The official I have ordered/received my new MKVI thread

[darwinian]

just heard from the dealer, due next tues. that'll be 12 days after fergus picked up his. that's correct, t welve

lucky that i'm not in a hurry

[jimjaroo]

Hi all!
Ordered a Golf R on the 26/11/2010 (Wippels VW), was informed that it would be arriving late March, I'm hoping this is not being too optimistic. Have any of you been given a similar delivery time ?

[DAL344]

Dermot just waiting for it to arrive from Patrick's so hopefully picking mine up Monday or Tuesday of next week....

[SilvrFoxX]

Hi all!
Ordered a Golf R on the 26/11/2010 (Wippels VW), was informed that it would be arriving late March, I'm hoping this is not being too optimistic. Have any of you been given a similar delivery time ?

Good luck with that , I ordered in September and was told March..

[changas]

oh yeah!!

it is 1:05 AM and i just got back from my epic trek from Canberra to the city of Sydney back out to my place. A whole 400 km's on my clock now.

i haven't wiped the grin off my face. the only annoying gripe for me at the moment is the exhaust / wastegate sound when your foot comes off throttle.

now, come tomorrow morning, time to give it another clean! i think i am going to be obsessed with my baby for the next couple of months - haha!

[Ryan_R]

Hehe - nice/congrats. I gave mine a wash yesterday - now I can see all the new stone chips I've picked up since last time I washed it

[Corey_R]

Hehe - nice/congrats. I gave mine a wash yesterday - now I can see all the new stone chips I've picked up since last time I washed it

Ventureshield would've stopped that

[Ryan_R]

I know - but the car wasn't perfect when I got it (scratches on wheels, etc), shields are not the cheapest, and I'm planning to hang onto this car for a while, so it's not the end of the world.


I was watching the thrid episode of TopGear USA yesterday and one of the 'cheap-car-challenge' vehicles had a 'car-bra' - this showed a very noticeable colour difference between the nose of the car and the rest of it. Of course, the car would've been aroun 20 years old, but would most of the protections on offer these days end up similarly?

Maybe I should take some photos of my bonnet in case there are any others thinking they don't need to spend the extra money on protection

[BezzyR]

Picked it up this morning

[Corey_R]

I was watching the thrid episode of TopGear USA yesterday and one of the 'cheap-car-challenge' vehicles had a 'car-bra' - this showed a very noticeable colour difference between the nose of the car and the rest of it. Of course, the car would've been aroun 20 years old, but would most of the protections on offer these days end up similarly?

Nah, the old car bras were a leather or vinyl etc, mostly black.
3M PPF and Ventureshield stonegard are designed to be UV transparent, so paint discolours evenly between the uncovered and covered areas. So then it's up to you to protect the car from discolouring using waxes etc. Just make sure to not use yellow or dyed waxes which could discolour the film.