Bits on your new 7.5?

[Mk1Macca]

Silly questions for anyone else that's got a new 7.5...

The rear seat isofix points, did you get plastic covers for them? My last GTD had covers, as did the 1.6 TDi that we had. The new GTi doesn't.

Did you get a plastic boot liner and safety kit (2 x high vis, first aid kit, triangle), or, as I suspect, we just got lucky and the dealer put them in by accident?

[Shearer9]

Silly questions for anyone else that's got a new 7.5...

The rear seat isofix points, did you get plastic covers for them? My last GTD had covers, as did the 1.6 TDi that we had. The new GTi doesn't.

Did you get a plastic boot liner and safety kit (2 x high vis, first aid kit, triangle), or, as I suspect, we just got lucky and the dealer put them in by accident?

I had same questions after picking up mine a couple of months ago.

There is no isofix plastic covers on the rear seats in the 7.5, at least on UK version. They have painted the bars red in the GTI though. (Nice touch).

I found the accessories pack was depending on what dealer I used. My last 2 golfs haven't had them.

[JoeGTI]

That's odd!
The plastic covers on the isofix points are definitely there on any MK7 I've been in.
I sat into a couple of 7.5's in showrooms and the first thing I noticed when opening the drivers door were the large and obvious exposed metal bolts on the inner door frame that hold on the door mirror. Those bolts are also covered by a black plastic cover on the MK7.
Sounds like it's yet more cheeky cost shaving by VW.

[fredgroves]

Wasn't there something else they had previously chopped on latter Mk7's?

Some other sort of plastic cover... was it rear seat hinges or something?

Anyway it was something which I thought "must remember to remove those from my Mk7 when it goes back to reuse".... and then forgot.

[I wanted a GTi]

Wasn't there something else they had previously chopped on latter Mk7's?

Some other sort of plastic cover... was it rear seat hinges or something?

Anyway it was something which I thought "must remember to remove those from my Mk7 when it goes back to reuse".... and then forgot.

Yeah a bit of plastic to cover the rear seat mount point.

[Sootchucker]

Might have been me. It's the first thing I noticed when I picked up my May 2016 GTD in comparison to the outgoing September 2013 GTD. Deffo cost cutting by VW following the Dieselgate debacle.

[JoeGTI]

Might have been me. It's the first thing I noticed when I picked up my May 2016 GTD in comparison to the outgoing September 2013 GTD. Deffo cost cutting by VW following the Dieselgate debacle.

That's the missing cover I mentioned above! I thought it looked crap when I sat into a new MK7.5, so it sounds like they dropped that cover quite a while ago? My August 2015 R has that cover over those bolts so it must have been deleted in 2016 at some point... You'd wonder what the hell they save by deleting little things like that. Pennies per car surely? I guess it all adds up if you're shifting thousands of them.

[Briggsy]

Exactly that, when you're producing 7 digit volume of cars and can cost cut things like that it adds up real fast, allows the money to be spent elsewhere, it just depends on what they decide that elsewhere to be.

[fredgroves]

I think those changes came with the MY17 swapover ~May 2016

[maxie]

Might have been me. It's the first thing I noticed when I picked up my May 2016 GTD in comparison to the outgoing September 2013 GTD. Deffo cost cutting by VW following the Dieselgate debacle.

That's the missing cover I mentioned above! I thought it looked crap when I sat into a new MK7.5, so it sounds like they dropped that cover quite a while ago? My August 2015 R has that cover over those bolts so it must have been deleted in 2016 at some point... You'd wonder what the hell they save by deleting little things like that. Pennies per car surely? I guess it all adds up if you're shifting thousands of them.

they could at least color code the screws. or use black ones as the silver just makes it look cheap...