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Model specific boards => Golf mk5 => Topic started by: 08micsta on 16 September 2007, 17:30
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I could not resist. Call me a spoil sport.
Ok. Its been over two months sice the GTI was last washed. :sick: So today i could not take it anymore. Seeing black Monza Rims evertime I looked at the car and actually seeing the dirt on her drove me mad.
So. i check the weather.
Monday: 18 Degrees (Sunny)
Tuesday: 27 Degrees (Sunny
Wednesday: 30 Degrees (Sunny Doh!)
Thursday: 24 Degrees (Partly cloudy)
Ok. So its safe to wash the car. Pull her out and whip out the ever so handy Jetwasher.
I spray the car done making sure that all the dirt is off and to cut a long story short. I clean, detail and photograph her.
While cleaning the car i noticed a few minor design flaws. Some very Interesting things that I had never seen before.
1. Why is it that no matter what you do water always somehow comes out the VW Emblem on the boot no matter how many times you dry it?
2. Why are the shiny plastic peices between the doors scratched to bits when nobody ever closes the door by touching them? (Rule in the house. Only ever shut the door when holding the handle) and its not one door. Its all of them. :sick:
3. Why do the rear vents inside somehow seem to be dirtier than the front ones?
4. Why can i never seem get the honeycromb grill dry???
5. Why is it that the cd player cant handle anything with treble? Is it just me or do the treble speakers/tweeters whatever overpower the subs?
6. Why the heck does the cupholder in the centerconsole never work? Bye bye daddies new D900i Samsung (2 Days old. Coffeeee incident)
7. Why is that after two months of normal slow driving (Mom is there something you wanna tell me?) I had to throw the chamois/shammy away because of all the rubber on the back bumper? Its front wheel drive!!!??
8. Why do i have to fix the rear cupholders every weekend?
9. And finally. Why is there a huge scratch on the honeycromb grill?
There was other stuff i noticed. But i cant think of them now. This sounds stupid but honestly? They design such stunning cars but small things like these.. Who comes up with the designs?
What other small things do you guys (and girls) notice about your GTI's that irritate you?
I will post pictures on wednesday after I get back from camp......................... :grin:
IS there anyway you can get rid of a scratch on plastic? Will post a pic of the scratch :sick:
Mike :smiley:
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One more niggle there and you could have had your very own top ten :grin:
With me it is more the way that the missis treats the car that niggles me :wink:
If pushed:-
Pescara's are too hard to clean and it is impossible to clean the calipers without taking the alloys off.
When you open the rear hatch to dry inside the frame after cleaning it, all the excess water drips INSIDE the car - why couldn't they have designed it so that the drips collected and dripped into the channels?
The plastic next to the side bolsters on the seat do not look like they were designed for the car and look too cheap.
Errr...that's about it.
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To clean the calipers I bought a wheel brush from Halfrouds and bent it to a gentle curve. With it I can manage to get most of the calipers clean. :wink:
I know what you mean about the rear hatch, you end up opening it half way for a few seconds for the water to drain away.
The stereo could be better..ok blah blah blah, fit your own head unit :rolleyes: But after spending all this money on a good car (and not wanting to spend anymore money), I expected it to sound better than the one in my MK iv that I had just sold :angry:
The wheels aren't too bad, not as easy as the Avus IIs on the Mkiv. I treated them with wheel sealer and they come clean quite easily.
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Mmmmmmmmmmmmm, cleaning Pescara's. :sad:
Life,
Draining,
Away.
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Must keep cleaning wheels.................................. :laugh:
Keep cleaning wheels must.................................. :laugh:
Cleaning wheels must keep................................... :laugh:
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How about VW's cheapskatedness for not supplying a force-field to keep those bl00dy flies from committing Harikari on the front of my lovely clean car :grin:
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How about VW's cheapskatedness for not supplying a force-field to keep those bl00dy flies from committing Harikari on the front of my lovely clean car :grin:
I'll second that motion!! :grin:
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My random irritation:
DSG paddles are arranged so that left=change down and right=change up. The high-line display shows '6 5 4 3 2 1', meaning that changing up with the right paddle means that the highlighted moves left towards the higher gear.....
How difficult would '1 2 3 4 5 6' have been.....?
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or making the 1 2 3 in bigger numbers would of been nice!
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or making the 1 2 3 in bigger numbers would of been nice!
Agree with that.
