Hey guys,
Happy to join you with a GTI VII. This is my fifth VW after a MKIII, IV, n V GTIs, and a MKVI Golf R. I traded that in for an E90 3-series and unfortunately regretted it for *almost* the entire time. I am happily back in the family, and thoroughly impressed with this generation of Golfs. It feels as torquey as my R but lighter on its feet, the new steering system is great. I miss nothing out of my BMW.
Here he is:
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Untitled by αlex v-m, on Flickr
by αlex v-m, on Flickr
by αlex v-m, on Flickr
Tints on day 3, that was enough fishbowl action for me!
A couple of observations:
- WTH is up with the different MDI cables? I have the blue one, so far I can't get album art to show with an iPod or an iPhone 6+ with the lightning adapter. It also looks like the SD card route requires some voodoo magic and encoding the album art into the file and resizing and it all kind of sucks.
- This is an SE so there is no nav, but it does have Car-Net which has a GPS and a phone. I've used Car-Net for kicks and they find my location exactly, and are able to guide me to where I want to go but only by guiding me over the phone. They say they can "push the direction to my nav" and their system "shows that I received it" but nothing ever shows up on the screen. I wonder if there will be a way to enable it for our head units, since we are already equipped with GPS. Has this been discussed at all?
- Tomorrow I plan on taking it to the exhaust shop and seeing if there is a resonator that can be removed. I've done this on my MKV GTI and VI Golf R, always made a noticeable difference and sounded great! Enough to hold you over for an exhaust. If this has not been done before, I'll update tomorrow.
Thanks, all!
UPDATE: Clip added after resonator delete.
Happy to join you with a GTI VII. This is my fifth VW after a MKIII, IV, n V GTIs, and a MKVI Golf R. I traded that in for an E90 3-series and unfortunately regretted it for *almost* the entire time. I am happily back in the family, and thoroughly impressed with this generation of Golfs. It feels as torquey as my R but lighter on its feet, the new steering system is great. I miss nothing out of my BMW.
Here he is:
Untitled by αlex v-m, on Flickr by αlex v-m, on Flickr by αlex v-m, on FlickrTints on day 3, that was enough fishbowl action for me!
A couple of observations:
- WTH is up with the different MDI cables? I have the blue one, so far I can't get album art to show with an iPod or an iPhone 6+ with the lightning adapter. It also looks like the SD card route requires some voodoo magic and encoding the album art into the file and resizing and it all kind of sucks.
- This is an SE so there is no nav, but it does have Car-Net which has a GPS and a phone. I've used Car-Net for kicks and they find my location exactly, and are able to guide me to where I want to go but only by guiding me over the phone. They say they can "push the direction to my nav" and their system "shows that I received it" but nothing ever shows up on the screen. I wonder if there will be a way to enable it for our head units, since we are already equipped with GPS. Has this been discussed at all?
- Tomorrow I plan on taking it to the exhaust shop and seeing if there is a resonator that can be removed. I've done this on my MKV GTI and VI Golf R, always made a noticeable difference and sounded great! Enough to hold you over for an exhaust. If this has not been done before, I'll update tomorrow.
Thanks, all!
UPDATE: Clip added after resonator delete.
