What have you bought for your Mk8?

[Exonian]

Always had a big soft spot for BBS SR’s. 

[SRGTD]

They're easy to clean, colour hides the brake dust, they're not diamond cut (not a fan anymore), and they have an OEM look (in my opinion).  Width is 8J and an ET45 offset.

@Bluto; BBS SR’s in Himalaya Grey are a great choice IMHO. I agree 100% with your points above and would add that the matt grey painted finish should be highly durable - no white worm corrosion either .

I dislike diamond cut alloys with a passion - poor durability of finish, susceptible to white worm corrosion, easily damaged by tyre fitters, more expensive to refurbish than painted / powder coated alloys and can’t be refurbished more than twice. Given the choice of painted / powder coated or diamond cut, I’d go for the former every time.

[Ceefeesh]

I bought new Christmas tree baubles for my tree. Oops sorry! They are Borbet centre caps.  I had thought of VW dynamic GTI centre caps for my Borbet wheels but I have tried genuine VW centre caps for 18 and 19” wheels and they don’t fit. The Borbet spokes stop them snapping into place. Instead, I bought these great quality original Borbet centres with some red in them to pick up on the GTI red accent. They’re not dynamic but I saved £92 over the VW option.

[SRGTD]

I bought new Christmas tree baubles for my tree. Oops sorry! They are Borbet centre caps.  I had thought of VW dynamic GTI centre caps for my Borbet wheels but I have tried genuine VW centre caps for 18 and 19” wheels and they don’t fit. The Borbet spokes stop them snapping into place. Instead, I bought these great quality original Borbet centres with some red in them to pick up on the GTI red accent. They’re not dynamic but I saved £92 over the VW option.

I also couldn’t find VW centre caps for my aftermarket alloys, although I wasn’t that bothered - they’re not VW alloys and I’m not pretending that they are so the centre caps that came with the alloys do the job just fine.

I personally would never buy VW dynamic centre caps as they seem very expensive to me for what they are, but maybe I’m just a tightwad .

I think your Borbet centre caps look fine. If you ever did want to convert them to VW, you could always consider getting some domed VW emblem overlay stickers, although I’m not sure if anyone is making these in the latest font style VW is using for their logo (there are plenty available in the previous style logo in various sizes).

[Ceefeesh]

I have a selection of Mk 7.5 font stickers of VW and GTI logos that I could use. There are some new style VW stickers too. I have yet to see any Mk8 GTI font which is why the dynamic VW GTI centres were appealing but I don't think they would fit. They are also £120 which is not far off the cost of one wheel. Mad!

[Ceefeesh]

Not exactly bought for my car but laser etched coasters with images of golfs, a Mk 1, 7.5 and 8, I own or have owned which I have been given as a present. 

[simonwhite2000]

Yes, they’re the R paddles. No, you only need to remove the airbag (basically the centre piece of the wheel where you press the horn). This pops off quite easily, you just need to release 3 clips on the back of the wheel. Once you’ve that off you need to gently prise off the silver trim, it’s just clipped in. Once that’s off, the existing paddles are easily removed by undoing a Torx screw for each one and disconnecting them. The new paddles fit in exactly the same way.

Oh, other thing we did is remove the fuse for the horn. It kept going off and nearly giving us heart attacks / temporary deafness when removing the airbag!

Everything went back together 100% and no dash errors. I’d say it took about 20-25 mins.

Volkswizard has a video on it.

About to fit these - where is the fuse for the horn?

[JoeGTI]

Yes, they’re the R paddles. No, you only need to remove the airbag (basically the centre piece of the wheel where you press the horn). This pops off quite easily, you just need to release 3 clips on the back of the wheel. Once you’ve that off you need to gently prise off the silver trim, it’s just clipped in. Once that’s off, the existing paddles are easily removed by undoing a Torx screw for each one and disconnecting them. The new paddles fit in exactly the same way.

Oh, other thing we did is remove the fuse for the horn. It kept going off and nearly giving us heart attacks / temporary deafness when removing the airbag!

Everything went back together 100% and no dash errors. I’d say it took about 20-25 mins.

Volkswizard has a video on it.

About to fit these - where is the fuse for the horn?

Lift the bonnet and there’s a fuse box to the right side. It’s one of those, I’m fairly sure the manual says which one it is.

[simonwhite2000]

Yes, they’re the R paddles. No, you only need to remove the airbag (basically the centre piece of the wheel where you press the horn). This pops off quite easily, you just need to release 3 clips on the back of the wheel. Once you’ve that off you need to gently prise off the silver trim, it’s just clipped in. Once that’s off, the existing paddles are easily removed by undoing a Torx screw for each one and disconnecting them. The new paddles fit in exactly the same way.

Oh, other thing we did is remove the fuse for the horn. It kept going off and nearly giving us heart attacks / temporary deafness when removing the airbag!

Everything went back together 100% and no dash errors. I’d say it took about 20-25 mins.

Volkswizard has a video on it.

About to fit these - where is the fuse for the horn?

Lift the bonnet and there’s a fuse box to the right side. It’s one of those, I’m fairly sure the manual says which one it is.

Brilliant, thank you

[Kenis]

How did you get on? Did mine Sunday (didn’t take the horn fuse out). Pictures on here helped a lot. Couldn’t have don’t it without little densits type mirror.

Only issue I had is when I removed the cowling on top I pushed too hard and pulled the fabric out of its fastening behind the dash - should have pushed it up with the wheel pushed in, then pulled out.

All seem to work though!