43 responseses ,ngl thought there'd be more after a week than this
If it’s only mk8 GTI owners on this forum who have been asked to respond, then the overall population size that the poll is aimed at will be quite small which might help explain the low response rate. Additionally;
- some forum members might not visit the forum very frequently / every week.
- compared to previous generations of Golf GTI, there’s likely be fewer owners of the current generation car, due to the issues with supply chain shortages and excessively long lead times, resulting in fewer cars having been built.
- if some mk8 owners are first time Golf GTI owners, they might not be bothered at the absence of an engine cover that previous generation cars have had and the mk8 should have; maybe a bit of a ‘what you’ve never had, you never miss’ attitude?
- surprisingly, there may be some owners who don’t lift the bonnet many times - if at all
, so a missing engine cover might not bother them. I’ve read on some VAG forums of owners not lifting the bonnet on their car once after having owned it for getting on for a year!
To increase the poll overall response rate to a level that’ll be more likely to make VW sit up and take notice, maybe consideration needs to be given to also polling mk8 owners on social media - I’m assuming there’ll be a Golf GTI owner group on the likes of Facebook?
I don’t have a mk8 GTI so this doesn’t affect me. However, if my car’s engine cover had been confiscated, or the car was delivered without an engine cover when it should have one, I’d want a cover.
