The Official "I have ordered/received my new MK7 Golf" Thread

[Mountainman]

I picked up my white 90 TSI manual with the 16" Toronto wheels off the Comfortline yesterday $24200 driveaway - which was over $4000 less than I paid for my white Mk6 90 TSI manual 3 years ago. Have just done over 200km already and it is quieter, smoother riding, tighter more solid feeling, noticeably faster - I guess that's what 61kg less weight does - and waaaaay better equipped. Looks better too and the doors shut with an even more solid thunk. And this one had better not blow a turbo or VW will be very hard to forgive. And the engine still isn't as "sweet" as the Forester's with a lot less character. It still amazes me how well it pulls in the upper gears on hills though but it still has that soft spot just above idle and then comes on more strongly than the Mk6 around 1500 rpm. re the sales service I guess there's a lot they still have to get familiar with. They looked so smug whipping the cover off mine to present it in the delivery room but you should have seen the confused looks when I pointed out the they hadn't put the black covers on the wheel nuts. 20 were quickly found. Also I have checked the oil for the first time this morning and it was only half way between the marks. Perhaps it wasn't filled fully when predelivery was performed so after my last experience of 1L use every 3000km I'll be keeping a close check.

[AdamD]

I picked up my white 90 TSI manual with the 16" Toronto wheels off the Comfortline yesterday

I'm surprised that you've decided to go with Volkswagen again, given your comments in other threads regarding VW reliability. Thought the Mk7 was good enough to take a risk on?

[Eaglehawk]

I'm surprised that you've decided to go with Volkswagen again, given your comments in other threads regarding VW reliability. Thought the Mk7 was good enough to take a risk on?

They're not the only one. My co-workers are scratching their heads after I replaced the 2010 Polo GTI with another Golf 110TDI...

But they avoided the DSG7 gearbox like I did...so perhaps we're on to something here?

[Mountainman]

I'm surprised that you've decided to go with Volkswagen again, given your comments in other threads regarding VW reliability. Thought the Mk7 was good enough to take a risk on?

I am a bit too but I looked and looked and drove (and nearly threw up at times - there is some tasteless crap out there) and in the end just couldn't get myself to lay down the money on an i30. And the Golf really does sell itself in the end. A long test drive in the country did it. I figured that I couldn't be unlucky again and it was worth another try. I have just had (and am having) such a good run with the last 3 Jap cars and to have the turbo fail and oil use issues on the Mk6 90 TSI was a bit depressing at times. It was such an endearing journey also for much of the time. Actually it was sold privately to an admiring lady and for a price I couldn't refuse so I hope things go well with it. It was trouble free when I let it go and she'll be used to adding a bit of oil occasionally by the look of the heap she was in.

[Nauend]

Re music on SD card: I think that is the way I will go. Are there instructions on how to set up directories, album art etc? Wouldn't mind getting this done before the car arrives.

The manual does include detail, such as no more than 1,000 entries in a playlist, and 256 characters in a path/name. Fairly straight forward. I've set my sd card up with all songs in the one folder for the time being, so I can use the random function across all songs while I set up some playlists.

Album art sizes are discussed elsewhere on this site or search thru google etc - they need to be embedded into the idtag, and small enough to be displayed. I used a pic of the car as the album art for any song that I need to find the artwork for!

The artwork for the radio stations can be uploaded to the stereo, and needs to be no more than 400 X 240 pixels - it does look good.

[Nauend]

I know two of them, they managed to stick in my mind. First one is regarding the structures behind the dashboard, near the steering column where they added an extra cross-brace member and the other one was regarding the primer used, apparently the Golf now has something like 8 coats of paint/primer whereas the 2012 models had just 6. The rest were to do with poor fitting door seals I think! I'll try and find the document and upload it...

Hi Golf7, did you end up uploading this document somewhere?

[diesel_DSG]

It followed me home today, can I keep it? hehe

Picked it up this afternoon, only done 15 or so km's since delivery, so cant really comment too much other than to say im incredibly happy with it, the colour, body kit and wheel combo look really fantastic.







Really impressed with the ease of connecting bluetooth to my phone, all the features of the vehicle so far have been intuitive, specially coming from a comparatively simple Mk 5. Ill get more kays on it over the weekend, as well as some more pics.

Cheers

Sam

[Ryan_R]

How much is the body kit worth? Does it include the wheels? Looks great.



Anyone get any deals this EOFY weekend? Someone told me they purchased a standard (besides paint) 103TSI for 29,990 today (down from the RRP 36k). I've also heard that due to the recent bad press it's been easier to negotiate discounts with dealer salespeople.

[b c]

Nice diesel_DSG. Is the hatch spoiler an add on, or a replacement?

[rpps]

I have the base model 90TSI manual transmission, it's my first Golf and after coming from a bigger Suzuki Kizashi I thought I might miss the power but this little car is so much fun to drive and on the hilly roads in Tasmania it has ample power which amazes me coming from only a 1.4 lire car. I am averaging 6.2/100klms which is great. I have fitted some after market mag wheels, mud flaps and soon a dash mat, I have to get one tyre replaced as it is out of round and causing a vibration through a car. The only trouble I have with the car is the FM reception, it keeps fading in and out but hopefully VW will come out with a software fix soon. I have made up some radio logos and loaded them on the radio which adds a nice touch.
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[Ryan_R]

Mind sharing how you changed the logos?

[rpps]

I brought up the logo for each radio station by opening up their web page and then used the Snipping Tool in Windows 8 to make a copy of the logo, I saved them as PNG file and then copied them on to a SD card. Put the SD card into the slot in the glove box and close it if it tries to load, press radio button and find the radio station you want to change. Press that icon (in MHZ ) and another screen comes up so select SD card and look through the SD card list for your icon and select it , done.
Here's the one I did for Triple J for you to try, just use the Snipping Tool to copy it.
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PS> I got the idea from this site in SA scroll down to about half way on the page. http://www.vwclub.co.za/phpbb3/viewt...5103&start=325

[Ryan_R]

Excellent, thanks.

[gustogroove]

What is the pixel ratio that people are creating their logos as? Ive been doing 500 x 500 however they dont fit the space as much as I would like them to. I read on another forum this was the preferred sizing.

[Eaglehawk]

Nobody likes reading the manual do they?

400 x 240 is the pixel size for the logos.