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Model specific boards => Golf mk6 => Topic started by: Ste GTD on 13 December 2012, 18:58

Title: R steering wheel in GTD
Post by: Ste GTD on 13 December 2012, 18:58
When i got my GTD i noticed the steering wheel had the R badge instead of the GTD one and the plastic bits around the steering wheel are gloss black instead of silver, so i take it thats the R steering wheel. Anyone seen that before or have VW put the wrong one in? Im not complaining like it looks alot better, just curious.

Ste
Title: Re: R steering wheel in GTD
Post by: ScottA on 13 December 2012, 19:10
When i got my GTD i noticed the steering wheel had the R badge instead of the GTD one and the plastic bits around the steering wheel are gloss black instead of silver, so i take it thats the R steering wheel. Anyone seen that before or have VW put the wrong one in? Im not complaining like it looks alot better, just curious.

Ste

Did you buy new or used?
I would assume used and the previous owner changed it
Title: Re: R steering wheel in GTD
Post by: Ste GTD on 13 December 2012, 19:13
I bought it brand new
Title: Re: R steering wheel in GTD
Post by: jonesltd on 13 December 2012, 20:18
Make sure you were not charged for it?
Title: Re: R steering wheel in GTD
Post by: ScottA on 13 December 2012, 20:26
I bought it brand new

 :undecided:
Title: Re: R steering wheel in GTD
Post by: Murrayedition35 on 13 December 2012, 20:27
Sounds like a mistake.... :smiley:
Title: Re: R steering wheel in GTD
Post by: Ste GTD on 13 December 2012, 20:53
Make sure you were not charged for it?

Yeah i was'nt charged for it either. If i remember correctly when it was mention to the dealer on picking the car up, he did'nt even know it was ment to say GTD, which says it all about my local VW

Sounds like a mistake.... :smiley:

Atleast its a good mistake  :smiley:
Title: Re: R steering wheel in GTD
Post by: ajmoir36 on 13 December 2012, 21:17
Sweet, just hope they stuck in 4wd too!!!!
Title: Re: R steering wheel in GTD
Post by: Jimble on 13 December 2012, 23:11
That would really bug me cos it doesn't match anything! :angry:
Title: Re: R steering wheel in GTD
Post by: Mr GTD on 13 December 2012, 23:28
How odd :undecided:

It sounds as if they forgot what they were assembling some where along the assembly line  :laugh:
Title: Re: R steering wheel in GTD
Post by: Murrayedition35 on 14 December 2012, 09:09
I would be changing it....or getting the dealer to sort it out.... :wink:
Title: Re: R steering wheel in GTD
Post by: RickS on 14 December 2012, 09:33
When i got my GTD i noticed the steering wheel had the R badge instead of the GTD one and the plastic bits around the steering wheel are gloss black instead of silver, so i take it thats the R steering wheel. Anyone seen that before or have VW put the wrong one in? Im not complaining like it looks alot better, just curious.

Ste

This is most odd - I wonder if someone picked up their new R and it had a GTD steering wheel  :grin: most disappointing.
Title: Re: R steering wheel in GTD
Post by: mkviken on 14 December 2012, 10:05
i wouldnt like that on my car personally.

it would alway leave a doubt in my mind as to why it was wrong.




i once knew a lad with a fiesta which had a mazda 121 steering wheel - i told him his car had obviously had in air bag deployed as it was the wrong wheel - he didnt even realise the mazda badge wasnt a ford badge!
Title: Re: R steering wheel in GTD
Post by: Snoopy on 14 December 2012, 12:14
VW QC  :grin:
Quite a few cars got through with either leather door panels or one leather door panel with cloth interior at the start.
Title: Re: R steering wheel in GTD
Post by: ajmoir36 on 14 December 2012, 16:22
That would really bug me cos it doesn't match anything! :angry:

True resale might make people things the airbags gone off and the wheel replaced, I would be suspicous as a buyer.
Title: Re: R steering wheel in GTD
Post by: Ginge 35Edition on 14 December 2012, 19:28
I'd get them to change it and tell them I wanted the R wheel as compensation and flog it.
Title: Re: R steering wheel in GTD
Post by: Murrayedition35 on 14 December 2012, 19:31
I would be looking for some compensation from the dealer... :smiley:
Title: Re: R steering wheel in GTD
Post by: ajmoir36 on 14 December 2012, 20:19
Although can they not just change the inserts?
Title: Re: R steering wheel in GTD
Post by: Ste GTD on 18 December 2012, 14:02
That would really bug me cos it doesn't match anything! :angry:

Hmm VW must of changed other interior parts aswell because the silver on the GTD steering wheel would'nt match anything ive got in the car, its all gloss black
Title: Re: R steering wheel in GTD
Post by: Buck on 18 December 2012, 16:11
On the newer GTDs, the insert is black gloss with just the letters in silver as opposed to mine which is all silver.

Title: Re: R steering wheel in GTD
Post by: Jimble on 18 December 2012, 20:14
That would really bug me cos it doesn't match anything! :angry:

Hmm VW must of changed other interior parts aswell because the silver on the GTD steering wheel would'nt match anything ive got in the car, its all gloss black

I meant the R logo tbh, the black would look fine cos it's the same as the dash and door trim.
Title: Re: R steering wheel in GTD
Post by: Edi35 on 19 December 2012, 23:10
I remember my dealer had a R which had GTI wheel from the factory, they ordered an R wheel befor it was sold. I would get a GTD wheel fitted if it was mine.