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Offline Exonian

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What is your favourite mk6 addition?
« on: 20 October 2011, 17:40 »
Here goes, another pointless bit of fun with no wrong or right answers as it is a very personal thing.

We all know what a standard car comes with (and if we don't go look it up on VW UK website) and most of us on here have either specced an option or made a modification that we particularly like and maybe we've got one that we don't really like. Or if like me you bought a second hand one what did it come with that you'd not have specced?

So, open to all mk6 Golf owners, what addition to your car over and above what it came with as a bog standard model from the VW price list is your best spent £££ $$$ €€€ and what extra or modification to your car could you happily live without?

My favourite: Has to be my Sprint Booster. I bought this to take out the dead bit of accelerator pedal travel on my previous mapped car so the boost didn't cut in too fiercely causing the dump valve to stuggle and make the car a bit jerky. Now running it on a standard car and it makes it so much more zippy. Expensive for what it is but it just works!

Least favourite: The leather. Would much rather have the cloth. Nothing against leather interiors (and I know a few people that ''can't live without it'') but the poor animals it came off would have appreciated the hide far more than I do.
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Re: What is your favourite mk6 addition?
« Reply #1 on: 20 October 2011, 17:44 »
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Offline Mr_F

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Re: What is your favourite mk6 addition?
« Reply #2 on: 20 October 2011, 18:10 »
Favourite: Bendy Xenons!!!!!  :laugh:
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Re: What is your favourite mk6 addition?
« Reply #3 on: 20 October 2011, 18:39 »
Mine would have to be the Stage 2 tune, car pulls like a beast. Only downside is its given me the bug for more! So i've started saving for the stage 3 BT kit.

My least favorite is the free mod someone in the parking lot at work gave me; a nice dent on the bumper. (getting it fixed monday, thankfully.)
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Re: What is your favourite mk6 addition?
« Reply #4 on: 20 October 2011, 19:20 »

Favourite: Bendy Xenons!!!!! 


Me too; love the xenons. First car I've had with them and now wouldn't want to be without them!
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Re: What is your favourite mk6 addition?
« Reply #5 on: 20 October 2011, 19:25 »
I love the xenons and the Bluetooth integration with the RNS 510. Both brilliant to have.

Not sure what I could live without. I guess the MDI has become a bit pointless when you have Bluetooth audio and the HD in the RNS.
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Offline Buck

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Re: What is your favourite mk6 addition?
« Reply #6 on: 20 October 2011, 19:36 »
I love the xenons and the Bluetooth integration with the RNS 510. Both brilliant to have.

Not sure what I could live without. I guess the MDI has become a bit pointless when you have Bluetooth audio and the HD in the RNS.

Joe's hit the nail on the head for me

Love the RNS510 both in looks and function and tbh never use my iPod/midi connection now as the HDD and Bluetooth do it all.

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Re: What is your favourite mk6 addition?
« Reply #7 on: 20 October 2011, 20:02 »
Likes:
Equal firsts: ACC and my sound system and then everything else.

Dislike:
Only one: Halogens

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Re: What is your favourite mk6 addition?
« Reply #8 on: 20 October 2011, 20:09 »
DSG and my Sun roof, also park assist  :grin:

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Re: What is your favourite mk6 addition?
« Reply #9 on: 20 October 2011, 20:59 »
Rear camera, although the steering wheel popped into my mind first. :shocked:

If I re-specced I'd have a 'moonroof' as the spetics might say...
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