Mk7 Golf GTI Discussion Thread

[mattaus]

Also, wondering if anyone knows if you can auto open/close windows with the key? Or is there a way to program it to do that?

It's a setting you can configure via the touch screen. It's under vehicle settings. I turned it on literally 3 days ago

Also, in regards to fuel use in sport mode - I have not tested it but 5 minutes in sports mode will tell you that fuel use will be considerably higher*. On the highway it holds 4th gear for a lot longer once you reach 100km/h before changing to 6th for example. Around town it holds lower gears for a lot longer as well to give you that sudden kick when you need it.

* Depends on your interpretation of "considerably". For me it's anything between 0.5L/100km and up.

[Mike_lama]

Awesome, sounds very easy to do then!

I've ordered a manual so I shouldn't have that issue, granted I'm not smashing it the whole time which I won't.

Thank you for such a great response, answered everything really well.

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[GoGTI]

Hi folks,

Had to keep my GTI in the garage for a few months and hooked up a ctek charger to it. Had it on for a week or two and noticed that it never went into maintenance mode.
By ignorance I hooked up the negative terminal to the battery point instead of the bulk head! As soon as I realized what I done I connected it to the bulk head point. But now I'm worried that I did some sort of damage somewhere. The car drives fine from what I can tell and the stop/start system seems to work.

Should I be worried?

Thanks

[mk7wolfr]

I have done a bit of a search (on the forum) and couldn't find what I was after so apologies if this has been covered.

Has anyone done mods on their Mk7 GTI manual exhaust? I'm looking to let just a touch more of the note out. More than happy with performance, and don't want to go overboard as my daughter will start driving it on her L's at the end of the year. Would be keen to know if anyone got it done in Brissy too.

Many thanks

Dan

Hi mate,
Not on a GTI but on my R. Audi have a resonator delete kit for the S3 & R.
It essentially just replaces the centre resonator with a straight pipe. Very stealthy & only a slight increase in"growl".
Any exhaust shop can do the same thing.
There are quite a few threads on the subject & a ton of impressions / opinions.
Like I said, it is for the R, but should be able to have the same thing done on a GTI.

[Dutch77]

Some local news on the 40th GTI: Volkswagen Golf GTI 40 Years price revealed

Not sure I could cope with the look, but 195kW and hopefully the standard Pretorias are a winner.

[Ralfi]

Some local news on the 40th GTI: Volkswagen Golf GTI 40 Years price revealed

Not sure I could cope with the look, but 195kW and hopefully the standard Pretorias are a winner.

Nice. Fair bump in power there. Interested to feel the Overboost effects.

[donweather]

Nice. Fair bump in power there. Interested to feel the Overboost effects.

213kw in a FWD!! No thanks.

[Mattlock]

213kw in a FWD!! No thanks.

Why not? It has the clever diff.

[mattaus]

Yeah never really understood the whole "too much power in a FWD car" thing. You just drive it differently. You don't need to plant it every time.

Granted it makes the car more difficult to drive and depending on your preferences this could make the car less enjoyable. So I do actually get where people may be coming from.

Wow, I just did an about-face in 2 sentences haha.

Personally, I wouldn't complain about the power bump. I'm just not a fan of the looks of the GTI40 at all. Fugly; inside and out.

[Dutch77]

I agree with this.

Not sure what they were thinking, it's not a coherent package - they'd have been better off with a few exterior tweaks and perhaps pick up the lower R ride height. It's only the silver finished Pretorias that save the exterior.. if Oz somehow makes the right call and brings them out I will happily by a second hand set off someone upgrading wheels and stash for my next Dub no problems.