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Model specific boards => Golf mk7 => Golf mk7 GTD/TDI => Topic started by: stuart.cameron on 03 February 2014, 10:11
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VW Golf MK7 GTD 2.0
Carbon Grey
Date Ordered - 27/08/13
BW - 51
Collected - 24/01/13
Dealership - Ingrams, Ayr
The car was ordered via www.carwow.com, Ingrams got in touch and we negotiated a deal. The whole experience with Ingrams was excellent. The salesman picked me up from the station took me back to the dealership, sorted out the paperwork, showed me round the car and I was off!
Keyless
Works well, key never has to leave my pocket anymore. Jump in and hit the start button.
Discovery Nav Pro
The nav pro really finishes off the interior of the golf, it’s an expensive option for what it is but I do use the satnav quite a bit.
Winter Pack
Heated seats are a must. Nothing better on a cold morning!
Reverse Camera
This option wasn’t available when I ordered my car, it later became available and I added it on. At £165 it seemed reasonable.
Park Assist
Purely spec’d to see how well it actually works and I can confirm it works brilliantly!
Overall the car is great, MPG is slightly disappointing but hopefully things will improve. Inside the car looks great and the interior lighting is top notch. ACC works great, along with the electronic handbrake and hold assist.
Upgrades
- Replaced the vanity, glove box and boot lights for LED’s
- Replace the static cornering lights for Orsam Night Breaker Unlimited H7’s (Still to be done)
- Replace the reverse lights for LED’s (Still to be done)
VCDS Mods (Still to be done)
- Enable DRL’s & fog lights to be used as coming home / leaving home lights
- Automatic activation of CH lights
- Automatic rain closing
- Chirp on locking
- Change the DRL’s to run at full brightness
- Enable taillights to be on when DRL’s are on
- Inside rear red LEDs remain on when CH active and locking vehicle
- Puddle lights illuminate irrespectively of mirror position
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Very nice Stuart.
Similar spec to mine (albeit I added Dynamic chassis control and auto main beam assist). The CSG looks really good, but then to be honest, I haven't seen a bad colour on the MK7 yet.
Just cleaned mine this weekend (first time in 3 weeks) and she looks stunning as well (Pure white). I also recently saw a Midnight blue one in the flesh over the weekend and have to say it looked fantastic too.
Don't worry too much about the MPG - it will improve, just be realistic with your expectations. Mid sixties is never really going to be acheivable (maybe going downhill with a following wind), but mine over 3,600 miles is averaging 46mpg - and most of that is my standard city commuting. I can regularly get mid fifties on my commute home from work, and so it makes it slightly more economical that my older Scirocco 140 TDI, which used to average 45mpg with "only" 140ps !
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I was going to go for the Midnight Blue but in the end settled for Carbon Grey!
Hopefully things improve, I was expecting mid to high 40's definitely. So far I have a 36.5mpg and 36.9mpg.
www.fuelly.com/driver/stuart180/golf
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Lovely looking car, love the CG. Id be interested in how you go about changing the DRL’s to run at full brightness as well as how to enable the taillights to be on when DRL’s are. How easy is this to do?
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Lovely looking car, love the CG. Id be interested in how you go about changing the DRL’s to run at full brightness as well as how to enable the taillights to be on when DRL’s are. How easy is this to do?
http://vcds.greg-roberts.com/view-entries/details/1/10
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Lovely looking car the more I see it in cg the more I think the next golf is going to be that colour. I have to try and get hold of VCDS so I can make some of those mods.
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Just looking at the new review on here today (Czech one) and think the GTD looks great in white, but these photos still convince me that CG was my right choice.
I would just add though it will probably need washing regular as it does show the dust, especially on the rear tailgate.
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Lovely car Stuart! Really looking forward to getting mine now. I still don't know how anyone can stomach £1700 for the satnav. Daylight robbery in my opinion! The basic nav should be free (as it is on the GT) and maybe a £500 upgrade to the pro nav?
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Agree they should include basic nav on the GTi/D given the GT gets it but then they would just bump the price up by £750 to cover it. Another £1000 for the pro system does seem excessive, tempting for sure for the bigger screen but I'm delighted with the Discovery system I have as I don't use it a lot.
Guess not including it as standard keeps the cost of the cars down a little and lets people choose if they want nav or not. Plenty of people are happy not to go for it.
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Weird though isn't it.
They put on Xenon headlights that cost over a £1000 more than a standard setup, something many people would not think about adding, but then forget about a Satnav system.
I suppose they have their marketing reasons.
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I think once you've had xenon headlights... its shocking when you go back to halogens...
A bit like air-conditioning and to an extent power steering...
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I think once you've had xenon headlights... its shocking when you go back to halogens...
A bit like air-conditioning and to an extent power steering...
Agreed, not been without Xenon lights since 2001 on my cars. Perhaps they should have stripped all these things back and made it a £20k car. Let the purchaser decide which headline grabbing option they prefer.
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Yesterday I managed to give it a good clean and sealed with Gtechniq Exo.
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Very nice. Glad I eventually chose Carbon Grey over Blue.
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Very nice indeed. I've swung from csg to blue myself at the moment, but I'm still not 100%. I actually didn't get round to changing the order to blue yet, so will have to see if I actually do... :)
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Looks amazing!!
Any chance of some side on shots please?
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I also saw your car on detailingworld and it looks fantastic.
I'm torn between the Candy White and Carbon. Its holding up my order :cry:
Any other pictures maybe side on?
Cheers.
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Looks great mate. Wish I had a space like that to detail my car in. Top job!
