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Model specific boards => Golf mk7 => Topic started by: Sootchucker on 28 November 2022, 14:05
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HI all, as promised below are the photos of my new Tiguan after getting it on Friday and 2 full days of detailing it. Also done a few subtle mods (more info below)
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The minor mods.
Fitted chromed dead pedal and R-Line Rubber mats
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Chromed tweeter surround to match the front ones and Harmon Kardon badge
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Stainless Steel rear sill kick panels to match the fronts
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Mud flaps front and rear
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My Skoda washer bottle filler cap (rescued from the GTI)
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Battery Cover (also from the GTI)
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GTI's Dash cam fitted to the Tiguan
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Rear Footwell lighting added (harness from the GTI) and Blue LED footwell lights all round
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Stainless steel sill guards added front and rear
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Looks great :cool:. I really like the colour.
Look forward to hearing what life’s like with a Tiguan :smiley:.
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Very nice and subtlety done :cool:
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Very nice.
We've got a Kings Red 200TDI Elegance. Are the fake exhausts black on the RLine now? I'd like to de-chrome that trim on ours.
One thing that will annoy you after the Golf is the exposed rear view camera. Other than that, I think the Tig is getting close to a do all things car.
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That's what the Mk8 Golf interior should have been
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Ooh, that is really a rather lovely colour. :smiley:
Enjoy.
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Colour really suits the car and some tasteful mods in there too. I thought the Tiguan was on full digital dash now like the Tuareg?
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Thanks all. It's only been a few days, but already there are things that the Tiguan does better than the Golf and visa versa.
Tiguan Plus Points
Ride quality. As my GTI had DCC, it was pretty good in comfort mode (even on 19" alloys), but I have to say to being mighty impressed at the Tiguan (again with DCC) even though it's on bigger 20" wheels. The ride is simply superb, very cosseting but also not too loose over harder ground. It's also extremely quiet (eerily so in fact), with hardly any road or wind noise.
The panoramic sunroof is a revelation, pretty much covers the entire roof and tilts and slides (with an electric sunshade also).
Nice to have 30 colour ambient lighting in the doors and also in the back door too, makes it look really classy at night.
Having wireless Apple car play and wireless Android Auto is brilliant and works seamlessly and very quick to connect.
When in normal driving mode (not Eco), the car seems to have coasting built in, as when coming off the throttle, the revs drops drop to tick over.
GTI matrix adaptive headlights were very good, but the Tiguan's IQ fully adaptive lights are another level, and i feel that on main beam I could illuminate the moon !
Front brakes on the Tiguan seem massive compared to the GTI which had 312mm discs, whereas on the Tiguan the calipers are much bigger, and it looks like these are 340mm ?
GTI Plus Points
There's definitely been some cost cutting in some areas of the car. For instance, the GTI had a flocked (velvet) lined glove box whereas the Tiguan's is hard plastic. The A-Pillars on the GTI were soft touch materials whereas on the Tiguan they are not. Finally, the vanity mirror lights on the Tiguan now look super cheap white plastic jobbies and nowhere near as nice as on the GTI.
The engine cover on the Tiguan is a featureless cheap bendy piece of plastic (with no markings at all), where the GTI had a rather nice engine cover. I know this isn't a major point as the bonnet is closed most of the time, but it still cheapens things.
Even though the GTI had more power, the Tiguan is still worse off MPG wise (was expecting this), but to be fair it's only got 250 miles on it at present so maybe it will improve a little when fully run in.
In the GTI I could swap between Speed Limiter and Adaptive Cruise control from a button on the steering wheel, whereas now on the Tiguan it seems I have to go into the assistance systems (by pressing the button at the end of the indicator stalk) every time I want to change which is a pain.
Whilst the digital dash on the Tiguan does more than the GTI (i.e., much more configurable), it just doesn't look as nice as the Gen 1 AID's in the GTI.
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Time to update your forum car profile now Sootchucker!
The Tiguan looks really nice and classy in R-Line trim. Congrats. Lovely looking car.
You certainly didn’t hang around getting it detailed and adding the embellishments, not bad going for the end of November.
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GTI matrix adaptive headlights were very good, but the Tiguan's IQ fully adaptive lights are another level, and i feel that on main beam I could illuminate the moon !
They are superb, but just be mindful on motorways with solid central reservation barriers. The camera doesn't pick up the headlights of oncoming traffic. It's not an issue for oncoming cars as they can't see your headlights, but you will be lighting up the cabs of trucks. It took the full force of 10 Hella Jumbos for me notice my lights reflecting off The Snowman's high vis on his passenger seat.
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There's definitely been some cost cutting in some areas of the car. For instance, the GTI had a flocked (velvet) lined glove box whereas the Tiguan's is hard plastic. The A-Pillars on the GTI were soft touch materials whereas on the Tiguan they are not. Finally, the vanity mirror lights on the Tiguan now look super cheap white plastic jobbies and nowhere near as nice as on the GTI.
We had a Tiguan in London for a while as it was good for the bad roads and dozen speed humps (I'm not kidding) that we had to go over to get on to the main roads. One false move in the GTI (MKVI) and you'd scrape.
Does yours have a gas strut on the bonnet? That was something ours didn't have and my wife couldn't lift the bonnet because she travels closer to the ground and with a lower leverage point, she couldn't latch it. The Tiguan cost more than the MKVI Golf that preceded it yet illogically didn't have the gas strut!
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Yes, mine has a gas strut (and a pretty non descript engine cover)
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Yes, mine has a gas strut (and a pretty non descript engine cover)
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At least they didn't cheap out on that. I can see the logic on the engine cover from their perspective.