What have you bought for your Mk8?

[king monkey]

I’ve had these sitting in a box for months, only fitted them this week, thanks to a lot of help from a mate. It’s a fairly straightforward DIY job really. Delighted with them, it’s another thing that VW should have fitted from the factory. I’m much more inclined to use manual mode now.

Are these the R ones? If so I believe you have to take the steering wheel off?

[JoeGTI]

Yes, they’re the R paddles. No, you only need to remove the airbag (basically the centre piece of the wheel where you press the horn). This pops off quite easily, you just need to release 3 clips on the back of the wheel. Once you’ve that off you need to gently prise off the silver trim, it’s just clipped in. Once that’s off, the existing paddles are easily removed by undoing a Torx screw for each one and disconnecting them. The new paddles fit in exactly the same way.

Oh, other thing we did is remove the fuse for the horn. It kept going off and nearly giving us heart attacks / temporary deafness when removing the airbag!

Everything went back together 100% and no dash errors. I’d say it took about 20-25 mins.

Volkswizard has a video on it.

[fredgroves]

If they weren't so chuffing expensive I'd be on that...

[JoeGTI]

If they weren't so chuffing expensive I'd be on that...

Main dealer prices for them are ridiculous. I bought them here - https://www.cars-equipment.com/en/shop/switches-buttons-trims/oem-5h0951527-5h0951528-sport-dsg-paddles/

[fredgroves]

That's not bad actually. I might be tempted at that price.

[JoeGTI]

That's not bad actually. I might be tempted at that price.

I know of a local indie VW specialist who got wind of a few of us here (in Ireland) sourcing them from that particular supplier and he went and bought a load of them in bulk and now advertises it as a MK8 upgrade, fitted, for less than the price that main dealers charge for the parts.

[king monkey]

If they weren't so chuffing expensive I'd be on that...

Main dealer prices for them are ridiculous. I bought them here - https://www.cars-equipment.com/en/shop/switches-buttons-trims/oem-5h0951527-5h0951528-sport-dsg-paddles/

Thanks for the info Joe. I might actually have a go at those. I need to stop buying stuff though. So far I’ve bought:

RL gas strut
Gti rubber mats
Lockwood door sill protectors
Carbon inserts for door sill inserts which I’m getting some Clubsport decals for too.

[JoeGTI]

I have the RL gas strut too. Highly recommend it, it looks very OEM too. That’s my preference tbh, mods that look like they were factory fit.
I do have my eye on some nice sill plates from a guy in Germany, he’s active on Instagram…

https://www.mk8crew-shop.com/shop/vw---interior/einstiegsleisten-edelstahl-gebuerstet-door-sills-brushed-stainless-steel-1/

[king monkey]

I have the RL gas strut too. Highly recommend it, it looks very OEM too. That’s my preference tbh, mods that look like they were factory fit.
I do have my eye on some nice sill plates from a guy in Germany, he’s active on Instagram…

https://www.mk8crew-shop.com/shop/vw---interior/einstiegsleisten-edelstahl-gebuerstet-door-sills-brushed-stainless-steel-1/

They are lovely!

[Dav3smith]

I have the RL gas strut too. Highly recommend it, it looks very OEM too. That’s my preference tbh, mods that look like they were factory fit.
I do have my eye on some nice sill plates from a guy in Germany, he’s active on Instagram…

https://www.mk8crew-shop.com/shop/vw---interior/einstiegsleisten-edelstahl-gebuerstet-door-sills-brushed-stainless-steel-1/

Ah thanks for that, I knew I'd seen some somewhere and spent some time this week trying to find them and you've just solved the mystery. I wonder if there will be an illuminated one, it's one of the subtleties from my current car that is a shame hasn't carried over to the MK8, these might have to do though.