Exiwolfman
Passed Driver's Ed
Washed it finally ..bloody winter sucks
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What did you do to your mk7 today?
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southpawboston
Drag Racing Champion
- Location
- Somerville, MA
Swapped in a lockable glove compartment latch, and had the lock cylinder re-keyed to my car's key.
gti330ex
Go Kart Newbie
- Location
- Chicagoland
Nice photo. So that's what my 2dr looks like on snow, when clean. I like it!Washed it finally ..bloody winter sucks
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anotero
Autocross Champion
- Location
- Hither and thither
- Car(s)
- Mk7 GTI
How how how and where? Please share!Swapped in a lockable glove compartment latch, and had the lock cylinder re-keyed to my car's key.
southpawboston
Drag Racing Champion
- Location
- Somerville, MA
I found a local locksmith who did it for $20. You can buy the wafer kits on ebay for about $45 shipped, which I almost did, before finding a locksmith who could do it cheaper. I called at least 10 places, very few can do VW, including VW dealers, apparently.
My locking latch came with the felt lined glovebox that I scored on eBay for cheap, I will wait for warmer weather before swapping those out. I just needed a quick winter Saturday project so I did just the lock.
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Huntermike
Guest
Today I replaced the DOT4 fluid I replaced this fall with DOT4-LV. Much improved clutch feel in the bitter cold arctic blast. -24F this morning.
Swapped in a lockable glove compartment latch, and had the lock cylinder re-keyed to my car's key.
only problem is that thieves will destroy your glove box/lock and steal stuff inside, and now you have to pay for the replacement of glove box.
anotero
Autocross Champion
- Location
- Hither and thither
- Car(s)
- Mk7 GTI
Do you know if there's a shortcut to pulling the glovebox lid out? According to the service manual, it's a pain in the ass.
southpawboston
Drag Racing Champion
- Location
- Somerville, MA
This is generally true. My wife likes being able to lock her phone in there sometimes during the day when she's going for a run, and that's only when the car is parked in daylight where there are lots of people around. All other times the glovebox is kept unlocked. The car also has the OEM alarm which will get triggered.
Yeah, royal pain. I'm going to try to figure out how to pull the hinge pins without pulling the whole box.
Not a damn thing. Again. I did all my mods in a 75 day span and that was 3 months ago. I can't think of anything else to do that isn't at least sort of pointless and now there's cobwebs on my tools. I had been heading full steam towards stage 2 with clutch, but moditis has seemingly worn off. Help me internet.
Diggs24
Autocross Champion
- Location
- de plains! de plains!
- Car(s)
- 2015 GTI
big turbo
anotero
Autocross Champion
- Location
- Hither and thither
- Car(s)
- Mk7 GTI
Yep. I would like to line the lid, which holds all the crap in the glovebox, with felt. I can of course do it without detaching the lid, but that would make the process very uncomfortable.
anotero
Autocross Champion
- Location
- Hither and thither
- Car(s)
- Mk7 GTI
Nice
anotero
Autocross Champion
- Location
- Hither and thither
- Car(s)
- Mk7 GTI
Does your wife drive a car? You can mod that until you feel like modding your car again. I keep thinking what I would like to add to my wife's Beetle.