Exhaust dent feature

[GTI_Ant]

Just received my CS after almost 24 months wait everything seems fine however when I had a look underneath I noticed this dent in the exhaust near the rear suspension which I initially thought might be some form of transport damage.  I was worried that this could impede the exhaust flow but it seems that another GTI at the dealership also had this feature (the sent a photo that shows it) so I’m guessing they have to manually reshape the pipe to get it to fit.  Has anyone else noticed this?  It seems odd to have to make a controlled bend in the pipe in production.

[fredgroves]

Likely to be a design feature to make the gas flow through the exhaust do what they want it to do...

[davo245]

Looks like damage to me can't think of any reason why that would be a design feature best get it reported to dealer before they blame you for it.

[GTI_Ant]

Looks like damage to me can't think of any reason why that would be a design feature best get it reported to dealer before they blame you for it.

I did report it to the dealer straight away.  They checked another GTi and it has the same “feature”!

[Carlosfandango]

Looks like damage to me can't think of any reason why that would be a design feature best get it reported to dealer before they blame you for it.

I did report it to the dealer straight away.  They checked another GTi and it has the same “feature”!

But do they all have that ‘feature’? It could well be a feature of that particular dealership, or maybe the transport they use!

[GTI_Ant]

Looks like damage to me can't think of any reason why that would be a design feature best get it reported to dealer before they blame you for it.

I did report it to the dealer straight away.  They checked another GTi and it has the same “feature”!

But do they all have that ‘feature’? It could well be a feature of that particular dealership, or maybe the transport they use!

Yes that’s what I’m trying to ascertain!  It would be good to know if this is present on all of these cars or just recent ones or whatever.

[Carlosfandango]

I’ll have a look at mine in the morning, not a CS, but worth a look anyway, I do seem to remember the mk7 having a slightly flattened pipe at near that point, but yours just looks like a ding.

[Carlosfandango]

I swapped my wheels front to back today, and I can confirm, that my GTI does not have this ‘feature’, to be honest it looks like a ding, doesn’t look at all like it should be there, and indeed, if you think about it’s location, there is no rational reason why it would be there from factory.

[GTI_Ant]

I swapped my wheels front to back today, and I can confirm, that my GTI does not have this ‘feature’, to be honest it looks like a ding, doesn’t look at all like it should be there, and indeed, if you think about it’s location, there is no rational reason why it would be there from factory.

Thank you so much for looking.  It's the bend downstream from you, the one where your pipe changes colour, and I can just about see a flattened part of the pipe?

Cheers

[willni]

The only explanation I can think of with any possible rational for this is that they required more back pressure from the exhaust system, hence the 'dent' and could be there for emission purposes? But surely it's too far back to have any impact on the cat?