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What did you do to your mk7 today?

JC_451

Autocross Champion
Location
NJ, one of the nice parts.
Car(s)
2017 GTI Sport
Thursday night my wagon ate a road gator. Luckily nothing mechanical was damaged, but every underbelly cover and the front bumper were destroyed. Fortunately a friend still had his stock GSW TDI front bumper laying around! Swapped the bumpers out real quick and ran down to Dubs at the Lake!
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It has a beard now, it looks distinguished.
 

GTI Jake

Autocross Champion
Location
Charlotte, NC
Manned the squirt gun (MIG welder) & built the final AWD MQB DP/MP weld fixture today.

42 hours invested in the project so far, so $4,500ish parts & labor so far.
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Wastegate13

Autocross Champion
Location
SoFla

El_bigote_AJ

Autocross Champion
Location
Las Vegas
Car(s)
2019 GTI bunny
I don't have facebook, whats pricing looking like for the downpipe? I'm tapped for now after switching to EQT and needing a fuel pump but there's always Christmas.
Showing as $2,850 says “oem fitment midpipe” so I think that means for connecting to stock catback
 

GTI Jake

Autocross Champion
Location
Charlotte, NC
I don't have facebook, whats pricing looking like for the downpipe? I'm tapped for now after switching to EQT and needing a fuel pump but there's always Christmas.

It’s looking like $3,000 for the 4” DP GESI Gen2 cat (emissions compliant) & OEM Fitment Resonated Midpipe.

That’s only realistic if I can shave 7.5 hours of labor of what it takes to build the parts themselves. Otherwise I’m losing money at 3k.

It’s always quicker to build parts on a weld fixture than on the car, but shaving 30% of the labor off is a lot so we’ll see.

There’s tons of other options out there, but mines the only one that’s emissions compliant, true 4” & 3.5” all the way back, and utilizing a large body resonator in a bolt on solution.

I took on a ton of risk developing such expensive to build parts for this platform, so hopefully it wasn’t stupid of me. At this point I think I’ll be abandoning the full TBE option as a production part, due to sheer cost of doing so both in materials & my time. If I ever revisit that idea at least the DP/MP combo being set up to be modular is in place.
 

GTI Jake

Autocross Champion
Location
Charlotte, NC
Showing as $2,850 says “oem fitment midpipe” so I think that means for connecting to stock catback

I posted that before having final numbers to crunch, I’d be losing money there so outside of one possibly being available cheaper because I dropped a section on MP & dented it…offered a new one to the guy kind enough to drive 12 hours to let me develop parts on his car and he accepted that offer so a cosmetically blemished piece (one of three that make up the DP & MP) will be offered at a discount first come first serve).

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Acadia18

Autocross Champion
Location
The Greater Boston Metropolitan Area
Car(s)
2019 Golf R
Today: Found a dent on the hatch right under the window. No idea where it came from. Another one to add to the list for the PDR.

I found 3 (THREE!!) by my fuel door the other day when I was washing the car. No idea where they came from. And find it hard to believe they have been there this whole time, I would have noticed them while washing the car.

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mrmatto

Autocross Champion
Location
Jacksonville, FL
Car(s)
2024 GTI DSG
I found 3 (THREE!!) by my fuel door the other day when I was washing the car. No idea where they came from. And find it hard to believe they have been there this whole time, I would have noticed them while washing the car.

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Ughhh that sucks 😞

Part 1 of me gets irate and sees the dents every time I look at my car. Part 2 of me realizes my car is a daily it’s *just a car.*



part 1 is right tho
 

Acadia18

Autocross Champion
Location
The Greater Boston Metropolitan Area
Car(s)
2019 Golf R
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