early 2011 GTI golf or early 2012 gti golf

[G1ROSS1]

Been searching the net for the specs of the above cars with very little luck. Will be buying one or the other within then next week and need to decide on which. A few question I need answered.

1. Did early 2011 gti's come with led front and rear led lights? (also noticed a few pictures with only one side working, is this a common problem?)
2. Do early 2012 golfs have led front or rear lights?
3. What's the standard radio that came with each car? worth upgrading to the sat nav version?
4. black or white?

[falconmick]

Try this   http://www.volkswagen.co.uk/used/old-brochure

[Booth11]

Hi, you're better off posting in the mk6 section but hopefully this info from a previous thread answers your rear LED's question and also has info relevant to retrofitting rear LED's.

Most 10 plate cars have the older non LED lights. 60 plate has the rear LED lights.
Late 09 and 59 and 10 plate cars have the correct software for the lights.
Very first 09 cars need a control unit upgade.
Cost was about £400 not sure if its cheaper now for all 4 rear lights and adaptors.

So 60 plate onwards have rear LED's.

Front LED's?  assume you mean bi-Xenons - they were never standard on mk6 gti's and were an optional extra that had to be specced regardless of year (have only become standard with the mk7's).  Later mk6 models specced with xenons also had the addition of the fairy light type daytime running lights.

I believe the mk6 standard stereo was the RCD310, with optonal extras/upgrades being the RCD510 and the nav unit RNS310 or RNS510.

[G1ROSS1]

Thanks for the replies. Noticed you've a black gti booth11. People are telling me to stay away from black as you can see every mark, stone chip etc. Are they really that bad?

[Pld118]

IMO,

Any black or very dark coloured car will show up chips, scratches and swirl marks unless you have a lot of time to clean and mollycoddle it; but all cars fall prey to the rigours of cosmetic wear and tear.  It doesn't matter what make or model of black car you have, that's probably just the reality.  You can obviously minimise aesthetic imperfections by taking care and by using tried and tested cleaning methods (detailing world uk is probably the best place on the internet for such advice).

White appears to be a very popular and saleable GTi colour.  The salesman who recently sold me a carbon grey GTi told me that well spec'd good condition used GTi's, particularly white ones, fly off the forecourt and he said a recent white one was with them only 3 days.

Black always looks great when clean, maybe moreso in the wet weather and remains a highly popular colour, especially on prestige and quality performance cars.

My tuppence worth 

[charlie]

If you want a black car check booths pics of hers they do look very nice you just got to keep it clean like all cars 

[Booth11]

Thanks for the replies. Noticed you've a black gti booth11. People are telling me to stay away from black as you can see every mark, stone chip etc. Are they really that bad?

Yes, they are really that bad, but I love 'em 

Whilst cars of every colour get swirls, marks, chips etc, it's true that these are much more visible on black and that puts a lot of people off.  Should you avoid black? Depends whether you want a low maintenance colour or not.  If you do then forget it and choose a more forgiving colour.  That said, a well cared for black car can look truly stunning, but it takes time, effort and a reasonable amount of detailing know-how to keep them looking their best.  For me cleaning and detailing is something of a hobby, so not a burden.  Almost all my cars have been black, so I know no better and must be a sucker for punishment!

I've been quite lucky with stone chips, only got one noticeable one on the rear wing and couple of minuscule ones on the front bumper.

If you're buying a used car, depending on the condition of the paintwork, it may require some correction work to get it looking good, though this is true of any colour.

Have you found a car yet?  What spec are you looking for?

[RedHP]

Been searching the net for the specs of the above cars with very little luck. Will be buying one or the other within then next week and need to decide on which. A few question I need answered.

1. Did early 2011 gti's come with led front and rear led lights? (also noticed a few pictures with only one side working, is this a common problem?)
2. Do early 2012 golfs have led front or rear lights?
3. What's the standard radio that came with each car? worth upgrading to the sat nav version?
4. black or white?

1 & 2. My GiT is Aug 10 and came with rear LED's. IIRC the front LED's come with Bi-Xenon spec
3. Not sure about standard model on GiT, but I upgraded to RNS510 with nav (colour/touchscreen etc), better in my opinion, but some may suggest saving the cash and using a TomTom etc, up to you
4. Mine is white, but colour is down to personal choice

Good luck

Red

[G1ROSS1]

Flying to England to look at one towards the end of the week. early 2012 - black with everything i'd like except the 510 satnav head unit and maybe reverse camera.
Plan will be to get it home, detailed by a professional then enjoy. Work away a lot so I can't see black being to big  of a problem. Will be looking an indoor car cover, suggestions?

Plus anything I should be looking out for when viewing the car?

[Ed35 chunk]

Ed35s come with led rear and front and leather  more tuneable and better looking
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