I think a quiet reminder might not be out of order. Sometimes the part can be in but for whatever reason notifying the customer gets overlooked. It happens.
I’m very much like yourself as regards to being precious about the TCR.
The Ed40 was bought as an ornament and treated like royalty as I had a commuter car to do the daily grind stuff. The TCR was bought as a commuter car and boy has it had to earn its keep this winter.
I managed to get through two and a half years with just two microscopic paint chips on the front of the Ed40 but the poor TCR has had a few sizeable chips already and has literally been cleaned twice in four and a half months (nearly 4K miles). I blame the DSG for turning me into a bone idle git