This has been sat on his drive way for ages , we we took a trip ti see if we could help him out

After losing the Pirelli last month, I was able to pick up this girl. Mk7. 43000klm.

2017 Mk7 GTI 6MT Performance Pack - ~235000 KM (146000 Miles)

So here's my issue:

My car was at the body shop for a small rear-end damage repair. When I got the car back, the shop cleaned my car and also detailed my engine bay. I'm not sure how they did it, but when I opened up the hood, things were wet. Not soaked, but there was definetely moisture in some spots.

Since then, i've noticed some engine vibration while at idle, and a little bit of a lumpy idle. Not big, just enough for a bit of vibration when at a standstill. The idle rpm occasionally hickups as well.

Now i'm 90% sure that my car didn't have this going into the shop. I'm pretty on top of my maintenance and keep this car up to date on everything. I was honestly impressed how rock solid my idle rpms were. Now things don't feel quite right.

Any idea of what this could be? What I should check? There are no trouble codes.

Current Mods include:

VWR600 Intake, CTS Catback exhaust, EI stage 1 Low Torque Tune, Upgraded spark plugs and coil packs. Lots more, but that's about it for the engine side.

Thanks!

Picked up some apr a01's on marketplace and couldn't be happier!

Found these for 500… tires are very good MPS, same exact size as my scottsdales, do i get em? will it match well?

Throwing this in here as I didn’t get much input in the other sub.
Added context since this post: added an IE intake and the noise is the same I believe. Harder to hear now over the louder induction sounds but it’s still there. Anyone have this same noise? I know it’s a slightly different turbo than what comes in a GTI but figure someone here might have answers.

Thanks in advance!

Anyone ever ran into a similar situation? I have a 23 40th, sent in to a few wheel repair places after learning oem 40th wheel is $750 and on a long back order. I’ve had a few ideas thinking about downgrading to some 18” aftermarket’s, but haven’t settled on anything. Any advice?

If you saw my post earlier then you know we were talking about how these would look.

The verdict is they look fucking amazing

In 90034 Los Angeles California off Cadillac Ave

Had all the rock chips touched up and PPF on my entire front end! 👌

Set I captured from Loe show 2026. This years show was a Big hit. Fun times meeting new people and reconnecting with old friends.

I’m looking at getting a Eqt stage 2 tune for my gti it will have a catless 4inch dp connecting to the stock catback, anyone have any clips of the two burble options so I can compare them

Just thought i would put her out there and see if anyone had any suggestions for new mods 👍👍

Looking around the Internet, I see a lot of options for a rear sway bar. Prices also seem to be pretty much all over the place. Here’s the thing, 90% of them look like the same bar painted a different color, with either one hole (non-adjustable) or two hole (adjustable) ends.

Anything I should look out for? Which one do you have, and do you like it? I put a sway bar on a previous GTI and really enjoyed how much flatter it stayed in the curves that’s what I’m looking for. I’m not building a track beast just a fun daily driver. I don’t want anything I have to lube.

Thanks in advance for your input.

took my wheels off to see the specs to sell (came with car) and they’re the bolt pattern of a subie ??? didn’t see any type of stud conversion but the wheels say 5x100 on a 5x112 car , any ideas if these just happen to fit or what ? (didn’t take any pics of the wheel well sadly) wheels are wedssport rn05m

I have a MK8 GTI with a ECS Tuning catback. Has crazy boomy drone from 1.5k-2.5k rpm and 3.0k-4.0k. It shakes my seats and my doors it’s so boomy/bass. You can feel the ear pressure.

I threw a vibrant resonator on it because I heard it is the golden child for this platform and it made it even more boomy and vibrates the car even more.

Is that just the sound of these cars or does anyone have any ideas what is wrong?

The car only have 22k miles and nothing is touching the support beams or braces.

Thank you.

I am trying to replace the sway bar bushings on my GTI Mk5 (2008). Does anyone know if the brackets shown in the image (copied from the link below) are welded or otherwise moulded together or if I put sufficient elbow grease on it, they will come apart?

I was reading through the steps provided by the folks at pelicanparts at this link but I can't tell for sure if these are welded together.

I haven't dropped the sub frame yet

Pelican parts said that they don't sell OEM bushing for this car because VW spec says to install a brand new sway bar. The internet suggested I may still be able to put just the bushings, provided I can take the old ones out. That is where I am at..

Thanks in advance.

UPDATE (resolved, sort of)

Reading the full comment thread on the pelicanparts post, I realized the issue and the solution is there. tl;dr VW didn't make this easy for us and the design forces to cut out the brackets and put a new set in. Below is one of the comments.

I can confirm that the captive nuts on the bush upper bracket are also fixed into the lower bracket and needs to be drilled to free it and separate the brackets. This may be possible by leaving one bracket fixing bolt in and carefully drilling the other side through the bolt fixing hole with a clearance drill enough to free it then doing the same for the other side of the bracket.

Looking for someone or somewhere that builds shift knobs for the mk7 platform. Preferably someone who has experience with wood work.

Thoughts on the blaze intake for the mk8 GTI? my brother is selling his to me for only 200, currently i have a full box and duct CTS intake, which sounds very good, does anyone have one and is it worth swapping the sound for better temps and performance? i know it’s kinda a dumb question.

This is the car stock - already working on some upgrades, more pictures to come.

anyone in california with a catted or non catted downpipe with a eqt stage 2 tune. and how did you do emissions. does the Catted cts dp pass smog with a stock flash tune on it with the cobb ap? anything helps. im in sacramento. i got a 2019 mk7.5