I went to Brisk ER12S a few weeks after going 1+ tune which are one heat range colder, same fitment as MK7.
Pros: one heat range colder
Vehicle:
Volkswagen Golf
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replaced tires due to age, cracks with Continental ContiProContact - no more squeaks, nice grip
Pros: no more squeaks, nice grip
Vehicle:
Volkswagen
Mileage: 43452 km
Local VW dealer did the belt, pump, rollers, tensioners with OEM parts and it cost $1700 bucks.
Vehicle:
Volkswagen Beetle
Walmart carries jugs of Castrol Edge SPT 0w40 A3/B4 for much less than quarts at AutoZone
Run it in my R, wife's GTI, and even ran it in a WRX I used to have. It's good oil, the analyses I've sent in over the years don't lie!
Pros: good oil, analyses don't lie
Vehicle:
Volkswagen Golf
My Mk7 GTI has a plastic pan and everyone lost their minds when VW did that from the metal pans on the Mk6. That said, I haven't heard any issues with them and the people who HAVE broken them on track and hitting crap in the road would've demolished the same metal pan anyway. Over 120k miles on mine and almost 9 years with the car and it hasn't kept me up at night, so I can't imagine it's that big a deal. Plus, living in the salt belt (northeast PA) it's just one less thing to rust out.
Pros: one less thing to rust
Vehicle:
Volkswagen
Mileage: 193121 km
Hawk HPS Brake Pads (MK6 Golf GTI) $50 * NIB Hawk HPS Brake Pads Hawk 'Performance Street' Brake Pads: *High Performance Street 5.0 ('B' Compound Code)*The new High Performance Street 5.0 Pads are a Ferro-Carbon compound brake pads that provide advanced braking characteristics to enhance the driving experience.
Vehicle:
Volkswagen Golf
I would recommend only OE VW or Mann filters with a VW 502 oil, preferably 5W40.
Pros: OE VW or Mann filters
Vehicle:
Volkswagen Tiguan
Still getting the runaround on trying to find a replacement. In my experience, the VW's windshields tend to chip & crack so easily. the aftermarket lasts so much longer.
Pros: aftermarket lasts longer
Cons: chips and cracks easily
Vehicle:
Volkswagen
The factory Bridgestone Ecopia tires were trash. They were useless in any wet conditions at 30k miles. It’s rocking some Generals now.
Cons: useless in wet conditions
Vehicle:
Volkswagen Golf
Mileage: 48280 km
My 2013 GTI I believe has been running off of 5w-40 since I bought it. Supplied a shop with European 5w-40 and it still ran fine. Now it's winter, 6-12F outside and I just got the oil changed at a local drive and shine to 5W30 full synthetic and the GTI is running like garbage! RPMs are staggering all over when it goes into neutral, instead of 750RPMS it likes 1k to be normal. It just overall feels wrong.
Cons: running like garbage
Vehicle:
Volkswagen
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