Bits on your new 7.5?

[CHB100]

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...

Looks like ye olde touch up stick to me, remove one each side at a time, paint/lacquer leaving centre to be re-tightened paint/lacquer centres. Just done 2

[douglaslad]

Could well be that some VW employee came up with the idea to remove the covers to save the company money. Most car companies run suggestion schemes for their employees and depending on how much money the company saves the person that came up with the idea may well get a free car out of it.

[fredgroves]

Quite common though for as time progresses with a design of car, things change - usually to do with cutting costs and nothing to do with making things better.

I remember having two identical cars consecutively in the past and the second one having some serious cost cuttings - things like rear aircon vents, the rear armrest and rear electric windows deleted....

[I wanted a GTi]

I take it that there was a plastic cover over it?

[CHB100]

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...

Looks like ye olde touch up stick to me, remove one each side at a time, paint/lacquer leaving centre to be re-tightened paint/lacquer centres. Just done 2

Voila

[kalimon]

Maybe buy a thousand of these and paint them
http://www.bpfonline.co.uk/search.asp?catid=3013

[Booth11]

Won't be long now before vw offer just the primered car and you have to paint it yourself.  Maybe with the mk8?

[kalimon]

They have.....white silver

[CHB100]

Won't be long now before vw offer just the primered car and you have to paint it yourself.  Maybe with the mk8?

I helped a friend build an S3 Lotus 7, as available without taxes in kit form. Now there's an idea VW, Ikea have done it for years!
The VW Mk 8 IKEA with very few instructions, that most blokes will ignore anyway.

[Mk1Macca]

When we collected the car, the dealer also gave us a VW branded box, which had a presentation tray inside with the spare key, a nice VW keyring (not a crummy dealer type), and underneath a VW travel cup. I was pretty chuffed to get this as the last time I bought new, I had to fight to get a cuppa at hand over!