirmation bias.

Is there a chance that someone else was driving the car in the past (>2 wks ago) and didn't want to mention the fact that they may have kissed a kerb somewhere. I'm sure your GF is great driver :rolleyes:

Muppet Man.

mr c

pulling the lower black trim off without unscrewed correctly , hard to be exact but if it was a car park or kirb you would see scratching , more like it cracked due to force in a different area ?

DaveyDave

Muppet Man wrote: »

Dave - you seem focused on "the last two weeks". Is there a chance that it was scraped before then? You may only have noticed it now because you are subconsciously looking for things that are wrong. A sort of confirmation bias.

Is there a chance that someone else was driving the car in the past (>2 wks ago) and didn't want to mention the fact that they may have kissed a kerb somewhere. I'm sure your GF is great driver :rolleyes:

Muppet Man.

They sent me a video of the health check when in for a service 2 weeks ago, checking the tyre depths and stuff on the lift. No sign of damage at all at that point. That's what's making me scratch my head about when it happened. I'm also the only driver of the car. If it happened ages ago and I didn't know I wouldn't be questioning it, but the majority of my driving in the last 2 weeks has also been with a passenger and neither of them can recall hitting anything or any nasty sounds. I've also had music off the majority of the driving recently.

I just couldn't imagine causing that sort of damage without knowing about it. I've Scraped going over a speed bump before but that was between the axles. Even more mind boggling is the fact it's likely caused by reversing, which would mean low speed coming out of a space. You'd stop the car quick enough if you heard something scraping.

Absolutely mind boggling. At least it's low down so I can get away with it.

JoeA3

OSI wrote: »

Like reversing on to a car lift and catching an edge maybe?

Yeah that definitely sounds possible. It would explain why it looks more tugged out that pushed in and the lack of scuffing.

Toyotafanboi

You do see that crack reasonably often on Mk7's, my best guess is when you go over a speed bump slightly too hard and the bumper kisses the road for a second.

DaveyDave

Has anyone seen a Polo GTI? Haven't seen one, seeing plenty of eGolfs and GTE lately though. I wonder is the price too strong for them?

Looks like a very nice car, it's just a shame it's €14k more than the mid-spec Polo and you still have to throw on a good few extras like the arm rest, climate control and LEDs. Real shame there's no electric handbrake on it.

EDIT: Just looked at the motor stats for this year, there's 3 of them in the country...

Toyotafanboi

Had a spin in one a few months ago. Very nice car, didn't think the manual handbrake was unpleasant in it but maybe for the price it buyers would want an automatic handbrake, iirc it still had hill hold with the manual handbrake.

It was a nice car to go, felt very like a Mk5 Golf in lots of respects, which I wouldn't consider a bad thing as such.

ianobrien

Toyotafanboi wrote: »

but maybe for the price it buyers would want an automatic handbrake, iirc it still had hill hold with the manual handbrake.
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For me, a manual handbrake in a GTi is a plus point, not a negative. GTi's are supposed to be fun cars and having an electronic handbrake just tells so much about the fun you can have in the car (zero).

bazz26

I wouldn't see a manual handbrake being a plus or a must have in a hot hatch myself these days unless your a 18 year old doing handbrake turns is your thing. Plenty of other ways to have fun in a hot hatch.

MarkN

ianobrien wrote: »

For me, a manual handbrake in a GTi is a plus point, not a negative. GTi's are supposed to be fun cars and having an electronic handbrake just tells so much about the fun you can have in the car (zero).

So the handbrake determines whether a car is fun to drive or not? Strange statement to make.

Zubeneschamali

Toyotafanboi wrote: »

maybe for the price it buyers would want an automatic handbrake

Not me, I'd pay extra to keep the manual handbrake.

Neilw

Zubeneschamali wrote: »

Not me, I'd pay extra to keep the manual handbrake.

Dsg with electronic handbrake and autohold is a brilliant feature.

Agent_47

Neilw wrote: »

Dsg with electronic handbrake and autohold is a brilliant feature.

try pushing a car in the snow with the driver door open and that electronic handbrake working against you. Manual handbrake anyday.

DaveyDave

I'd say the 40L tank on the Polo is a pain in the arse. I'm fed up of filling up every 3 weeks and I'll squeeze 725km out of my Highline. With similar economy you'd get about 580km on 40L. GTI maybe 450km?

I know the Polo is a class below the Golf, but that shows with the hard plastics (which isn't an issue), no adjustable cupholder, no felt lined door pockets, no roof grab handles etc. Still could have put the handbrake in!

I don't know how people manage only putting in €20 or €50!

Agent_47 wrote: »

Neilw wrote: »

Dsg with electronic handbrake and autohold is a brilliant feature.

try pushing a car in the snow with the driver door open and that electronic handbrake working against you. Manual handbrake anyday.

Ah sure that's what breakdown assistance is for