What have you done to your MK 7 today ?

[Watts]

Finally got around to fitting my new CF mirror caps. I've broken or had broken a few sets now so hopefully these ones will last Sub £100 off ebay and fit well albeit more fiddly to fit than oem.





Tomorrow the car goes in for a major service and MoT, hopefully it'll come back unscathed

[jdc0907]

My brand new (1500miles) GTI Performance (MY19)  is in the garage for a rattling heat shield which has been bugging me for the last few weeks. While it was in they have found a major oil leak - not good news, they think it’s coming from the gearbox. Anyone else had these issues so early on with their GTIs?

[runningman35]

I used to have mk5 GT TDI 170 years ago and at about 17000 miles it developed an oil leak and this put hot oil onto heat shield which cracked and rattled and then one day went to a customer meeting less than 5 miles from my office, and got there to find smoke billowing out of engine bay.

Get the oil leak fixed straightaway or you may find bigger problems develop. I ended up getting car fixed under warranty and then part ex it after losing confidence with it big time!

Good luck with getting problem sorted.  I have not had any probs in over 7000 miles so far with my gti performance other than stone chips on my Brescia wheels which seem more prone than most cars to this especially on rear wheels!

[jdc0907]

I used to have mk5 GT TDI 170 years ago and at about 17000 miles it developed an oil leak and this put hot oil onto heat shield which cracked and rattled and then one day went to a customer meeting less than 5 miles from my office, and got there to find smoke billowing out of engine bay.

Get the oil leak fixed straightaway or you may find bigger problems develop. I ended up getting car fixed under warranty and then part ex it after losing confidence with it big time!

Good luck with getting problem sorted.  I have not had any probs in over 7000 miles so far with my gti performance other than stone chips on my Brescia wheels which seem more prone than most cars to this especially on rear wheels!

They haven’t yet said whether the oil leak has caused the heat shield rattle but that would make sense. It’s getting all sorted under warranty and I should hopefully have it back today. Yes you’re right I have lost confidence with the car especially given what I paid for it! Any ideas where I would stand with VW in part-exing it or asking for a different car? I’ve had the car 7 weeks

[Jim_mk7.5]

Finally got around to fitting my new CF mirror caps. I've broken or had broken a few sets now so hopefully these ones will last Sub £100 off ebay and fit well albeit more fiddly to fit than oem.





Tomorrow the car goes in for a major service and MoT, hopefully it'll come back unscathed

Fantastic! Might be worth sharing a link as the ones I got from eBay were about £115 and definitely didn't fit!

[Watts]

Finally got around to fitting my new CF mirror caps. I've broken or had broken a few sets now so hopefully these ones will last Sub £100 off ebay and fit well albeit more fiddly to fit than oem.

Fantastic! Might be worth sharing a link as the ones I got from eBay were about £115 and definitely didn't fit!

Cheers Jim, it was these - https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/VW-Golf-MK7-Carbon-Fibre-Mirror-Covers-Full-Replacement-Style-GTI-GT-TDI-Golf-R/253072910941?fits=Model:Golf%7CPlat_Gen:MK+VII&hash=item3aec522a5d:g:JsYAAOSwYSRZjyz7&redirect=mobile

[Watts]

Dropped mine off this morning for an MoT and a major service. Driving it with the pedalbox switched off was the usual disappointment, having anticipated this I left it on until very near the garage. They've loaned me a Golf 1.5 petrol Bluemotion in undercoat grey. A vast improvement on the last loan car I had which was an up!, it's achillies was the gearbox, the worst auto I've ever come across, a disgrace. The loan Golf goes okay, a bit slow to get going (as expected) but once rolling it's not too bad, not keen on the new dash, the flat display area just looks cheap like a budget stereo and the interior is a bit boring. If I was in the market for a basic car I don't think I could spend the amount of money these things cost on this, probably better off spending much less on a properly cheap car. Or something a bit older.

[Exonian]

The mirrors look really good Watts 
A slightly less traumatic experience than before! Let’s hope your dealer visit is trauma free this time too!

Having had a boredom induced nose around the dealership whilst waiting for my own car to be serviced a few weeks ago I have to agree that a lot of the non performance facelifted Golfs do look dreary as hell and have to agree, I’d spend my money elsewhere if I didn’t want a GTI/D or R.
The pre-FL (non GTI/D etc) cars weren’t too bad inside with proper dials and more sculpturing around the head-unit but the later models are expensive and bland.
My money would be going towards a Polo/Ibiza/A1 or maybe something different altogether if I needed new or nearly new, but quite likely I think something older and better value would be a more enticing purchase.

[Watts]

Cheers Exonian The last couple of visits to the dealer have been very boring, nothing much of interest in the showroom. They had a Polo today that looked more fun, I think it was in white silver but actually didn't look too bad, seemed to be a special edition with a few decals and a good splash of colour to the interior. All the Golfs looked boring.

[king monkey]

Love the mirror caps Watts. They look brill.