r/GolfGTI

Worked a decent deal on a used MK8 manual with 20k miles. Picking up tomorrow and am very excited. Our family has had some GTIs/Golfs over the years and am excited to get my first “car” after daily driving trucks the last 15 years. Dad had GTIs in the 80s and my sister had a delightful ‘05 Golf I used to drive occasionally. In a perfect world, I would have bought one CPO but this is the right miles, good shape and a price I’m happy with. I believe there’s a dealer warranty or remainder of some of the factory warranty. I will do basic mods, but nothing too crazy as it’ll be my daily. Do you recommend I purchase an extended warranty when I do the paperwork tomorrow? Also looking to hear of some “under the radar” first basic mods to look into, short shifter, etc., etc. Have always been a GTI fan and am excited to finally have one!

Ready for spring, with a few new changes. Comfortable with where the car is at this point for a fun daily.

Mods since I bought it in June last year:

Kw V1 coilovers

Eqt stage 1 ecu & dsg tune

VW oem rotary wheels

Spacers - 15mm front 20 rear

Cobb full catback

Racingline r600 intake

Lots of small aesthetic stuff

Someone sideswiped me while it was parked overnight, obviously no note left and nothing caught on the camera. Poor CFB. Could be worse I guess! At least the Pretorias are still fine. Off to the body shop!

Been too stingy to invest in the foam cannon and drying towel to clean my car at home, plus my dad thinks I’ll waste too much water but this is the last straw lol

It’s been progressively getting worse and the sprinklers in my neighborhood suck and get every car dirty so it’s impossible to keep my car clean for longer than a week without taking up my dad’s driveway space

Finally pulled the trigger on a beautiful mk7.5. Loving how the red contrasts with the silver metallic, and how fun it is on the roads.

Thanks to everyone who reassured me about the stage 2 tune, pumped to be joining the gti family.

Here to praying that she holds up for the next 5 years!

41 MPG!

Does anyone have a preferred place that carries 8/8.5 plaid by the yard?

I’m also looking for a place (other than eBay) that carries nice quality VW/ GTI embroidered patches.

I have a craft project that I’d like to realize, but have been disappointed with my google results thus far.

Pic for attention 😁

I currently have cts turbo short shifter but it still wiggles in gear a little bit. Has anyone bought bushings to make it more notchy?

Pic for Attention

hi everyone, I just wanted to share an update about my car. I bought this 2019 MK 7.5 GTI rabbit edition about a month and a half ago and these are the odds I added onto it.

neuspeed intake

neuspeed fmic

cts catted downpipe

step colder spark plugs

stage 2 eqt tune

cobb ap

mbrp 3inch exhaust

in the future, I was thinking about maybe getting some springs and a rear sway bar but for the rear sway bar, I don’t know what to get cause this is my daily driver and I don’t want something too stiff so any recommendations would help.

The car’s been really fun so far with the month and a half that I’ve had it i’ve really enjoyed taking it apart and learning new things about it. It has about 96,000 miles right now. i just wanted to share. thank you

Am I the only one that has three Obd2 connectors? two female one male?

like why? I was starting to really think I had a power problem with my obd2 port when I took the fuse panel off and found these.

I found this short shifter on Ali baba for mk5-7 I’m just wondering if this would fit for my mk8 because mk8 short shifters are like 500$ and I’m not trying to pay that

needing to get 1 or 2 sensors fixed and dont feel like paying $300 for 5Q0919297BGRU . any one have any good luck with something like these?