The Mega Mk7 Golf GTI/GTD/R thread

ShadowHearth wrote: »

To be honest, the more I read around boards, the less i want to change my car next year.
I have already mentioned that second hand cupras of 161- 171ish are way over inflated. And by the looks of it, dealers can't keep the stock up. People just buy them at that price. The whole jump in price of new car last year really does not help ( if you are in market for such stuff ) and new increase this year will make it even worse.
Ironically dealers will tell you any bull**** to make your car look unwanted and very low value, but magically cars in their yard keep their value very well and a lot better cars.
If you in the market for Cupra, golf GTI or R, you pretty much forced to pay sticker price. If you won't, there is another lad right behind you.

The way it goes, I hope i30N still stays unpopular and "not cool" as vag stuff, so I can pick one up for under 30k next year.

When I bought a GTI a couple of months back, I rang after I got the email alert and went down to see it the next day. Apparently I just pipped someone else who arrived in the next morning and was ready to buy on the spot.

The salesman said this in passing after I'd actually signed the docs and paid for the car, so didn't have much of incentive to lie. But naturally I'd take anything a salesman says with a generous pinch of salt.

So it seems like anecdotally GTI demand is pretty decent. I'm not sure about R's though, there seem to be a good few available. A few that have been advertised for a little while.

theintern wrote: »

Any experience with this? I'm almost afraid to ask my insurance company for fear it'll trigger some red flag in their systems.

I have repeat experience in attempting to insure modified cars, rarely too successfully. I do know that 123.ie are generally open to insuring modifications for existing policies/customers as long as you get an engineers report etc... but try and insure one as a new customers and you'll get a straight refusal from them. Other insurers are similar and your best bet is to have an existing relationship with them (the more years the better) and to offer up engineers reports and whatever else you may need to confirm it wasn't a driveway job. If you're adding more power, they'll want bigger brakes etc...

Ringing your insurer to inquire about a future idea isn't a bad thing, getting the right type of person on the other end of the phone is the difficult part. A lot of the phone staff in most insurers call centres are following a guide and a rather narrow outlook type of guide as well, so if you ask them something out of the ordinary it can sometimes go badly, in a computer says no without any discussion or further investigation.

dar83 wrote: »

I have repeat experience in attempting to insure modified cars, rarely too successfully. I do know that 123.ie are generally open to insuring modifications for existing policies/customers as long as you get an engineers report etc... but try and insure one as a new customers and you'll get a straight refusal from them. Other insurers are similar and your best bet is to have an existing relationship with them (the more years the better) and to offer up engineers reports and whatever else you may need to confirm it wasn't a driveway job. If you're adding more power, they'll want bigger brakes etc...

Ringing your insurer to inquire about a future idea isn't a bad thing, getting the right type of person on the other end of the phone is the difficult part. A lot of the phone staff in most insurers call centres are following a guide and a rather narrow outlook type of guide as well, so if you ask them something out of the ordinary it can sometimes go badly, in a computer says no without any discussion or further investigation.

I've moved to Germany and have modified my car (non issue in Germany). I keep paying for my 123.ie policy for this exact reason. If I come home with the car, once you have an engineers report they will cover it if you are an existing policy holder. Just make sure every mod is covered under the report.

Slippin Jimmy wrote: »

Got a call on Friday to say my car was in transportation and should be here by the end of the month. How long does it take to arrive in the dealers?

My car finished the build process on a Friday, arrived in Dublin Port the following Tuesday, arrived at the dealers in Waterford on Friday, and I collected it on the following Tuesday!

Hope that helps - but I think it can differ depending on how busy it is at the port, and where your dealer is located etc. I think I was lucky enough in terms of the time from build week to actually collecting the car.

veetwin wrote: »

Do you mind me asking when you ordered it? Mrs Vt ordered a 1.5tsi Golf in April and was promised an early July delivery. Phone call from the dealer this week said car wasn't built and he didn't know when it would.

Also she has to sign a letter to say she understands that the tax and vrt may be higher because of new regulations. They will absorb the vrt through and honour the existing deal done.

If the dealer is going to absorb the VRT why on earth would she sign a letter acknowledging anything!

veetwin wrote: »

We have not seen the letter yet as away on hols. I think what they are trying to avoid is customers refusing to take cars they have ordered on the basis that the tax is slightly higher than what they thought. He gave the impression that VW would not build the car unless that had this letter.

At this stage it's nearly worth waiting for the new model tbh. I know it'll cost more but resale will probably cancel it out.

veetwin wrote: »

We are in a PCP and were happy with the cost to change to a new car and the 0% finance but we will see what pans out

Just be careful going into another PCP deal on a model that will be replaced soon as your equity will drop when you go to trade it in 2 or 3 years time due to it being the old model.

veetwin wrote: »

We have not seen the letter yet as away on hols. I think what they are trying to avoid is customers refusing to take cars they have ordered on the basis that the tax is slightly higher than what they thought. He gave the impression that VW would not build the car unless that had this letter.

That’s fine for VW but VRT based on WLTP is not coming in until 1 January 2020. Are you expecting that much of a delay? Did the already give you a NEDC2 CO2 level for your spec?

Are German style plates still a thing? Picking up the R at the weekend and I’m not a fan of the plates on it so looking at options. I haven’t noticed too many with German plates about.

sky18 wrote: »

I just noticed on the VW website another price increase on the 1st of July its 30 grand for a 1.0 highline.

There was a price bump at the end of last year and again the year before. It seems there's an annual VW price bump, and the WLTP pricing isn't even in effect, which will probably bring most cars up 2-3 VRT bands. As if cars weren't expensive enough as it is.

Yeah I think it was probably less than that after discount if you got a manual 3 door with flat paint.

The R started at around 43k for a manual 3 door back in 2015.

When they launched it originally (early 2014) it was well north of 50k and with a lot less standard kit too. I believe they sold only 2 or 3 of them in total that year, but then in late '14 they did a major revamp of prices and specs across the board and PCP really came into vogue.

Northern Monkey wrote: »

Are German style plates still a thing? Picking up the R at the weekend and I’m not a fan of the plates on it so looking at options. I haven’t noticed too many with German plates about.

Any details on the R ?

I would agree with the others on pressed metal plates also, held on with some 3M double sided tape. Nice clean look.

MidMan25 wrote: »

Wasn't the Mk V Golf R32 60-65k new?

That's more expensive than an S3 at the time, not sure they were in that price range, i might be wrong though.