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Offline Exonian

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Re: Ere John, gotta new motor?
« Reply #10 on: 31 May 2015, 19:43 »
Looking good Snooze!

The wheels are ridiculously too far into the arches on a MK7, quite a few on here running spacers. I had aftermarket wheels on mine which filled the arches better but have just switched back to standard and am not liking what I see!
10-12mm front and 15-20 rear recommended.


The soundaktor is noisiest on sport but can be switched down or off via VCDS or a dealer.

And lastly - the first thing I did with my mk7 was fit a pedal box (DTUK) as the throttle delay is horrendous. Best money I spent on the car.

Cheers Ex.

Glad I'm not the only one who thinks spacers are needed! I'll do a post search. If I got say 10mm spacers would I need longer bokts? You'll have to let me know what spacers u end up getting.

Trip to the stealers it is!

Ah yes I've seen mention of pedal boxes before. How much did that set you back?

You'll definitely need longer bolts with spacers, many of the decent kits will come with good quality longer bolts.
I think GrahamFR runs spacers from memory, he's not the only one though.
Aitchi has an ECS spacer kit too.
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Offline Juicetin

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Re: Ere John, gotta new motor?
« Reply #11 on: 31 May 2015, 19:43 »
Nice car. I've just had my sound actuator turned down to 25% and its great. Its almost nonexistent in normal driving but has a nice deep growl on full throttle.

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Re: Ere John, gotta new motor?
« Reply #12 on: 31 May 2015, 19:44 »
Very nice indeed. I thought the GTi badges on the front and back were now all red or do they still do the chrome ones as well.
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Re: Ere John, gotta new motor?
« Reply #13 on: 31 May 2015, 19:46 »
Awesome cheers booth! How did u manage that?!
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Re: Ere John, gotta new motor?
« Reply #14 on: 31 May 2015, 19:46 »
Red badges on the performance pack, silver on the regular GTI.
I'm also a tad disappointed in the throttle response after my mk5 GTI.

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Re: Ere John, gotta new motor?
« Reply #15 on: 31 May 2015, 19:49 »
Sounds like a pedal box group buy coming up!  :cool:
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Re: Ere John, gotta new motor?
« Reply #16 on: 31 May 2015, 20:08 »
Best colour combination but then again id be biased..... :wink:







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Re: Ere John, gotta new motor?
« Reply #17 on: 31 May 2015, 20:30 »
Best colour combination but then again id be biased..... :wink:









Ha ha! Great pics charv, you got all the best angles.
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Re: Ere John, gotta new motor?
« Reply #18 on: 31 May 2015, 20:34 »
Ha ha! Great pics charv, you got all the best angles.
Got my photographer of a sister to thank for that!!
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Re: Ere John, gotta new motor?
« Reply #19 on: 31 May 2015, 21:05 »
Awesome cheers booth! How did u manage that?!

Hi Snooze

It's easier to show you with help of screenshots.  In overall gallery view you'll see 3 lines symbol on each thumbnail, click or touch the symbol and a mini menu comes up, choose 'share links' (pic1) and the 'share the photo' box comes up (pic2).  In the right hand pane, last box down - IMG, copy and paste that code into your post and voila!   :smiley:

There maybe a quicker way of doing it but as I don't use Photobucket I don't know.  They are forever changing these hosting accounts interface so it's easy to forget.  I use Flickr and they changed that and it's a right faff now to get the code required for forum sharing  :rolleyes:

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