What did you do to your MK6 today?

PlaidDad said:

Sold it! Buyer was a motorcycle mechanic who bought it on behalf of his brother. Put almost 100k miles on it, enjoyed it tremendously. Thanks to all those who offered advice on mods, I'm pretty happy with how they all turned out. Only thing I had to re-mod was front end-links, a pretty small mis-step.

Easing the melancholy of its departure is a Lapiz Blue CPO 2017 Golf R w 3 1/2 years and 36k miles of original and certified warranty left. Would never have been able to swing a new R, but loving this one.

Already thinking about a tune, but honestly it's pretty damn quick already.

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sterkrazzy said:

I installed my new headlights today. Spent 3 or 4 hours on it, just taking my time and fixing some things. Like I remounted my ballasts so you can't see them anymore and it looks cleaner. The way the bulbs are installed into the headlight was something I'd never seen before so I wasted a bunch of time messing around with that. Then I couldn't get the right headlight to slide in all the way, so I had to do some trimming to get it in. It's in though and everything looks awesome. I just need to spend a little more time adjusting the aim, but it looks like it's got a pretty good beam and the spread of light is really even.

https://i.imgur.com/tTe65DF.mp4 sequentials!

This one didn't really come through. It looks orange in the picture, but they're red in person.

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sterkrazzy said:

I installed my new headlights today. Spent 3 or 4 hours on it, just taking my time and fixing some things. Like I remounted my ballasts so you can't see them anymore and it looks cleaner. The way the bulbs are installed into the headlight was something I'd never seen before so I wasted a bunch of time messing around with that. Then I couldn't get the right headlight to slide in all the way, so I had to do some trimming to get it in. It's in though and everything looks awesome. I just need to spend a little more time adjusting the aim, but it looks like it's got a pretty good beam and the spread of light is really even.

https://i.imgur.com/tTe65DF.mp4 sequentials!

This one didn't really come through. It looks orange in the picture, but they're red in person.

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sterkrazzy said:

I installed my new headlights today. Spent 3 or 4 hours on it, just taking my time and fixing some things. Like I remounted my ballasts so you can't see them anymore and it looks cleaner. The way the bulbs are installed into the headlight was something I'd never seen before so I wasted a bunch of time messing around with that. Then I couldn't get the right headlight to slide in all the way, so I had to do some trimming to get it in. It's in though and everything looks awesome. I just need to spend a little more time adjusting the aim, but it looks like it's got a pretty good beam and the spread of light is really even.

https://i.imgur.com/tTe65DF.mp4 sequentials!




This one didn't really come through. It looks orange in the picture, but they're red in person.

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jhstl said:

Did you end up using the wiring adapters that came with them? Bulb out errors still present?


Also, do you have any pics of how you mounted the ballasts? I just got mine in the mail today and I was looking inside trying to figure out what I need to disconnect if I want to turn the demon eye feature off. I would prefer to have that wired to parking lights only or something else.. I'll have to play around with them once I get them installed.

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smanierre said:

I just use Mann for both, the oil filter is only like $15, I really didn't even know there were that many different brands for oil filters.

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uglybastard said:

Amazon has them for like 13 most of the time

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ACHILLES R32 said:

Got a tyrol sport hatch brace. Wondering if I should get it painted black.

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alpha3 said:

You can get a 5-pack or 10 pack of Mann filters from ECS tuning. That brings the price down to about $9 each. I've always used the Mann ones, they're German made, a buddy of mine told me they make the OEM ones for VW as well. Not sure about that part but they have always worked well for me.

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PhthaloType said:

I'm pretty sure OEM is just MANN with with a VAG logo on it. I put a MANN in a couple of days ago, and compared it to the OEM filter it was replacing. They looked completely identical except for the printing (can't speak too much for internals of course, but looking into the open end they still looked identical as far as I could tell). Also, OEM had the MANN part number printed on it in addition to the VAG part number.

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pdan said:

Installed my Eurosport x brace yesterday. Was kinda nervous about drilling, but it ended up working out. