« Reply #6868 on: 27 June 2017, 13:44 »
Today, well yesterday technically as it's after midnight, I drove my GTI Ed40 for the first time without the radio on. I found that the car has several minor rattles at town speeds which I'd not previously noticed.
Rather than let a dealer near it I'll always drive with the radio on in future! 
I've also noticed a slightly dull patch in the paint on the A pillar on the driver's side. I'm not letting a dealer near that either 
On a more positive note the exhaust sounded great!
Sounds like it's time for a change.......and you have owned it for a good while now 
Yeah, it's getting that way
I'm a changed man I'll have you know!
Today, well yesterday technically as it's after midnight, I drove my GTI Ed40 for the first time without the radio on. I found that the car has several minor rattles at town speeds which I'd not previously noticed.
Rather than let a dealer near it I'll always drive with the radio on in future!
I've also noticed a slightly dull patch in the paint on the A pillar on the driver's side. I'm not letting a dealer near that either
On a more positive note the exhaust sounded great!
Sounds like it's time for a change.......and you have owned it for a good while now.
It's a VW; it's bound to have a few minor rattles . As for the dull paint area on the A pillar; probably someone wiped some dead insects or bird poo off over-enthusiastically with a dry cloth. It should polish off fine though.
I suspect the dull paint is something to do with something gone wrong when the YTS kid did the black roof in the factory.
Today, well yesterday technically as it's after midnight, I drove my GTI Ed40 for the first time without the radio on. I found that the car has several minor rattles at town speeds which I'd not previously noticed.
Rather than let a dealer near it I'll always drive with the radio on in future!
I've also noticed a slightly dull patch in the paint on the A pillar on the driver's side. I'm not letting a dealer near that either
On a more positive note the exhaust sounded great!
As STGTD says, rattles are standard spec on vw's, you, with your vast vw ownership credentials, of all people should know that Mr Ex! That's why car radios are designed to initiate with the ignition, to instantaneously drown out the alternative cabin disco! Time to get the lube and felt padding out. Not as peverse as it may sound! And polish your A pillar, and might as well do the B Pillars whilst you're at it, as they swirl just by BEING!
Believe it or not, none of my other mk7's rattled in the slightest.
This one does though.
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