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Your garage is smarter than my house! I’ve got garage envy now   

Hello, new here, so I want to properly introduce myself.
I'm Tom from Belgium, 52 years old and a real petrolhead.
After my first car (VW Polo) I 've been driving various hot hatches (Peugeot 205 Gti 1/9, 106 16v, ..., Skoda Octavia Vrs, Hyundai i30N manual and for the last 3,5 years a Hyundai i30N DCT). There's also an Abarth 124 spider in my garage, but that is purely a hobbycar.
Yesterday I ordered a Golf Gti 50 Years edition in Moss Green with Black Warmenau wheels and a few other options. Delivery is scheduled around 15/05/2026, so no pictures yet.
I hope to find lots of info here and will probably visit this forum quite a lot 

 

After not washing my car for 3 months and saying I'd receramic coat it for 9 months I finally buckled and did it, two stage paint correction and gyeon syncro evo / Gtechniq halo added. Ended up doing the inside as well and thought hmm this looks brand new again.

Only downside my Rupes polisher decided to break...

Morning spoke to the dealership this morning and they have said that it now needs a PD4 update to resolve the issues , well we will se in February lol any one else had this update thanks again 😔

FYI, it’s PV4. I had this update done to my 8.5 a few months ago, not sure that it really did anything as there wasn’t really anything wrong with the car, in my case i think it was actually the dealership scamming the warranty money out of VW, when I picked the car up they had actually had to lie on the paperwork about the reason it was needed, as I understand it the PV4 update is primarily for ID models, although some other things can make it needed on other drivetrains, non start issues on the new Tiguan mainly, this is what they told VW that the issue was with my GTI, which was BS! nothing changed on my car, it still randomly applies the handbrake below 3mph, which was the one thing that isn’t right with my car, and the PV4 update made no difference. ☹️