What did you do to your mk7 today?

[StealthGTI]

I had a busy weekend. First, I unloaded 22 bags of Sakrete from my stranded cargo trailer and put it into my baby trailer to be returned to Lowe's. The trailer weighed 1850 lbs like this...

My trip to Lowe's was only four miles on a quiet Saturday morning. After dropping those off, I then proceeded to remove ~3000 lbs of soil/gravel mix that I accidentally allowed to be used as fill after a driveway project. Here is the heaviest of those three loads...

Those loads each traveled 40 miles to two homes. I may even remove another 1000 lbs. Next, I'll be regrading the lawn to see if I can refill the driveway backfill area with excess soil from other areas. If not, then I'll be visiting a nursery to bring home fresh top soil.

Scott

 

[nype]

Nope. Zero rubbing. Not lowered and 225 tire

I think he meant the tire poke, flinging debris up the sides.

 

[swcrow]

I think he meant the tire poke, flinging debris up the sides.

Hmm.... Didn't think of that. Eh.... Not worried about it.

 

[nicholam77]

Took it on an extremely cold drive...

 

[swcrow]

Took it on an extremely cold drive...

Daaaaaaaaaang.... That's cold

 

[cbr600rr]

^PSHHHHH that is nothing!

 

[NopeR]

Seriously.

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[swcrow]

Post 'em up then.......definitely relative...that is crazy cold for us from VA

let the "beat -9" game commence

 

[mopar22]

I could walk out to the car and get a nice low number possibly but the car shall sit till i need to go somewhere or it warms up

 

[nicholam77]

No doubt there are places that get colder. Even here for me tomorrow it's supposed to be high of -14, overnight low of -30, with wind chills in the -50 to -60 range. Even for Minnesota it seldom gets this bad.

Either way, -9 is still pretty cold for a "performance" car. Let's just say my oil temp barely started reading by the time I got to work.

All-in-all though I'm pretty impressed on how the mk7 operates in extreme cold. I remember my mk4 shifter was a lot stickier in cold temps.

 

[swcrow]

^ saw those temps on the news for Minneapolis area....unreal.

 

[Albee]

Pretty cold in Wisconsin lately

 

[JC_451]

^

wtf

 

[swcrow]

^

wtf

Bwuahahahaha

 

[Diggs24]

No doubt there are places that get colder. Even here for me tomorrow it's supposed to be high of -14, overnight low of -30, with wind chills in the -50 to -60 range. Even for Minnesota it seldom gets this bad.

Either way, -9 is still pretty cold for a "performance" car. Let's just say my oil temp barely started reading by the time I got to work.

All-in-all though I'm pretty impressed on how the mk7 operates in extreme cold. I remember my mk4 shifter was a lot stickier in cold temps.

Last time I was in Minneapolis for my brother's wedding:

https://www.wunderground.com/history/daily/us/mn/minneapolis/KMSP/date/1996-12-26

Never had my face actually be in pain being outside until then.