I came close to getting the Rabbit in CFB, but then I remembered buying a green 92 GTI and regretting it a year later. Worked out ok though, bought a Corrado SLC.
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I see what you're saying, but it can go both ways.The fact that I roll in a 1.4lt proves I don't have "Napoleon complex".......
El_bigote_AJ
Autocross Champion
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Highly
same boat… I really wanted cornflower but kept asking myself “doI really want to driving a bright blue golf everyday?” For me the answer was quicky no. 3 years later I still love walking up to my urano gray everytime.
I do kind of kick myself for not getting Urano Grey, but a wave of nostalgia at the last minute steered me to the white. I had a white rabbit GTI in the 80's and the classic contrast and color combo won me over.
Even if 70% of GTI's on the road are white...
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starsmith
Go Kart Champion
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- Shakytown, CA
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- 2019 Urano Grey GTI
urano is a nice under the radar look now because nonmetallic greys exploded in popularity around 2019-20. will probably look dated 10 years from now but whatever. I do mire the hell out of a CFB mk7.5 when I see one
TheJokker
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Semantics...
Yes; it's not an old school LSD but an eLSD. An electronically controlled Limited Slip Differential:
https://www.jcr-leeds.com/how-to-service-front-elsd-full-guide/
El_bigote_AJ
Autocross Champion
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Semantics, yet the vaq is not a differential at all?
It’s a system that emulates what a limited slip diff does but REALITY is the differential in the car is OPEN.
Sure it does the same thing to a degree but to claim is “semantics” is your effort to win an debate by minimizing his reasoning.
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TheJokker
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It's a different kind of differential.Ye
Semantics, yet the vaq is not a differential at all?
golfdave
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Wrong terminology again.....I wrote a "how it works" guide on the VAQ unit which in the first few paragraphs explains what it is & what the makers & the VW workshop books call it...
https://www.golfmk7.com/forums/index.php?threads/how-the-vw-golf-gti-performance-pack-pp-“front-differential-lock”-vaq-works.351185/
QUOTE:-
Borg Warner who are the manufacturers of the unit, call it “Front Cross Differential Technology”, or “FXD”.
ERWIN, which is the official VAG workshop manuals, call it a “Front Differential Lock”, & in the “Self-study guides” they also refer to it as an “Electrohydraulic Front Differential Lock”.
Volkswagen Audi Group HQ in Germany, call it “Vorderachsquersperre” (VAQ), which translated from German to English means “Transversal Front Axle Locking”, or “Front Differential Lock” depending on the translation website used.
END QUOTE
VW marketing should have stated in the sales brochures that the PP gives you an FXD unit....instead they stated "mechanical limited slip differential"....which is misleading & they could be done (in the UK) under the sale of goods act for misrepresentation, as legally "LSD" in mechanical terms is something completely different!....Look how VW are being done legally over dieselgate!!..
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golfdave
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VW ERWIN, official workshop books....
& the VW ERWIN "Self study guides":-
Note that its states:- "It is powered by the output shaft of the gearbox via the differential"...i.e. the existing "open" type differential in the gearbox....
The way it works is to "lock" the front drives shafts & the existing open diff all together/up.....its a front axle/diff lock...& yes there are existing devices in 4x4 called "diff locks"...those purpose is to lock the axle up so that both wheels spin at the same speed especially when one is in the air.....& that is what the FXD/VAQ unit does....to stop the inside unloaded wheel from spinning by locking the the front axle & diff up by varying amounts/percentages...upto 100% lock....to drive the loaded outside wheel..(in simple terms)
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Strange Mud
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no kink shaming.
Gray/Grey (just for you Dave)
I spent 6 years in the Navy and have looked at/painted many things Battleship Gray. That's a hard nope from me. I assume Army people don't do Olive Green
I was on submarines, hull is black rubber, but everything inside is seafoam green. What a terrible color.
