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You won’t go far wrong with an 8.5 GTI/Clubby/R, VW have got the recipe just about right again with the facelift revisions.

The ID.3 GTX would be a great car to have if you get company car benefits especially in Fire & Ice trim. Quick, spacious, RWD fun but horrendous residuals right now, so more of a company car lease prospect than a longer term purchase.
I’m far from anti-EV but agree with Watts in that they’re still in the beta testing stage in some respects. There’s no disguising there’s half a tonne of battery under your bum which is both good (low centre of gravity) and bad (bloody heavy).
The ID.GTI will be interesting (in my eyes) as will the forthcoming Peugeot GTI and the A290 already very much is. Real world quick, hopefully not too heavy and a well controlled chassis being prerequisites to carry off hot hatch status.

The venerable Golf is still the Levi’s/Heinz beans of hot hatches though, and hopefully can still fight its own corner for a good few years yet. 

Unfortunately not, swapped both bulbs and no change

Hi, faulty headlight on a mk7 GTI, it was flickering for a while and now dead.

What doe each of the ballasts do please?

Replaced the rear ballast but it's not resolved it.

Do I need to either code the rear one in for it to work, or should it not need coding so replace the front?

If I replace the front one will that need coding?

If it needs coding, will an OBD11 be ok?

Thanks in advance for any replies, MOT in a week so need to sort

So an update. Over the last week I’ve been playing 4D chess with a neighbouring dealer, a smaller town VW, a nature competitor to my local city VW. Once the alcantara steering wheel option was added to the Edition 50 ( CookieMonsterGTI - added for the Golf R in blue stitching as a new option for Mk8.5 at the same time as Edition 50 going live) and the 1k VW contribution I had already decided I was going to place an order, but I didn’t want to tell them that. Yes, it’s expensive but I don’t swap cars every 3 years. I will own this car likely for next 8-10 years.

I had been trying hard to get a discount on the RPP using my leverage of having a having a long established history with my existing dealer and the benefits for the new dealer if I swapped my business to them. They did try hard, from the sales exec, the sales manager and the head manager all chipped in and have been in communication with me. They did tell me early last week they have confirmation from VW UK it will only be 1000 units imported, which I think VW UK Press still haven’t acknowledged publicly.

So there I was on the weekend with my wallet out seconds away from paying the deposit. The chap had gone to get the card reader and confirm everything with his manager. Whilst waiting I was on the VW website I noticed the 1k contribution was taken away, and I knew then the sale exec would come back to tell me the bad news, and dually he did. It seems VW has pulled the offer nationwide. I didn’t have a leg to stand on as I was ordering, rather than ordered. Those who did order over the 5 days I would like to think VW must honour the deal signed. Seems a bit silly, I still doubt VW UK will sell all 1000 units given the price tag, but taking order have temporarily stopped in a few countries including Germany, so maybe they’re capitalising on that.

1k on a 55k car is loose change in the grand scheme of things, but I felt I needed something as an incentive. To the dealer’s credit they agreed on giving me a dealer fitted option for free that cost about half the 1k, something is better than nothing for my custom.

Dealer order had been generated and I now waiting for the VW order confirmation from them.

The VW plaques are cool, it will make the car defo feel more special. Great share, Paul! Would be cool if they said 5000 units from factory worldwide with plaques too.

The PP comes with the Potenza race tyres, they are mandatory, and free as part of the bundle. Ask them to check again or change dealer, no shortage of availability in the UK at least.

Noticed this is also available on the R now, was this always the case?

Went live on the UK configurator just before the addition to the Ed50 spec, maybe a few days or a week or so before I think.