My TSI is a month old...

[bombsquad21]

FYI I still have the following issues with the car…For the point of full disclosure.

Engine has a misfire, I would describe it as mild. Hopefully R8 coils would remedy this.

Hill hold is great unless you are trying to reverse down a hill or park with a reverse gradient.

Gearshift is truly awful and at 17000kms is only getting worse, buy the auto.

Car dents by merely looking at it, seemingly weak sheet metal.

Wipers are awful to use and mine have had flaking paint since new.

My front bar (unpainted) is badly discoloured with a zebra pattern, I've seen this on few different amaroks...

I bought the cup holder from a VW dealer, Actually I bought the base one hopeless gentleman at one dealer and the cup holder bit from another hopeless gentleman at another. I shouldn't be so hard to purchase parts for your car..If someone knows a good VW service or spare parts guy in Brisbane please, Post it up!

[Sharkie]

I thought for the info of all that may be interested i'll post a little summary on here, things i've learned from the first 7months of Tsi ownership.

*Gumtree and ebay are your friend, a lot of people add canopies and bull bars and wheels and things. You need to be patient, meticulous and relentless all at the same time.
Things i've done are,

-Bought the chrome roll bar from a nice guy who fitted a canopy, spotless and less than a third of the cost. Most amazing thing was, he was a cop! You would not read about it!

-Bought a cover for the tray, tonneau cover that installs slickly by using aluminium angle instead of traditional hooks and hoops, massive PITA especially with the sports bar and not recommended. I use the tray a lot, I sold it. They guy who bought it was super nice, also hated his VW service manager.

-I Installed dupli-color bed liner, I got it cheap. After a couple of months its looking okay in a used kind of way. It's a DIY kit that includes kevlar in the coating. If you tray doesn't take a beating and prefer form over function pay the $800 and get a decent spray on liner.

- I bought 20inch Range Rover Supercharged wheels on continental tyres. This is possibly the best purchase I've ever made automotively!
OEM wheels are superior quality, tyres are great. I ordered wheel bolts and cups from Ebay. The whole thing wasn't cheap but much cheaper than upgrading at a dealer. I had many idiot wheel shop guys trying to sell me black wheels with a large star in the middle. Often featured on Navaras.

- I bought Oem fogs for the price of a couple of drinks in a night club, they improve the tsi "pogo pack" look no end!

- I installed a mongoose QVW head unit I bought of gumtree, awesome price, great unit. Bought a flush mounted jay car reversing camera. It's all very functional and all up was less than 20% of a dealer fitted unit.

100% agree, Ebay and Gumtree are your best sources for stuff by far !

Interesting stories in your journey there I have done a lot of the same and also have had some very interesting experiences .....

Rhino spray on liner for me has been perfect so far and its had a few workouts already ....

- Rear drums looked all discoloured and awful after fitting the wheels, so I painted them with nice black brake paint, looks super dooper.

Researching brake upgrades at the moment, larger front discs and possibly rear discs mod as well. Let you know how that goes.

[Sharkie]

FYI I still have the following issues with the car…For the point of full disclosure.

Engine has a misfire, I would describe it as mild. Hopefully R8 coils would remedy this.

I'd definitely be trying new coil packs and plugs if I where you. It'd be something that would bug me and would get serious attention. Mine (at 2000km) has no such issues and pulls like a train. But then I have not babied it all and it regularly sees the rev limiter ....

Gearshift is truly awful and at 17000kms is only getting worse, buy the auto.

I'd recommend you get some Redline Gear Oil in there. I had notchy shifting in the GTI and the Redline Jmac filled the gearbox with at 15000km eliminated the issue and it remained gone 6 years later. My Rok is notchy but not any worse than what I'd expect from a Ute. Redline is in its future at the 15000km service.

My front bar (unpainted) is badly discoloured with a zebra pattern, I've seen this on few different amaroks...

$900 will get you a paint job to match the rest perfectly. Looks like it was made that way. Look in my thread for the paintshop's details. Happy for you to have a look at mine before you leap

If someone knows a good VW service or spare parts guy in Brisbane please, Post it up!

Contact JMAC (Alba European) this forum. Master VW mechanic and allround good guy. I've used him for 7+ years on 5 VWs, highly recommended.

[Sharkie]

Also, if you want to hook up VCDS to the Rok to see what codes its throwing let me know as I can help with that.