The gear you're in should be in a bold display, fag-packet size, with nowt else in the window when you're in paddle mode.
Also, door speakers buzz like hell with even a little bass.*
The dash rattles, albeit intermittently.*
*Not good enough at this money.
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or making the 1 2 3 in bigger numbers would of been nice!
In D no problem but if you used the paddles or dropped it into S mode that would be spot on :wink:
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Oh forgot one other minor irritation.............having to cope with boy racers next to me, revving their fcuking engines at the traffic lights in their 1.2 corsas/saxo's/fiestas :sick:
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Oh forgot one other minor irritation.............having to cope with boy racers next to me, revving their fcuking engines at the traffic lights in their 1.2 corsas/saxo's/fiestas :sick:
Yeah, but you just leave them floundering in your wake when the lights change! :smug:
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having to press open on the key twice to open the passanger door, how stupid :huh: and having to hold the lock button to put up the windows, ( im sorry but if your gonna lock the car your not gonna want to leave the windows open are u, it should do it automatically) :laugh:
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having to press open on the key twice to open the passanger door, how stupid :huh:
Erm, that is quite a sensible "anti-car-jack" function. The first press unlocks just the drivers door, and the second unlocks the boot and the remaining doors. If you don't like it that way, you can go back to the single push to unlock all, via the highline 'puter, a mate with VAG-COM, or a trip to the stealer.
and having to hold the lock button to put up the windows, ( im sorry but if your gonna lock the car your not gonna want to leave the windows open are u, it should do it automatically) :laugh:
Why? If I'm parked on a secure car park on a hot sunny day, or if someone has left a pet in the car, it is perfectly reasonable to leave the windows open. You simply release your "hold" on the button when they have reached a desired opening. :nerd:
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having to press open on the key twice to open the passanger door, how stupid :huh:
Erm, that is quite a sensible "anti-car-jack" function. The first press unlocks just the drivers door, and the second unlocks the boot and the remaining doors. If you don't like it that way, you can go back to the single push to unlock all, via the highline 'puter, a mate with VAG-COM, or a trip to the stealer.
and having to hold the lock button to put up the windows, ( im sorry but if your gonna lock the car your not gonna want to leave the windows open are u, it should do it automatically) :laugh:
Why? If I'm parked on a secure car park on a hot sunny day, or if someone has left a pet in the car, it is perfectly reasonable to leave the windows open. You simply release your "hold" on the button when they have reached a desired opening. :nerd:
sunny england?? :huh:lol
also who lets pets in their gti :sick: :laugh:
didnt know you can get the one press button though, i dont know about you TT but theres not many car jackers where i live :drool:
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also who lets pets in their gti :sick: :laugh:
Me!! My labrador comes to work with me every day in the boot! :smiley:
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I just thought of something that annoys me.... the way you have to 'park' the wipers before you can lift them away from the windscreen - already scratched the bonnet when I accidently hit the wiper stalk when I was cleaning :angry:
And another thing, the wobbly headlamp washer jet that I keep catching when washing - think thats a warranty issue on the first service though..
We GTI owners are SO particular!! :smiley:
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having to press open on the key twice to open the passanger door, how stupid :huh:
Erm, that is quite a sensible "anti-car-jack" function. The first press unlocks just the drivers door, and the second unlocks the boot and the remaining doors. If you don't like it that way, you can go back to the single push to unlock all, via the highline 'puter, a mate with VAG-COM, or a trip to the stealer.
and having to hold the lock button to put up the windows, ( im sorry but if your gonna lock the car your not gonna want to leave the windows open are u, it should do it automatically) :laugh:
Why? If I'm parked on a secure car park on a hot sunny day, or if someone has left a pet in the car, it is perfectly reasonable to leave the windows open. You simply release your "hold" on the button when they have reached a desired opening. :nerd:
sunny england?? :huh:lol
also who lets pets in their gti :sick: :laugh:
didnt know you can get the one press button though, i dont know about you TT but theres not many car jackers where i live :drool:
Where I work we have had a couple of attempted car jackings. Usually they nudge your rear bumper at the lights and then ask you to take a look at the damage. Both times it failed and one guy even turned around and chased the guy onto the pavement in his car :shocked:
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having to press open on the key twice to open the passanger door, how stupid :huh:
Erm, that is quite a sensible "anti-car-jack" function. The first press unlocks just the drivers door, and the second unlocks the boot and the remaining doors. If you don't like it that way, you can go back to the single push to unlock all, via the highline 'puter, a mate with VAG-COM, or a trip to the stealer.
