The Mega Mk7 Golf GTI/GTD/R thread

ondafly · 26-03-2016 08:51PM

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 !

CUDxCWZ.jpg?2

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

everlast75 · 26-03-2016 09:37PM

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 ?

Pearl white? Love it

ondafly · 26-03-2016 10:00PM

sure is - Oryx Weiß

vintagevrs · 26-03-2016 10:00PM

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 · 26-03-2016 11:31PM

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

kodirl · 27-03-2016 10:43AM

After some serious elbow grease yesterday evening

JoeA3 · 27-03-2016 10:45AM

Very nice! The plate looks nice and tidy too.

vintagevrs · 27-03-2016 11:00AM

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

kodirl · 28-03-2016 09:01PM

JoeA3 wrote: »

Very nice! The plate looks nice and tidy too.

Thanks Joe. Nice and simple

kodirl · 28-03-2016 09:04PM

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 · 28-03-2016 09:19PM

Kodirl/Joe, where did ye get those plates?

JoeA3 · 28-03-2016 09:19PM

GustavoFring wrote: »

Kodirl/Joe, where did ye get those plates?

www.eireplates.com

dastardly00 · 28-03-2016 09:27PM

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.

kodirl · 28-03-2016 09:44PM

GustavoFring wrote: »

Kodirl/Joe, where did ye get those plates?

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

GustavoFring · 28-03-2016 10:25PM

JoeA3 wrote: »

www.eireplates.com

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

JoeA3 · 28-03-2016 10:27PM

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 · 28-03-2016 10:37PM

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?

JoeA3 · 28-03-2016 10:42PM

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 · 28-03-2016 10:56PM

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.

JoeA3 · 28-03-2016 10:58PM

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 · 29-03-2016 10:11AM

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?

JoeA3 · 29-03-2016 10:48AM

Yeah, his is very similar to mine:

vintagevrs · 29-03-2016 10:50AM

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 · 29-03-2016 10:54AM

Cheers going to order a set today

dar83 · 29-03-2016 11:14AM

After a quick wash the weekend before Easter...

everlast75 · 29-03-2016 04:29PM

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?

JoeA3 · 29-03-2016 04:32PM

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...

vintagevrs · 29-03-2016 04:53PM

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.

JoeA3 · 29-03-2016 05:05PM

vintagevrs wrote: »

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.

That could well be the case. My car was absolutely mint and they had it sitting inside the showroom on their main display area and they used pictures of it in various social media promos, etc. They might have concluded this was a more cost effective way of flogging a few new GTI's than ordering a new "stock" model that might be more risky and take much longer to shift.

carsfan · 29-03-2016 06:17PM

If you were an impatient cash buyer, you might just take a stock car if it suited.
There was a comment on another thread where the dealer had a couple of stock bmw M3 models at over 100k and said some people aren't that fussy over colour or spec but want the car now. He reckoned no problem to shift them. I would be a lot more fussy as I suspect would most of the posters on this thread but I reckon we are in a minority.

The Mega Mk7 Golf GTI/GTD/R thread

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