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I'm torn between the Candy White and Carbon. Its holding up my order :cry:
I placed my order for the exact same car (3-door GTD) in white - I then spent several months being restless about it and eventually changed to Carbon Grey about a week before it went Build week confirmed! Definately the right decision I think :-)
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I placed my order for the exact same car (3-door GTD) in white - I then spent several months being restless about it and eventually changed to Carbon Grey about a week before it went Build week confirmed! Definately the right decision I think :-)
I'm just worried about swirls, scratches and stone chips.
I had a Deep Black Pearl Mk6 and by the end of its 3 years the front looked like it had been pebble dashed. There were literally thousands of stone chips. Although I am quite anal about washing the car with the 2 bucket method, the car wasn't the best in the bright sunshine.
I've currently got an A1 in pure white metallic and while it doesn't shine up as well as a dark colour, it hides a multitude of sins.
So one day I've convinced myself its white for definite then I look at the likes of the Carbon Grey here and change my mind.
Its driving me nuts.
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I also saw your car on detailingworld and it looks fantastic.
I'm torn between the Candy White and Carbon. Its holding up my order :cry:
Any other pictures maybe side on?
Cheers.
Cheers mate!
Will get some side on shots for those who are interested.
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I placed my order for the exact same car (3-door GTD) in white - I then spent several months being restless about it and eventually changed to Carbon Grey about a week before it went Build week confirmed! Definately the right decision I think :-)
I'm just worried about swirls, scratches and stone chips.
I had a Deep Black Pearl Mk6 and by the end of its 3 years the front looked like it had been pebble dashed. There were literally thousands of stone chips. Although I am quite anal about washing the car with the 2 bucket method, the car wasn't the best in the bright sunshine.
I've currently got an A1 in pure white metallic and while it doesn't shine up as well as a dark colour, it hides a multitude of sins.
So one day I've convinced myself its white for definite then I look at the likes of the Carbon Grey here and change my mind.
Its driving me nuts.
Yeah, I would agree black was a pain to keep clean and looking good. Carbon grey will hopefully be a little more forgiving! The paintwork was pretty spot on when I got the car so no need for any polishing. Hopefully the Gtechniq EXO will hold up well enough so a snow foam every so often will keep it looking good.
When cleaning it I did notice I have a couple of stone chips on the bonnet, not as noticeable compared to my black polo.
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At last the sun shines and the car stays clear of mud from the country roads where I live.
What I would say about Carbon Grey is it is a bugger to keep clean even when it does not rain. I always use the local car wash boys to do it, great job too, but some water marks always drip and show. But the worse bit is the tailgate area, which shows up dust and within two days is pretty mucky after the due lands on it at night.
I think the answer with this colour is you need to wash it regularly. I might go for white if I get another one as they always are easy to clean and do not need wash leathering afterwards, except for the glass areas.
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At last the sun shines and the car stays clear of mud from the country roads where I live.
What I would say about Carbon Grey is it is a bugger to keep clean even when it does not rain. I always use the local car wash boys to do it, great job too, but some water marks always drip and show. But the worse bit is the tailgate area, which shows up dust and within two days is pretty mucky after the due lands on it at night.
I think the answer with this colour is you need to wash it regularly. I might go for white if I get another one as they always are easy to clean and do not need wash leathering afterwards, except for the glass areas.
Interesting to read this as I am about to loose my candy white mk6 gt for a carbon grey gtd mk 7. Chose grey mainly cos the white always looks dirty! Oh well. A change is as good as a rest!
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You will not regret it - love my CG 3-door DSG.... :smiley:
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Perhaps a daft question, but why do some people abbreviate Carbon Grey to CSG?
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Carbon Steel Grey :smiley:
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Perhaps a daft question, but why do some people abbreviate Carbon Grey to CSG?
Carbon Grey is know as Carbon Steel Grey in some other markets, such as North America. Same colour as Carbon Grey though.
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Ah right, thanks. I've obviously seen UK brochures refer to both steel grey and carbon grey, but never carbon steel grey.
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Carbon Grey is know as Carbon Steel Grey in some other markets, such as North America. Same colour as Carbon Grey though.
Thats what I thought until I recently saw the colour swatch on the wall of my local dealer which was captioned 'Carbon Steel Grey'.
Beware - 'Steel Grey' is a completely different (and lighter) colour (from the Mk.5 days).
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The 'Post a picture of your mk6 Golf' thread in the mk6 section has got pictures of Carbon Grey (or Carbon Steel Grey) and Steel Grey Golfs. Check out replies #3, 13, 15 (Carbon Grey) and #9 (Steel Grey).
Link below;
http://www.golfgtiforum.co.uk/index.php?topic=158784.0
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As said, in the mk6 days there was Carbon Grey (darker) and Steel Grey (lighter). For mk7 it now seems to be just the one known on the vw configurator as Carbon Grey Metallic, which is the darker one formerly known as Carbon Grey. Seems to also get referred to as Carbon Steel Grey (CSG). Confusing eh!
Pic below (though American) demonstrates the two different colours. Top pics - Carbon Grey, bottom pics - Steel Grey.
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Same colour as I have ordered, looks amazing.
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Mine arrived on 6th. Looked great in the sun
http://i1254.photobucket.com/albums/hh602/VirtualCamper/Mobile%20Uploads/20150306_141942.jpg
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Mine arrived on 6th. Looked great in the sun
http://i1254.photobucket.com/albums/hh602/VirtualCamper/Mobile%20Uploads/20150306_141942.jpg
you are are making me so jealous :sick:
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Looking forward to picking up my CSG Mk7 GTD next weekend - will hopefully get it home for a proper wash and wax soon afterwards. Hoping the paintwork is in good enough nick that it won't need a detail quite yet.
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Here's what it looks like dirty!
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And clean!