and having to hold the lock button to put up the windows, ( im sorry but if your gonna lock the car your not gonna want to leave the windows open are u, it should do it automatically) :laugh:
Why? If I'm parked on a secure car park on a hot sunny day, or if someone has left a pet in the car, it is perfectly reasonable to leave the windows open. You simply release your "hold" on the button when they have reached a desired opening. :nerd:
sunny england?? :huh:lol
also who lets pets in their gti :sick: :laugh:
didnt know you can get the one press button though, i dont know about you TT but theres not many car jackers where i live :drool:
Where I work we have had a couple of attempted car jackings. Usually they nudge your rear bumper at the lights and then ask you to take a look at the damage. Both times it failed and one guy even turned around and chased the guy onto the pavement in his car :shocked:
should get your self over to the red rose county then haha :wink: :laugh:
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Minor issues for me are the creaks/rattles from the center dash top vent area and the average quality of the standard sound system, plus if I were to spec the vehicle myself rather than buy used I would have had zenons and the highline comp! All else is fairly pleasing.....!! :wink:
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i have to say, the funniest thing in mine i love is if im in a town centre at the front of a cue at pedestrian crossing, is activating the bi-xeon headlamp washers with lots of screeen wash (gets very soapy with high concentration) when young chavs walk infront of the car. Oh boy the reaction is pricless!! :wink:
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I just thought of something that annoys me.... the way you have to 'park' the wipers before you can lift them away from the windscreen - already scratched the bonnet when I accidently hit the wiper stalk when I was cleaning :angry:
Yebut, they are like that to improve aerodynamic efficiency. Just look at your own sig pic, and play "spot the wipers".
And another thing, the wobbly headlamp washer jet that I keep catching when washing - think thats a warranty issue on the first service though..
If it is the painted cap which is sitting slightly proud of the bumper, then they are easy, but fiddly to adjust.
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i have to say, the funniest thing in mine i love is if im in a town centre at the front of a cue at pedestrian crossing, is activating the bi-xeon headlamp washers with lots of screeen wash (gets very soapy with high concentration) when young chavs walk infront of the car. Oh boy the reaction is pricless!! :wink:
Sweet. :laugh: :laugh:
It is probably the only time the Chavs actually have a shower! :shocked:
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My only real complaint would be the boot release... although it looks nice, in winter it gets covered with soot and so does your hand when u open/close. In addition to the water mark left after a wash as mentioned before!
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My only real complaint would be the boot release... although it looks nice, in winter it gets covered with soot and so does your hand when u open/close. In addition to the water mark left after a wash as mentioned before!
What other design would you suggest? I reckon that any kind of boot release will get cruddy. What it really needs is something similar to the £30 option on my RS4 - auto boot opening! :smug: :smug:
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having to press open on the key twice to open the passanger door, how stupid :huh:
Erm, that is quite a sensible "anti-car-jack" function. The first press unlocks just the drivers door, and the second unlocks the boot and the remaining doors. If you don't like it that way, you can go back to the single push to unlock all, via the highline 'puter, a mate with VAG-COM, or a trip to the stealer.
and having to hold the lock button to put up the windows, ( im sorry but if your gonna lock the car your not gonna want to leave the windows open are u, it should do it automatically) :laugh:
Why? If I'm parked on a secure car park on a hot sunny day, or if someone has left a pet in the car, it is perfectly reasonable to leave the windows open. You simply release your "hold" on the button when they have reached a desired opening. :nerd:
sunny england?? :huh:lol
also who lets pets in their gti :sick: :laugh:
didnt know you can get the one press button though, i dont know about you TT but theres not many car jackers where i live :drool:
Where I work we have had a couple of attempted car jackings. Usually they nudge your rear bumper at the lights and then ask you to take a look at the damage. Both times it failed and one guy even turned around and chased the guy onto the pavement in his car :shocked:
Noo in Sheffield????? :shocked:
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I just thought of something that annoys me.... the way you have to 'park' the wipers before you can lift them away from the windscreen - already scratched the bonnet when I accidently hit the wiper stalk when I was cleaning :angry:
Yebut, they are like that to improve aerodynamic efficiency. Just look at your own sig pic, and play "spot the wipers".
And another thing, the wobbly headlamp washer jet that I keep catching when washing - think thats a warranty issue on the first service though..
