Time to throw it away.
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What did you do to your mk7 today?
- Thread starter GTA5
- Start date
Time to bag it.
gboticus
Autocross Champion
- Location
- Vancouver, BC
- Car(s)
- 2019 R DSG
Put the R into track day form for the last event of the year.
34 psi on Michelin PS4S
Baka
Ready to race!
- Location
- Bedfordshire, UK
- Car(s)
- 2014 GTI PP
I swear it's like it saves it all up for you. Still, I guess it's less trips to the shop.
Trust me …. I’m close….. equating costs of upkeep to months of a new car paymentTime to throw it away.
snobrdrdan
former GTI owner
- Location
- Southeast Michigan
Awesome!Gas won’t be to bad for me since My daily has been the gti that get 16-17miles on e60 currently lol. And in Vegas ethanol is only 20-30 cents lower.
Yeah I was looking at the borla and saw old posts of people saying they spend like $1100 it’s all listed at $1800 now.
32k miles
24k paid
1owner bought from my local dealer and traded in to same dealer with all records at said dealer. It’s def. been cherried and garage kept cause it’s pristine still, even under the hood was new looking.
Current market is was it is though, if the others GTs listed online it was still “listed below market” since the rest were 2-3k more. Late model depreciation don’t exist in 2021&2022 I guess.
Added to the bunch, couldn’t get ride of the GTI if I tried…too much work and money wasted on it.
I paid $1100 and was one of the first to have the Borla system, and it sounded great & bolted right on.....but now @ $1800, that's a little insane! I'd go custom at that point instead.
Low miles and the price....geez! (I know it's the current market though)
GT's were going for ~$24-25k brand new, back in 2018.
I lost my ass on EVERY Passat I traded in back in the day. The depreciation was TERRIBLE.....now all of a sudden nothing depreciates it seems, lol.
That said, it should still be under warranty right? (6 year 72k bumper to bumper for the 2018's)
Are you going to mod it?
ZERO815
Autocross Champion
- Location
- Köln Germany
- Car(s)
- 2017 GTI SE DSG
A similar approach ;-). Have played a lot with different bump stops/bump stop lengths/took the rear rate ring off. W/ B8s (fronts are the twin-tube version in my car) my take away is shortening at the top end of the bump stop helps to "move" the touch point slightly, but doesn't dramatically change the engagement "character". Tire pressure might be one other lever. Installed 225/40R18 GoodYear Eagle F1 asymmetric 6 tires on my car in May. Started w/ 34PSI, rolling plushness was good, noise also, impacts felt surprisingly harsher than expected. Going up to 38PSI in steps improved it. Only smallest imperfections are a little bit more noticeable, but not bad at all. If I need to reset myself all it takes is a ride in my wife's '14 Beetle R. The factory front shocks are definitely harsher (rears are replaced w/ B6 already
) and trashier than my car.
That's weird, I was feeling the same harshness you posted above with the Yoko Advan V601 (245/40/18) from the day I bought them a year ago. I just got a set of Michelin PS4S (245/40/18) running them at 35 and the car feels like a completely different one. The road feels smoother, some dips and humps I used to feel as if the car rolled over them like a roller coaster feel even smoother now. I would think that it would feel smoother with the 17" sidewall.
GTI Jake
Autocross Champion
- Location
- Charlotte, NC
Mk7 PCV Diagnosis & DIY Installation
StorableComa
Autocross Champion
- Location
- SoCal, USA
- Car(s)
- 17 GSW S FWD
Damn that's a nice price. Still 3.30 a gallon for e85 near me.
Now I don't know if you're mixing or not, but the best purchase I made for ethanol mixing at home was a harbor freight fluid pump. Was like 10 dollars, takes 2 d batteries and takes 1/10 the time to fill.
MonkeyMD
Autocross Champion
Acadia18
Autocross Champion
- Location
- The Greater Boston Metropolitan Area
- Car(s)
- sterkrazzy's exotic
Bro you're not supposed to just put it in trash bags!