That's exciting! It's nice to have the extra funds available to get ahead on things like loans... If I were a smart man, I'd start working on getting ahead on my house once my GTI is paid off, but where's the fun in that?
That's exciting! It's nice to have the extra funds available to get ahead on things like loans... If I were a smart man, I'd start working on getting ahead on my house once my GTI is paid off, but where's the fun in that?
I just refinanced from a 30 to a 15 and was able to cut my interest rate in half... Payment went up about $200 and I'll save thousands over the life of the loan. At 2.25% interest, I'll dump all of my extra cash in mutual funds rather than pay off the mortgage early.
New tires (Continental Extreme Contacts) were installed plus an alignment was done. Hoping these will be more quiet on the highway versus the tires that came on the GTI.
Installed a Stern rear subframe brace. It was short in all directions. There was a 3-4mm gap to the subframe in the center. I had to make three steel shims to fill the gap. That took a lot of dremelling and using a hacksaw.
I also have a rear euro cover with a bracket that uses one of the side holes for the brace. The brace was getting off center with the bracket in place, so I had to decrease the bracket thickness. Lots of dremelling and hacking again.
In the end the center bolts were a tiny bit misaligned. Using the crazy mk5 torque values (there are no installation instructions for the mk7), i ended up snapping one of the center bolts. Luckily i had front strut tower bolts laying around after installing a Eurosport tower brace, so i used one of those leftover OEM bolts for one of the middle holes on the Stern brace. Torqued all four to about 25-30 ft-lb and used blue loctite.
Overall what should have been a half hour install took me a good 5 hours. Will see how it goes. If i don't like it, I'll be putting the brace up for sale.
Replaced my 7.5 stock LED tail outers with their euro counterparts for a proper amber turn signal. Re-pinned two wires in each connector, some minor coding adjustments, and boom -- much better than the NAR brake light blinker we got. Massive thanks to @ZERO815 for flawless instructions on both the wiring and coding.
