The Mega Mk7 Golf GTI/GTD/R thread

That’s the nicest colour and wheel combination on the golf R in my opinion.
Looking forward to review.
Would it be a contender for your next car?

carsfan2 wrote: »

That’s the nicest colour and wheel combination on the golf R in my opinion.
Looking forward to review.
Would it be a contender for your next car?

Boot too small, cost too high but in another period of my life, yes! A G30 530d is hard to look past especially with the price of them from the U.K.

P.S. I know that the guy who had it did a few silly mods like cutting the exhaust (res delete), so that might also explain why you're finding it noisy

MarkN wrote: »

There’s only 2,000kms on it? Ya sure it’s the one?!

Absolutely certain.

Wow, he didn’t use it all that much!

MarkN wrote: »

You coming for a spin so?! Love the seats, what was it priced at when you ordered?

RRP, about 55.5k! I suppose Keane’s are looking for around 47k now?

I’d love to drive it, would probably only piss me off!!

Wonder why he offloaded it so soon? Attention from the wrong type of person?

Sorry my bad there’s nearly 12,000kms on it.

dar83 wrote: »

It nearly looks like LSG in the pictures, but that was never available in the facelift, was it?!?

No, they dropped LSG for the facelift. It's Indium grey now.

MarkN wrote: »

I see you specced adaptive headlights too Joe. Sorry

Hmmm, no, I don’t think I did! If you mean the auto dipping main beam, that was standard or was part of the tech pack or whatever it’s called.

MarkN wrote: »

Can definitely see the headlight beam move as the steering wheel turns, maybe that’s standard in the Golf xenons/LEDs...

Yeah that’s standard. The turning is actually more pronounced / aggressive in sport / race mode.
There is an expensive adaptive headlights option that uses tricks to trim the main beam around oncoming traffic but I definitely didn’t spec that.

From memory I spec’d:
Leather
Pretoria wheels
Adaptive chassis
Keyless
Dynaudio
Tech pack
Darker rear tint

carsfan2 wrote: »

You still happy you cancelled it Joe?
4 series ticking all the boxes?

Ah I’m not sure. I’d say no regrets... but then I see Mark’s photos and videos and I start feeling that itch again!

I don’t think I’d have an R again, it was too much and too much of an indulgence for my day to day needs, but I definitely have a hankering for something like a GTI again for sure.

The 4 is great, I really cannot fault it. I had it serviced yesterday and it cost me nothing (service pack). It’s a cheap car to run (depreciation aside!), it’s comfortable, looks good and does the family stuff very well. But it’s not very exciting. I find that I’m not as bothered about it as I was with the Golf. If i was having the Golf serviced, I’d have been fretting, worrying that some monkey would scuff one of the alloys. But I didn’t give the bmw a 2nd thought yesterday. Sure enough, they did a fine job, they even washed it without making a mess of it. But I wasn’t as bothered as I might have been before...

I’m looking at building a house at the moment though so tbh it might be bangernomics for a few years!

JoeA3 wrote: »

Ah I’m not sure. I’d say no regrets... but then I see Mark’s photos and videos and I start feeling that itch again!

I don’t think I’d have an R again, it was too much and too much of an indulgence for my day to day needs, but I definitely have a hankering for something like a GTI again for sure.

The 4 is great, I really cannot fault it. I had it serviced yesterday and it cost me nothing (service pack). It’s a cheap car to run (depreciation aside!), it’s comfortable, looks good and does the family stuff very well. But it’s not very exciting. I find that I’m not as bothered about it as I was with the Golf. If i was having the Golf serviced, I’d have been fretting, worrying that some monkey would scuff one of the alloys. But I didn’t give the bmw a 2nd thought yesterday. Sure enough, they did a fine job, they even washed it without making a mess of it. But I wasn’t as bothered as I might have been before...

I’m looking at building a house at the moment though so tbh it might be bangernomics for a few years!

I've a fine 07 Avensis d4d for ya here come next march, the radio only picks up 4fm, be a fine yoke for ya

SaintsYB wrote: »

How many km's did that get you?

€45 got me less than 300kms, I then stuck another small bit in to get me to today as it’s going back then.

Hence why i am driving a GTD and not an R or GTi.

Getting 800+kms to a tank, roughly €65 to fill. But yeah, it sounds like a tractor and there's no getting away from that

^^^ Yep that was my experience also. Probably just under the 500km mark for me most of the time as I typically don't do a lot of motorway driving - or stick to 100km/h