The Mega Mk7 Golf GTI/GTD/R thread

dar83 wrote: »

You were offered a better deal and an awesome colour and you said no?! :O

Thing is though I could have saved nearly €800 over the 3 years if that colour was available ( it wasn’t) but in 2021 that colour could be very dated and hard to shift .. This is my 5th Golf since 2010 having had pearlescent black ( X ) United grey ( X ) night blue ( X ) tungsten silver ( my favorite) and now white ..

I think with the right body styling and the right small changes you could make yourself, the turmeric can look stunning. It's far better than the sea of bland we get otherwise for the Golf on these shores.

However if you're never going to touch your car and leave it completely stock, as well as looking to shift it in the three year timeline, then I can see the temptation to stick safe with your colour.

On the mention of seeing far more GTI/GTD/R's about the place, this is one of the reasons I couldn't leave my own car as stock. I hate having "another Golf" (or any car for that matter) and it's becoming a bit more likely these days with the amount of them.

Picking up my new GTI tomorrow - buzzing!

Just wondering as I've never had a brand new car before - what sort of precautions should be taken to "break it in"? I've read that you should really take it easy on the throttle for the first 500 miles or so (will be tough to restrain myself on this front!) and check oil regularly initially - anything else to consider? or anything that GTIs particularly need or works well?

Thanks a million in advance!

FUTY2211 wrote: »

Picking up my new GTI tomorrow - buzzing!

Just wondering as I've never had a brand new car before - what sort of precautions should be taken to "break it in"? I've read that you should really take it easy on the throttle for the first 500 miles or so (will be tough to restrain myself on this front!) and check oil regularly initially - anything else to consider? or anything that GTIs particularly need or works well?

Thanks a million in advance!

This is what I did for about 1000km.

When oil is fully up to temp I would give it full throttle up to roughly 5k rpm, then engine break as much from then.
No laboring in high gears at low rpm's.
No constant rpm's, change down a gear to vary rpm.

After that it's open season, whether I did any good I don't know but the car doesn't use any oil and it runs perfectly.

JoeA3 wrote: »

+1.
Don’t overthink it. Use some degree of mechanical sympathy for the first 10 minutes after a cold start and then drive it on and enjoy it.

Sure your one drank oil, every stop you were topping up

Have my car booked in for a service and got a text from the dealer saying that because I'm a loyal customer they're giving me VW Connect for free, also saw this on the VW website recently as complimentary with classic services, problem is I already have it on my car, I'm one if those who paid a good bit to get it when selecting my car to my annoyance. Is there anything else I could ask them to throw in instead? Pretty sure its unlikely but worth a shot.

Oh jesus that sounds pointless, presumed it was App Connect, my bad!

They're giving it to everyone. My father (he has a new Tiguan) got a text about it last week - as a "valued" customer, we are offering this to you blah blah.

It's the sort of thing that's actually built into a lot of new cars now though (without the need to plug a dongle into the obd port), so I wouldn't go into tin-foil hat mode about it or anything. If you like having "useful" stats on your phone like current MPG, then go for it, otherwise it's hardly worth the bother. The BMW's have something similar built in. The BMW have their own internal SIM though, so in that way its a lot more capable - i.e. not relying on using your phone's hotspot to do anything useful.

TheBazman wrote: »

I was in getting my 6th service on the R and there were loads of them sitting around on the desks in F Keanes- they didnt offer me one - I musn't be a valued customer

Are you up to 90k in an R? Service interval is 15k isn't it?

Fair play:D

i've my ST since Jan 2016 and have 68k on it now.:eek:

I seem to always be learning something new about the Golf, obviously flicking the wiper down once will make it wipe once but if you hold it down then it wipes really quickly until you let go.

Don't know what scenario you'd need it but cool that it's there. Found out randomly while putting the wipers into service mode.

On that note though the lower part of the driver side wiper 'wobbles' as it passes, it seems like they aren't being pressed onto the windscreen enough, if that makes sense. Cleaned the blades earlier as they seemed to smudge a bit so not sure if they're just dirty or I need new ones...

OSI wrote: »

Popped into Audi to price out an S3 Sportback. Specced one with similar kit that an R would come with and it hit 62k. And it was still missing some options like reversing camera, folding mirrors etc. The bigger thing that got me though, the trade in they offered on the GTI. Bearing in mind it's exactly 2 years old this week, and has 30k on the clock I was somewhat taken aback by an offer of 23.5k!

I look forward to being insulted in a year or so...

OSI wrote: »

Popped into Audi to price out an S3 Sportback. Specced one with similar kit that an R would come with and it hit 62k. And it was still missing some options like reversing camera, folding mirrors etc. The bigger thing that got me though, the trade in they offered on the GTI. Bearing in mind it's exactly 2 years old this week, and has 30k on the clock I was somewhat taken aback by an offer of 23.5k!

So only 40k to change then lol.

Audi standard spec is a bit of a joke. By the time you add those missing bits and I'm sure there's other bits missing (e.g. I'm nearly sure the S3 comes on 18's, not 19's and I don't think adaptive cruise is standard), then you're up into 65-6k at least.

Audi and BMW don't want other marques on a trade in. They can't retail them on their forecourt. So unless the Audi dealer has a sister VW dealers (e.g. Connollys in the West have Audi Galway and a VW dealers in Sligo), then they have to offload your car to the trade... so you get bottom dollar.

I guess a VW dealer would retail a 161 GTI for 28-29k.

bazz26 wrote: »

The reality is that if your trading then your going to be valued close to what you can import one from the UK for. It's not just VW either, the entire second hand market is gone to **** here due to weak sterling and cheaper imports.

That's it in a nutshell really.
Recently traded a 2016 car and all dealers were within 1k of each other on values. you are only going to get a more favourable value by them applying bigger discount to what they are selling and if they do that then it's for something that they want to shift and may not be easily sellable by you again.

What are you looking for in a car Osi?

OSI wrote: »

Something that gives me what the GTI gives without being the same again.

A quick but comfortable car with a bit of kit that will take a small family.

Modify. :P

OSI wrote: »

Something that gives me what the GTI gives without being the same again.

A quick but comfortable car with a bit of kit that will take a small family.

Leon Cupra is very comfy and has plenty of toys as standard. The ST version has even more space if you need that kind of thing.