The Mega Mk7 Golf GTI/GTD/R thread

ondafly wrote: »

Enjoying Sligo at the moment and took a spin out to Glencar waterfall.

Took a pic - kind of like it as it hides the dirt on such a gloomy day !

http://imgur.com/CUDxCWZ <-- felt the picture was too big to embed!

Also saw 1 GTi and was parked beside an R this morning at PcWorld. Anyone from here ?

I'll be down that direction tomorrow afternoon. Wasn't me today though. Was up at the top of the country getting the hair wet

opinionated3

Gorgeous cars folks. ....well jealous! !

After some serious elbow grease yesterday evening

Very nice! The plate looks nice and tidy too.

The performance packs are selling well! Few of them on here at least. Lovely motor, enjoy

JoeA3 wrote: »

Very nice! The plate looks nice and tidy too.

Thanks Joe. Nice and simple

vintagevrs wrote: »

The performance packs are selling well! Few of them on here at least. Lovely motor, enjoy

Thanks. On my route to work I usually see a couple of GTI's on the road. There seems to be quite a lot of 161 GTD's registered up around the Dublin/Wicklow area too.

GustavoFring

Kodirl/Joe, where did ye get those plates?

GustavoFring wrote: »

Kodirl/Joe, where did ye get those plates?

www.eireplates.com

dastardly00

I thoroughly enjoy reading this thread and I'm loving the photos that have been posted over the last few days. It's such a beautiful car, I hope I can own one some day! Fair play lads, well wear.

GustavoFring wrote: »

Kodirl/Joe, where did ye get those plates?

Got mine from Eireplates too. Great service and quick delivery.

GustavoFring

JoeA3 wrote: »

www.eireplates.com

Ah right, just without the county name gets the bigger font so? They look much better.

GustavoFring wrote: »

Ah right, just without the county name gets the bigger font so? They look much better.

I don't think the font is any different? It just looks less cluttered without the county name imo. He'll also space out the digits properly, etc.

everlast75

JoeA3 wrote: »

I don't think the font is any different? It just looks less cluttered without the county name imo. He'll also space out the digits properly, etc.

Is it legal though?

everlast75 wrote: »

Is it legal though?

By the absolute strictest letter of the law - possibly not, but the rules and regs around number plates are woolly at best. Sure look around any carpark... Every car has slightly different "legal" plates, depending on what dealers the car came from. Some dealers use plastic plates, some use the metal, they all use different fonts, some of them stick dealer advertising on the plates, some dealers make an arse of putting them on and stick a screw through one of the digits, etc, etc.

I've had the same type as KodIrl for 3 years without issue.

GustavoFring

JoeA3 wrote: »

I don't think the font is any different? It just looks less cluttered without the county name imo. He'll also space out the digits properly, etc.

Looks slightly larger to my eyes although it could be more centred compared to the county lettered plates. It's a lot clearer that's for sure. I need a new back plate as I went at a spot with tar remover and it damaged a few numbers very slightly and annoys me. Gotta love the quality of the plates from Trevor to be fair.

The county lettering is a waste of space IMO.

GustavoFring wrote: »

Looks slightly larger to my eyes although it could be more centred compared to the county lettered plates. It's a lot clearer that's for sure. I need a new back plate as I went at a spot with tar remover and it damaged a few numbers very slightly and annoys me. Gotta love the quality of the plates from Trevor to be fair.

The county lettering is a waste of space IMO.

I did exactly the same thing with tar remover recently. I didn't even rub the stuff onto the plate! It just lifted some of the black paint when I sprayed the stuff on... Didn't look great alright but I tackled it with a permanent black marker and it's fine now :pac:

For my plate, he made the hyphens small so as the plate wouldn't look cluttered and spaced out the digits. That might make the font look a bit larger...

Ron Burgundy II

I got a plastic style plate on my car and the printer was either running out of ink or the jets need a cleaning, as you can see faint white lines appearing across the plate. I would imagine if I had an NCT in the morning I would be pulled on the condition. Nice of the dealer to put them on a new car :rolleyes:.

Might look into the a pressed metal set. Kodirl the image you put up isn't displaying but did you put the EU flag on the plate?

Yeah, his is very similar to mine:

I have those plates too...... would recommend. My plates had the dealer info at the bottom. As well as stickers in the back window. First thing to go.

Ron Burgundy II

Cheers going to order a set today

dar83

After a quick wash the weekend before Easter...

everlast75

There's a 161 gti PP for sale, 2nd hand at around 42k. Finance would be at the usual rate.

How does the garage think they will sell that when you can get a brand new one at 0% APR for a few grand more?

everlast75 wrote: »

There's a 161 gti PP for sale, 2nd hand at around 42k. Finance would be at the usual rate.

How does the garage think they will sell that when you can get a brand new one at 0% APR for a few grand more?

Yeah, sometimes dealers mystify me.

After I traded my 132 GTI, it sat on their forecourt for about 4 months, priced only about 6k less than you'd get a new one for. Eventually the penny dropped and they knocked a couple of K off it and it sold...

It could well be there to help shift newer ones. My dealer had a 2nd hand GTi, same sort of story when I was looking. APR on it was 5.9% I believe, and 1.9% on new. He got the sale on a new car.