What have you done to your MK 7 today ?

[titchy]

Today a pigeon decided to fly into the side of me at 70mph. I've had the car 2 months and it's the second bird I've hit, the first being a pheasant.

This car is a bird magnet in the wrong sense 

It's bust my wing mirror. Well, the plastic indicator part of it to be exact.

The wing mirror works fine. It automatically folds in and the indicator still works. I'm wondering if I could get away with replacing the plastic part as I suspect a new wing mirror will cost a small fortune?

[JoeGTI]

I'm sure you can. I sustained similar damage to my MK6 door mirror which is a similar enough design. I bought the replacement part (basically the bottom part of the mirror - black unpainted part and indicator lens) and fitted it myself. Less than £100 anyway.

[BigD]

^^^^ and spacers 



How much are the CS caps?

Around 50 quid if I recall correctly

[Exonian]

^^^^ and spacers 



How much are the CS caps?

Around 50 quid if I recall correctly

Ouch!
Well, maybe not too bad really if they don't corrode as badly as the older VW centre caps used to.

Today a pigeon decided to fly into the side of me at 70mph. I've had the car 2 months and it's the second bird I've hit, the first being a pheasant.

This car is a bird magnet in the wrong sense 

It's bust my wing mirror. Well, the plastic indicator part of it to be exact.

The wing mirror works fine. It automatically folds in and the indicator still works. I'm wondering if I could get away with replacing the plastic part as I suspect a new wing mirror will cost a small fortune?

Is that just the indicator lens broken or other plastic bits?
I can't quite tell from the pic viewing on the phone screen.

Without going back to parking arguments I had a Q7 (or something like that) driver decide to hit my non folding mk6 mirror in a car park and I replaced the plastic lens and mirror lens myself and polished out the paintwork damage to the upper part of the mirror.
It wasn't that expensive but very annoying and needless.

It seems to be pigeon mating season at the moment as a couple of times I've had to slow to almost a stop in country roads because there have been a few pigeons "getting it on" in the road.
Obviously their minds are on other things than potentially lethal cars hitting them right now.

[Talk-torque]

^^^^
How much are the CS caps?

See here. Look good IMO. I'm thinking of adding these and the PP front and rear GTI badges, available from the same place, as the red looks good against Tungsten Silver.

[Watts]

^^^^
How much are the CS caps?

See here. Look good IMO. I'm thinking of adding these and the PP front and rear GTI badges, available from the same place, as the red looks good against Tungsten Silver.

They do look good but €70 with p&p? Maybe my local dealer can order them? Would look great with my TR car

[BigD]

^^^^
How much are the CS caps?

See here. Look good IMO. I'm thinking of adding these and the PP front and rear GTI badges, available from the same place, as the red looks good against Tungsten Silver.

They do look good but €70 with p&p? Maybe my local dealer can order them? Would look great with my TR car

I ordered them through TPS

[Watts]

Today I finished the clean I started yesterday. It wasn't too dirty but I wanted to get a layer of wax on because of the freshly painted wing. Washed with Gtechniq G Wash and waxed with Finish Kare FK1000p. Easy to apply and buff off with a good shine. Glass courtesy of AG Fast Glass. Found a small area on the drivers door where the bodyshop has missed with the polisher presumably when they blended in the new paint, will go back next week and get it sorted otherwise it was an excellent job.













Love TR when it's clean, looked better earlier when the sun was stronger but very pleased with the overall result

Inevitably one of our feathered friends dumped on the roof in the few moments I was indoors getting the glass cleaner

[gtiaps]

Today I finished the clean I started yesterday. It wasn't too dirty but I wanted to get a layer of wax on because of the freshly painted wing. Washed with Gtechniq G Wash and wa xed with Finish Kare FK1000p. Easy to apply and buff off with a good shine. Glass courtesy of AG Fast Glass. Found a small area on the drivers door where the bodyshop has missed with the polisher presumably when they blended in the new paint, will go back next week and get it sorted otherwise it was an excellent job.













Love TR when it's clean, looked better earlier when the sun was stronger but very pleased with the overall result

Inevitably one of our feathered friends dumped on the roof in the few moments I was indoors getting the glass cleaner

As always looks spot on...
Fitted my aliexpress dead pedal today not even 10 mins thanks to an earlier post about makin the gap in the 2 locaters slightly wider...

[Watts]

As always looks spot on...
Fitted my aliexpress dead pedal today not even 10 mins thanks to an earlier post about makin the gap in the 2 locaters slightly wider...

Cheers Plenty of stonechips and small marks, I think it's a bit of a fools errand trying to keep up with it all.

The footrest is rather good and as Booth has said, does feel better, not sure why. As for spending time fitting it properly, pah, brute force and ignorance wins everytime