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I bought my Mk7 in 2017 (when 3 years old), and have enjoyed 9 years of motoring except:

Used coolant, VW replaced coolant bottle and I think water pump under warranty after 6 months of ownership, been fine last 8.5 years.
My Drivers mirror glass also fell off on motorway
Alternator went at 60,000
First set of new discs and pads at 50,000
1 x new Battery
Heater matrix blocked, very common on many VW/Audi/Seat, new one installed, car now burning hot!
Drivers door electric window switch broke, replaced myself with OEM
No gearbox problems as auto
Normal Alloy white worm, wheels refurbed
Infotainment was crap, paid to have later VW OEM CarPlay headunit installed, its great

I think that is everything, all in all, I am very impressed with it, and will be keeping it for as long as I can, as it is now being talked about as peak car, ie. no lane assist or other boll0cks no one wants!

Sounds like you have been unlucky, but obviously all second car cars have issues. I wouldn’t touch a 8, better off with a 7.5 IMHO

Bear in mind that the noise levels quoted by tyre manufacturers relates to the noise levels outside the car,  not in the cabin. However, if VW are fitting less - or poorer quality - sound deadening material in their cars in an effort to save a few £££’s IMHO it’s reasonable to assume more road noise would be transmitted into the cabin by tyres with a high dBA rating than those with a low dBA rating.

There are various sound car deadening kits and materials that can be bought for DIY installation. I have no personal experience of these products but installed in the most noise prone areas of the car (e.g. boot floor, spare wheel well, doors) they should improve things.

Quote from: Garwen on 09 March 2026, 01:27

Yes Vw uk any questions I have I email her as she is keeping the case open until we have received our car

So they are basically going to release the cars in bunches across the uk so everyone gets one roughly at the same time? My order went in on the 15th of January and I was hoping that would make me high on the list but now I’m thinking it’s just a lottery,

If the ED50 is a truly limited production run of a specific small number of vehicles, it probably does make sense for VW to build them all in a specific batch - or batches - which would then mean customers receiving their vehicles at roughly the same time.

It’s always been a bit of a mystery how VW schedule specific vehicles for production; seems that ordering early is no guarantee of an early build. Historically, there seems to be no correlation between order date and build date. I can remember a few years ago (think it might have been when the mk7 GTI was launched), a forum member creating a spreadsheet of other forum member’s car order details (e.g. vehicle spec, order dates and confirmed build dates) to try and understand how / when VW allocated specific vehicles for production but it didn’t help - if anything, it created even more confusion / uncertainty.

I dare say a customer’s chosen spec might (will?) also affect when their car’s scheduled to be built as VW are unlikely to allocate cars to specific build weeks until all of the manufacturers of a customer’s chosen options have confirmed availability of those options and / or when they’ll be able to supply them. Assuming this to be so, then ‘fully loaded’ cars might not be scheduled for production as soon as standard spec cars due to the more complex supply chain (more manufacturers / suppliers in the supply chain increases the risk that there could be delays if some manufacturers have production or supply issues themselves).

Has anyone else been contacted regarding anything needing changed?

Could be worth getting the alignment checking too, could the noise be the rears saw toothing?