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    What did you do to your mk7 today?

    Took the GTI in for an exterior detail today. Over the winter I got a nice door ding that consisted of both a dent and a paint chip. Went through the dealer for paintless dent repair and a little touch up and while the dent repair came out nicely the paint fix was mediocre and they left some...
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    What did you do to your mk7 today?

    I did! Love it! And yeah, I work for Trek actually, so always keep an eye out for our bikes in the wild. Fair number of GTI fans around here, I'm one of four MK7 GTIs that I know of in the parking lot, a couple Rs, and a few Golfs and Sportwagons as well. Plus a couple MK6 and MK5s.
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    What did you do to your mk7 today?

    Nice Stache! Love those bikes. Car looks great too, nicely done!
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    Stiff shifter in the cold

    So, I know the cold will make a manual shift a little tougher, I’m used to that as I spent the last 9 years driving a stick. But in my 6MT GTI w/ DieselGeek Sigma 6 short shifter I experience a very stiff front/back movement of the shifter. The side to side isn’t too bad, bit when it’s cold...
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    What did you do to your mk7 today?

    Nice wheel choice, I went with the same for my winter setup and like them a lot!
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    Boomba Short Shift Adapter

    I have a very lightly used Boomba short shift adapter. Probably has 400mi on it. Great piece, makes a very noticeable difference in shifter feel that is ridiculously easy to install (10mins max!). Only reason I'm selling is I decided to go all the way and put in a DieselGeek short shifter...
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    What did you do to your mk7 today?

    Speedy is always a good and classic choice, nice watch!
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    What did you do to your mk7 today?

    Great gift, that's a very good looking watch! I’ve been into watches for a long time, love mechanical timepieces. And if you wear it every day no winder needed!
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    Importance of settings position

    I always thought seating position was just about comfort. For me that meant seat back, steering wheel low, and seat angle set to whatever felt good. Then I left it there. Recently though I’ve noticed a little trouble timing my shifts and clutch action, hitting my heel toe down shifts, and...
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    What did you do to your mk7 today?

    Yeah, just watch the DieselGeek video and have patience. It’s really not too bad. I used the technique in that video and it worked it just took like 10x as long as that video shows (guessing that one had been removed before). Still, was only 5 minutes or so gentle pulls like that and it did...
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    APR carbon inlet pipe

    Anybody know if this can work to replace the stock plastic flex piping while using the stock air box or maybe the Autotech top? Sounds like the stock airbox is pretty good with snowgusrd removed and a drop in but I’d like to replace the stock plastic flex pipe just for the hell of it. APR is...
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    Driving with winter tires

    Okay, so this is very possibly a dumb question but I’ve never had winter tires before. I just got some put on (Conti Wintercontact on Sparco Assetto Garra 17s). They feel a little soft, especially in the corners and make a little more road noise, especially under acceleration. But...
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    What did you do to your mk7 today?

    Flaps look good! I too am a fan, put Rally Armors on a month or so ago and really glad to have them heading into my GTIs first winter.
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    What did you do to your mk7 today?

    Okay, had to step away from my desk and go out to the parking lot to have a look. And all 4 rotors look perfectly normal and even. So...no idea why it looks like that in the picture, tried taking more pics to duplicate it and looks normal in all of them. They had just washed the car so maybe...
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    What did you do to your mk7 today?

    Huh...you mean from the wear pattern on the disc? I've never noticed that honestly....will have to look into that.
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    What did you do to your mk7 today?

    Had my winter wheel/tire setup installed today. Sparco Assetto Gara 17s with Conti Wintercontacts. Really happy with the look, decent clearance around the PP calibers for 17s. Handling isn't quite as sharp and there is a bit more road noise, but overall not a bad ride.
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    What did you do to your mk7 today?

    Fabulous bike choice there! ;) I work for Trek and there are a good number of GTIs in the parking lot. Here’s mine along with my yin-yang Sport parking buddy. We’re both usually in roughly the same spot everyday...though today he beat me to the best one.
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    Replacing boot on ebrake/parking brake

    Does anyone know a place for online instructions for replacing the ebrake boot? I've searched but didn't find anything. I recently put in the BFI leather shift boot (http://www.golfmk7.com/forums/showthread.php?t=36721) and I've decided I should probably do the ebrake boot to match. Looking...
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    What did you do to your mk7 today?

    Installed Raceseng Sphereology and BFI leather shift boot.
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    Cold start rattle w/ throttle application

    First real cold start for my ‘17 GTI Sport 6MT today. Got down to 23 degrees by the time I left work tonight. Car started up great and sounded normal right up until I pushed on th gas and then I had a light and fast metallic rattle sound. Once I pulled away I couldn’t hear it as it wasn’t...
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