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Golf mk8 / Re: I have a feeling my dealer is lying
« Last post by fredgroves on 03 April 2025, 22:04 »
Main importer? You spoke to vw UK?

If that's right then I'm not surprised. They out and out refused to talk to me when I complained about the state of my brand new mk8.

Worst customer relations I've ever seen and on the most expensive thing I've ever bought other than a house.
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Golf mk7 / Re: What have you done to your MK 7 today ?
« Last post by rowlers on 03 April 2025, 21:51 »
Quote from: Watts on 03 April 2025, 21:33
Quote from: rowlers on 03 April 2025, 21:23
Bought it a friend...

Run about to keep miles off my Golf and for my daughter to use when home from uni..

That looks pretty tidy!
Haha
£1800 12mth MOT. Gonna service it and see how it goes. Central locking broken, pass window doesn't work. 3 different keys. Gotta love banger!
Plenty of rust on the rear suspension arms etc, so I'll wire brush it off and get some Dynax on it. It'll do a job!
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Golf mk7 / Re: What have you done to your MK 7 today ?
« Last post by Watts on 03 April 2025, 21:33 »
Quote from: rowlers on 03 April 2025, 21:23
Bought it a friend...

Run about to keep miles off my Golf and for my daughter to use when home from uni..

That looks pretty tidy!
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Golf mk7 / FITCAMX Dash Cam
« Last post by smig on 03 April 2025, 21:26 »
Anyone used one of these? Any feed back as I like the idea of its oem integration?
https://fitcamx.com/products/fitcamx-dash-cam-for-volkswagen-golf-mk8-gte-gtd-gti-r
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Golf mk7 / Re: What have you done to your MK 7 today ?
« Last post by rowlers on 03 April 2025, 21:23 »
Bought it a friend...



Run about to keep miles off my Golf and for my daughter to use when home from uni..
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Golf mk7 / Re: What have you done to your MK 7 today ?
« Last post by Watts on 03 April 2025, 19:38 »
Three days with the car parked away, put it back on the drive about midday and just checked, bl@@dy rat has been back. More food secreted around the battery. Have peppermint oil arriving tonight, an ultrasonic/strobe light gadget to go under the bonnet with a movement sensor and a couple of rat traps.

And to add insult to injury, I've noticed a small dent on the bonnet too. No idea how that happened. No paint damage and very minor but still very annoying :angry:
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Golf mk7 / Re: Urano Grey
« Last post by willni on 03 April 2025, 19:31 »
Dark coloured and non-metallic so it'll show a lot of swirls especially with VW's medium hardness paint. Wouldn't be a colour I'd go for personally, tornado red is in a similar boat that being said although has a few worse bits as well being red.
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Golf mk7 / Re: Urano Grey
« Last post by Exonian on 03 April 2025, 18:54 »
Yes, thanks SR, my thinking too.
It’d probably be just about the last colour (after flat black) I’d actually choose but…

Quote from: Adam T7 on 02 April 2025, 21:25
Personally, I don’t like it, but that’s just my opinion.

Yeah, same. There’s a mid range boring model Golf parked around the corner from me and it looks incredibly plain on that car, however on madstaff’s Ed40 it looks really good, and different. So maybe not a colour to be dismissed out of hand so long as it’s offset with the right spec.
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Golf mk7 / Re: Spring sale on VW service plans
« Last post by joe6 on 03 April 2025, 18:13 »
My grandson has just purchased an Audi A3. All in plan is £887.76. Cheekily tried to get him the VW plan but on putting in the number plate was told "this is not a VW". :sad: All handled by vwfinance so a bit surprised at the huge difference in prices.
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Golf mk6 / Re: What have you done to your Mk6 today then?
« Last post by joe6 on 03 April 2025, 18:04 »
Had this rust starting my 2010 gti about 5 years ago. The rear suspension arms take a lot of hammer. The driver side is usually worse. Cleaned the surface with coarse sander paper, applied rust inhibitor (jenolite) and further sander paper and jenolite then 3 coats of black hammerite spray paint and finally waxoil I still had at the back of the garage from years ago!! Needed heating to allow it to be sprayed with an old multi-surface cleaner bottle. Small top up in a couple of areas last year. No comments from my MOT two week ago.
Had the front upper anti-roll bar joints replaced last year for about £100 I think.
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