What have you done to your mk8 today?

[simonwhite2000]

Started to get the car ready for its departure ie removing the OEM clear rear lights. 
9,400 miles since delivery on 24th Oct 2022 so a little underused it's probably fair to say. Lease is until Oct '25 but dipping out early.
Will list some things in the for sale section including the OEM clear rear clusters.

How come you are exiting? What are you getting next?

Never did take to the car and the exit fee % has been halved by Arval so given ill escape a full service cost it seems a'relatively' logical decision. No firm decision made but looking at an LCI 340i this week. Nearly went for an A6 but missed the boat on the cheap lease offer

[fredgroves]

Bit of a contrast between a GTI and a 340i or A6....  price if nothing else!

[simonwhite2000]

Finally got round to taking off the OEM clear light clusters ahead of the car being collected. Now the red ones are back on its definitely the best upgrade I did whilst having the car.

[Guzzle]

Finally got round to taking off the OEM clear light clusters ahead of the car being collected. Now the red ones are back on its definitely the best upgrade I did whilst having the car.

Those look belting 

[simonwhite2000]

I fitted the R paddles to my Mk8. The steering wheel doesn’t need to come off but the airbag does need to come out. The only downside was the airbag warning light came on, even though I had disconnected the battery beforehand. @willni switched it off with VCDS. No other problems caused. The R paddles looked and felt oem. I thought they were a good job.



The R paddles cost circa £150 from Czechia. By the way I think the Leyo paddles look good too. 👍

I have a set of these VW OEM R paddles unused and boxed if anyone is interested drop me a DM

[Aidey]

Got in this morning to this so i hope it does not brick the system 

[fredgroves]

No idea what that is!

[DrivenToDistraction]

Today I took delivery of a space saver spare wheel bought on EBay to replace the tins of gunk my Clubsport came with. Over the years I’ve been fortunate with punctures. However I’ve had to deal with a couple of occasions when my wife had damaged a tyre and no amount of gunk injected into the tyre would have saved the day.

That's interesting because I'm pretty sure you can't select the space saver spare wheel when configuring a new CS. No idea why, I assumed it was a configurator glitch. I am with you on the ridiculous gunk that new cars now come supplied with. I don't think you want to messing with that stuff on a dark road late at night. I will be ordering the spare wheel kit for my recently purchased (used) 8.5 GTI.

[Aidey]

No idea what that is!

No idea , but its downloading now, Soooooo slow tho ...

[Aidey]

Well not sure if anythings different but its now on version 1985 ...


A quick search and i found this
“This software update (SW 1985) brings the following improvements to the infotainment system:
• Improvements to the stability and performance of the entire system.

• Stabilization and improvement (if available) of:
- Navigation
- App-Connect
- Streaming and web radio
- Bluetooth and WLAN connection

• Optimization of IT security

• Improvement of graphical representations in infotainment.”