MK8 latest info

[Shooey]

When can you actually order the GTI and get actual costs/figures rather than ‘a place on the allocation list’?

Genuinely getting bored of waiting now.....

There are new S3’s available already, I would order one but I have an S4 so feels a bit pointless, otherwise M135i is calling & I could take delivery this week.

[fredgroves]

I'm told vwfs should be up and running this week... But still not got my quote yet.

[Guzzle]

It's like VW's marketing team didn't tell VW Financial Services it was being launched. Still no finance quotes after 2 weeks!

Once again, utterly urine poor Golf GTi launch by VW.

[ramrod]

ive been told by a vw mastertech that the mk8 GTi ecu will be "locked" so the only people that can code, read codes etc will be VW, apparently they dont want anyone but VW techs to have a tinker now

[fredgroves]

I thought that went against EU law actually.... anti-competition.... you can't have your car serviced by a non-VW dealer.

Interesting to see if the rumour about it being locked is true.

[mcmaddy]

You won't be able to use vcds, obd11 etc to do anything. It's probably got more to do with online activation than anything else.

[fredgroves]

https://ec.europa.eu/growth/sectors/automotive/technical-harmonisation/vehicle-repair-maintenance_en

[mcmaddy]

You can get your car serviced anywhere it's the plugging in of devices like vagcom, OBD11 etc that will be locked.

[Carbon VW]

well not anywhere if the above is the case. Rear brake pads as we all know requires VCDS or similar to retract the piston so it would be crazy if theyve locked joe soap out of doing these simple maintenance tasks. Also it would be a right pain if you cant easily reset the service interval counter via the dash as in the MK7.

[Wide]

Someone found what´s up with the front Calipers?! . Same but no GTI badge?, or....