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Golf mk8 / Re: mk8.5 GTI road noise
« Last post by chrisgolf1 on 15 March 2026, 17:44 »
Carbon GTD - thanks for reporting back and glad that the tyre swap has made the car more liveable with.

I drove a few other cars on Friday; a 320i, C class estate and an A4 Avant and it seems to me that your point about the lack of sound deadening in the GTI 8.5 is relevant; none of those cars had the kind of roar and boomy resonance that the GTI can have on rough roads making it so hard to live with for some. My partners 2024 Polo also has it on rough roads so perhaps it's a problem across the range.
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Golf mk8 / Re: mk8.5 GTI road noise
« Last post by CarbonGTD on 15 March 2026, 16:06 »
I had the new set of Pirelli P ZERO PZ5's fitted to my GTI yesterday.  Went out for a decent run this morning as the weather was good here - yes there is a definite improvement (esp in ride quality plus slight noise drop) - it is early days and this feedback is based on a single 20 mile mixed test drive this morning, but I don't regret paying for the early switch in tyres at all (particularly as there was a 20% off price deal on the PZ5's at the moment).   Will see how the new tyres bed in properly over the next few weeks - given my car is only on standard 18" rims I still think the passive dampers set up is too hard on the 8.5 (and that there has been too much sound deadening stripped out of the car) but it feels like this switch in tyres means I can now enjoy the car (whereas on the noisy hard riding OEM Bridgestones I would find myself getting annoyed at it on just about every trip).
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Golf mk8 / Software glitches? Anyone experienced these
« Last post by Skyered on 15 March 2026, 13:38 »
Golf gti mk8.5 - steering heating set to turn on automatically when outside temperature is cold is not turning on at all even though display is saying it is on. Sat nav not booting up on start up - saying starting and shows blanked out map with twirling disc. Sat nav position also out by 100-200m. Switching car on vague outline of display rev and speedo and infotainment screen showing only background colours and tiles - car would not start. This cleared after 20 seconds. Anyone experienced these glitches? Anyone had these fixed with major software update ps4? Understand needs to be in dealer for 2 days to do this....any advice appreciated, thx
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Golf mk6 / Re: New Head Unit
« Last post by jdoubleu on 15 March 2026, 10:46 »
I looked into this. My car also has Dynaudio and reverse camera. From what I could tell, the RCD330 should work fine with Dynaudio but it does not look like a straight swap for the reverse camera. I gave up on my research last time but might revisit in the future!
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Cars and parts for sale / Looking for a mk6 gti
« Last post by Dazzerman on 14 March 2026, 17:58 »
As title looking for a mk6 gti with dsg close to mid wales as possible. 
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Golf mk8 / Re: GTI Edition 50 order thread
« Last post by Garwen on 12 March 2026, 20:49 »
I thought it looked identical it is why I asked the question
Thank you for explaining better than Vw
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Golf mk8 / Re: GTI Edition 50 order thread
« Last post by JoeGTI on 12 March 2026, 18:24 »
There is no difference aside from the paint colour! I’ve no idea why it’s called out like that in the configurator and clearly VW don’t know either. It’s just another configurator oddity.
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Golf mk8 / Re: GTI Edition 50 order thread
« Last post by Garwen on 12 March 2026, 17:17 »
Bumper option

 What do the two look like  what’s the differences
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Golf mk8 / Re: GTI Clubsport delivery timescale
« Last post by fredgroves on 12 March 2026, 15:42 »
Six months is typical for a GTI tbh (except during covid or during the start of the Ukraine war).

Options can slow it down, but often no difference.
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Golf mk8 / Re: GTI Edition 50 order thread
« Last post by MrEdition50 on 12 March 2026, 13:24 »
So if anyone were to order one now with the performance package they won’t get the black forged alloys and need to choose a different set? Or keep the original red finish ones? Definitely sounds like they are low on stock , they should stop them alloys from being aloud on the clubsports and R till the ED50 is out, being a special edition and wanting it launched in may/june
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