Alloy / metal dead pedal

[Beebopper]

I just remembered, there’s a fitting guide in the mk7 section:
https://www.golfgtiforum.co.uk/index.php?topic=276795.0

Brilliant thanks 

[Beebopper]

I picked up a dead pedal for £15 on eBay, said it was from China but arrived in less than a week. 5mins to fit today, looks much better than the plastic pedal.

[Carlosfandango]

I picked up a dead pedal for £15 on eBay, said it was from China but arrived in less than a week. 5mins to fit today, looks much better than the plastic pedal.

The only thing with the dead pedals like yours that are easily available, is that they are for manual transmission cars, this is why they differ in shape to the one you took off, DSG dead pedals are available, but most appear to be an aluminium plate riveted to the OEM black dead pedal, I bought one like yours in the past and fitted it to a previous GTI which was fine, I bought another to fit to my current 8.5, but because of the shape difference I never fitted it, for most it won’t matter, but for me, I didn’t like that it was wrong.

[Beebopper]

The only thing with the dead pedals like yours that are easily available, is that they are for manual transmission cars, this is why they differ in shape to the one you took off, DSG dead pedals are available, but most appear to be an aluminium plate riveted to the OEM black dead pedal, I bought one like yours in the past and fitted it to a previous GTI which was fine, I bought another to fit to my current 8.5, but because of the shape difference I never fitted it, for most it won’t matter, but for me, I didn’t like that it was wrong.

Yes I couldn’t find something like this that was for DSG, I looked at the alloy plates that stick onto the existing dead pedal, but didn’t like that idea or the look of them. This is the best option in my opinion that looks better than the plastic pedal. To the untrained eyes, this looks factory, we of course know different, all good if this doesn’t bother you. If a decent DSG one pops up, I might change as it’s a 5min job, post one up here if you find one, I’ll do the same