If it is the painted cap which is sitting slightly proud of the bumper, then they are easy, but fiddly to adjust.
How can you adjust the headlamp washer cap if it sits a little proud TT?
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I just thought of something that annoys me.... the way you have to 'park' the wipers before you can lift them away from the windscreen - already scratched the bonnet when I accidently hit the wiper stalk when I was cleaning :angry:
Yebut, they are like that to improve aerodynamic efficiency. Just look at your own sig pic, and play "spot the wipers".
And another thing, the wobbly headlamp washer jet that I keep catching when washing - think thats a warranty issue on the first service though..
If it is the painted cap which is sitting slightly proud of the bumper, then they are easy, but fiddly to adjust.
How can you adjust the headlamp washer cap if it sits a little proud TT?
Yeah how? Its this little cap that sticks out at one corner on mine, therefore not sitting flush, catches when washing, any tips how to fix this gratefully received! :smiley:
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I read a post on VWVortex about the door edges on the Golfs actually bending when you open them, if its been snowing? Apparently VW will fix it for free but how annoying must that be? You gotta remove the ice else it bends the bottom tips of the door when you open it?
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I read a post on VWVortex about the door edges on the Golfs actually bending when you open them, if its been snowing? Apparently VW will fix it for free but how annoying must that be? You gotta remove the ice else it bends the bottom tips of the door when you open it?
That doesn't sound good!
Similarly the door seals have been known to pull off in icy conditions :cry:
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jus got another!
when it raining and your window is slightly down, you get a waterfall through your window when you go round a corner!! :angry:
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lol dont have the window down when its raining then ! :laugh:
Common sence surly !?
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lol dont have the window down when its raining then ! :laugh:
Common sence surly !?
wont fin the future :drool:
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What about the fact that you can never get rid of the water on the grille for at least a day afterwards?
Or the red brake calipers that no matter how much I spray I cnt get clean?
LOL
Must....stop...complaining....
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I hate the way I have to pay to put petrol in every week.
FFS !
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plus 1 :angry:
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I hate the way I have to pay to put petrol in every week.
FFS !
you know the answer to that :lipsrsealed: :laugh: :laugh:
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I read a post on VWVortex about the door edges on the Golfs actually bending when you open them, if its been snowing? Apparently VW will fix it for free but how annoying must that be? You gotta remove the ice else it bends the bottom tips of the door when you open it?
I saw that as well. I think that they changed the seal that meets the front wing and windscreen so that that ice melt is drained away else where.
The problem was that the water was going behind the front wing, down by the A pillar and building up by the door shut. So when you opened the door the door skin pealed back :sick:
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My new minor irritation is the new style bottle opener!! If u place it in the cup holder position its good for nothing... and if you leave it in its place and then put anything in the lower section of the compartment it comes out!! Whats the point???
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By far the most irritating thing is the seatbelt warning alarm. This goes off even if I put a small object on the passenger seat. Beep, beep F*%!in beep, shut up!!!
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I second that!! Had a damn playstation game on there and it was bleepin when i went round corners..
Oh yeah and that figure that appears next to the mpg on the trip computer! :drool:
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You can just about get away with a mobile phone, anything bigger is mistaken for a human!!
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My new minor irritation is the new style bottle opener!! If u place it in the cup holder position its good for nothing... and if you leave it in its place and then put anything in the lower section of the compartment it comes out!! Whats the point???
Agreed....the bottle opener is a total waste of time. I also hate the cheap interior handle on the drivers door ( with the mirror controls on ) . It flexes on a hot day and wobbles when you shut the door .
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the way the passenger seat belt clasp rattles on the bpost plastic also the bloody balls on the end of the strings on the parcel shelf that bounce off sides also the fold in mirrors whats the point...
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My irritations are the aweful stereos they fit as standard, and the way I can see the boot flex when I close it at the bottom.
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another thing that pisses me off, washed the car this morning dried all the windows lowered them to clean the tops raised them again to find milking of the glass pos rubber problem :angry: hating this car for all its faults.
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another thing that pisses me off, washed the car this morning dried all the windows lowered them to clean the tops raised them again to find milking of the glass pos rubber problem :angry: hating this car for all its faults.
:sick:Hope that is one I don't get.
Got any pics?
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Having to drive the wife's Toyota Aygo to the shops - the GTI doesn't go anywhere near retail car parks :wink:
Cass