Looks brilliant, great choice! I notice in the wheel arches, there are black strips that overlap the paint - any idea what these are? They don't appear on everything GTI I've seen on Autotrader, so wondering if it's something that is meant to be removed during PDI?
They’re called wheel arch spoilers.
They’re fitted to the mk8 Golf when it has 19” wheels, which are wider than the standard 18”. The optional 19” wheels are also fitted with 235 section tyres (225’s on the standard 18” wheels). Wider wheels and tyres mean that the wheels protrude outwards further than the standard 18” wheels, leaving the tyre tread exposed, so the solution is for manufacturers to fit wheel arch spoilers to cover the exposed tyre tread section.
It’s not just VW that fit them, I think it may be a legal requirement for all car manufacturers to fit them where certain wheel / tyre combinations result in exposed tyre tread that could cause injury.