2018 Golf TCR and dealer information ?

[Hertsman]

No one going for the black roof?

Its nice, would like it, but its near doubling the paint cost from £595 to £1150 and thats not justifiable unless you really have to not watch the pennies at all.

They will be a rare spec

If for some mad reason you went for the signature look they pushing of the honeycomb decals at £550 you will have added a stonking £1105!

The car looks great in the pure grey and the red and the white and only at half that price at least would anyone consider - Climate Screen and the 90% Tints was where that saving went for me - something practical and useful and an investment in additional style but nominal

[CookieMonsterGTi]

No one going for the black roof?

Its also pretty expensive if you are getting the pan roof as its 2/3 black then anyway.  Should really be discounted in this situation!

[CookieMonsterGTi]

Anyone know what this zero cost option is:

LEDs for dynamic light assist
    Dynamic headlight control and dynamic cornering light
    LED headlamps with variable light distribution

If its zero cost why wouldn't you pick it?

[AGB]

No one going for the black roof?

If anyone wanted a black roof, would make more sense to wrap it. It's a ridiculous amount of money for what it is.

[AGB]

the standard sound system is more than adequate and in fact is probably beyond that as for example my penthouse and pavement CD sounds pretty good (have high end sonos ad Denon in house)

I'm sorry, everybody is entitled to their own opinion but this is not true, the difference is night & day.

The standard stereo is 8x normal paper-cone speakers with a standard 4x20w (80w max power) output driven from the main headunit (both Discover or Discover Pro).

Dynaudio is 400w (max power) sent over 9x speakers (8 speakers plus the sub), powered via a separate Dynaudio amp, not the headhunt. The front and rear speakers are 2-way sets (dual soft-dome tweeters and magnesium mid drivers), and the sub in the boot is a coil dual-voice.

I've rattled on about this many a time, but if you enjoy music and/or spend a lot of time in the car listening to music, then the Dynaudio really is a no brainer. Once you have it set-up (through the specific Dynaudio software menus in the headhunit) to your taste and sound type, it really does wipe the floor with the standard system, not to mention IMO easily beats BOSE and HK offerings I've had in other cars. The only system it's not beaten is the 1200w Meridian System I had in my Range Rover Sport, but that was 3x the power (and price!).

If you just listen to the radio around town, then it might not be for you, but was first on my ticklist as I love music and spend lots of time in the car travelling with it on.

I agree that the Dynaudio is much better than standard but the car as an acoustic environment isn't ideal so I have struggled to justify the cost. I'd rather save my listening for home and have the sound of the exhaust. When we're all driving sewing machines, a real exhaust note is what I think I will miss most. 

[TurboTrev]

No one going for the black roof?

If anyone wanted a black roof, would make more sense to wrap it. It's a ridiculous amount of money for what it is.

£500+ is a ridiculous amount of money.  It was £295 for my CS black roof (and it has a sunroof) and that was bad enough. The only thing I would say is, my mate has a wrapped gloss black roof on one of his cars and it looks good, but it's nowhere near the quality of my factory painted one.

[king monkey]

There’s a new TCR on autotrader for £38k. The world has gone mad!

[AGB]

No one going for the black roof?

If anyone wanted a black roof, would make more sense to wrap it. It's a ridiculous amount of money for what it is.

£500+ is a ridiculous amount of money.  It was £295 for my CS black roof (and it has a sunroof) and that was bad enough. The only thing I would say is, my mate has a wrapped gloss black roof on one of his cars and it looks good, but it's nowhere near the quality of my factory painted one.

Absolutely, no substitute for paint even if it is Volkswagen's orange peel special. 

[AGB]

There’s a new TCR on autotrader for £38k. The world has gone mad!

Amazing deal. You save £1,953 off the price advertised for the 30 seconds they advertised it at that price to use a saving call out on the ad.

[TCR]

Just working through my spec at the moment. Has anyone gone outside of pure grey, tints, Reifnitz wheels with dcc and pan roof?

From what I read I’m not sold yet on pro nav and dynaudio and wondered what others are considering?

I’ve gone for pure grey, Pretoria’s with DCC, carbon mirrors, extra rear tints and dynaudio.