my first venture in to the mk7 club...

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An impressive undertaking!

I look forward to seeing how it goes.

thanks mate, was a bit daunting but I'm just trying to break it down to manageable parts...

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some of the parts have arrived, first up the bracket. it's missing the levelling screw etc but I suspect I might end up with another when I buy a radar anyway. I just wanted this to use as a template to drill the crash bar...



next was the wiring harness which I'm very impressed with for $40. it comes with all the loom tape and split conduit...



it also comes with a splitter for connection to the can bus so I can de-pin the existing then plug in to the splitter plug...



steering wheel switches, not cheap. hard to get hold of in the correct part number, I ended up getting these from the UK...



radar, also not cheap but feel like I got this at a good price and from Australia so not suffered the bad weather...



as suspected it came with the bracket and face cover which is good. I might try and cut the other bracket down and use that as the face plate between the bumper and radar bracket...



its a revision J which I haven't read much about however I'm reliably informed it supersedes revision G so lets hope it works...



looks like it has the correct number of pins which is a good start...

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my plan for the first stage is to get what I think is the hard part out of the way. drill and fit the radar mount and new grill surround then run the wiring harness from the mount to inside the car via a grommet behind the battery. this will bring the harness in to the cabin near the glovebox and access to the can bus wires at the tiul connector...



the wiring should be pretty easy and I'm fairly confident the below wiring diagram and colour coding is correct. I'll use a fuse tap for the red power wire and a decent ground on the body for the black wire...

tiul wire colour coding on the left to the radar harness pin out on the right:
Or/Gr -> CAN-Bus Extended High -> Pin 2 on Radar
Or/Br -> CAN-Bus Extended Low -> Pin 3 on Radar





next up is the fitting of the steering wheel controls, radar and completing the coding including component protection removal...

[MIG]

Nice work, the ACC is 100% worth it

With the LRR do you get any benefit to running the second can line to the lane assist camera? I know on the MRR you only get 160 Km/h and 210Km/h with the camera in fusion mode. (not that it really matters here, no autobahn )

[genebaby]

Yes, I love having ACC. Good work.

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Nice work, the ACC is 100% worth it

With the LRR do you get any benefit to running the second can line to the lane assist camera? I know on the MRR you only get 160 Km/h and 210Km/h with the camera in fusion mode. (not that it really matters here, no autobahn )

thanks mate, looking forward to getting it fitted and prove I can get it working. still a bit nervous at present...

I won't be fitting the camera for this installation, trying to keep it as simple as possible. not sure I'd be trusting my car to do the braking anyway if I decided to 160 Km/h on the m1...

do you have any contacts for component protection removal please? the only place I can find remotely close to brissy so far is in Maroochydore and they want $300 which I thought was a bit steep. may be I'm wrong and that's the going rate, I haven't been down this road before...

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from posting in the coding forum and reaching advice from Don, I think I've got the coding sorted...

19 – Gateway
Add 13 – Auto Dist. Reg on the installation list
Under Adaptation change steering wheel type to ACC

01 – Engine
Set ACC with Front Assist ( PR-8T3, PR-8T8 )

03 – ABS
Edit Byte 24: Change to F8
Edit Byte 26: Change Bit 2=1 and Bit 4=1

17 – Instrument
On the cluster set all the ticks for Front Assist and Distance Regulation

5F – Radio
Set all the ticks for Front Assist, ACC and PreCrash

13 – Radar
Set presence of ACC

I'm going to have a crack at fitting it this weekend but still waiting on the steering wheel switches coming from the UK...

In the meantime I'm going to research ODIS to see if I think its worth buying and removing CP myself. Otherwise the stealer has quoted $180hr diagnostic time and you'd hope they'd be able to do the CP removal in that time frame...

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I got a bit bored over xmas and decided the Gti needed a bit more noise so I got a 100 cell sport catted downpipe. of course that led to the dreaded check engine light so the next logical step was the revo stage 2 ecu and tcu tune...

I really wasn't expecting to feel the difference as the power number jump doesn't look big on paper. May be its the torque increase but it definitely feels a lot quicker and the torque steer is more pronounced now...

with extra power I decided a little brake refresh wouldn't be a bad thing, not big but just some better discs and pads on the front. I went with the budget option of brembo grooved and dimpled discs and dba street performance pads...



and just standard Bosch discs and pads on the rear...




also bought it some new shoes for xmas, look away for those with strong hatred for reps...



a bit of a hot hatch line up on the driveway at the moment but there would only be one winner...

[genebaby]

Nice, those pads are on my list for when I need new ones. How do you rate them? What did you have on before?

I actually put a set on our Triton this morning, but I can't tell so much in that vehicle.

I really like my stock pads and I have heard these will have a similar feel.

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[Lucas_R]

Looks like the GTI is sticking around for a while longer than I first though. It looks nice with the new rims. You almost have a different car to drive every day of the week by the looks of it.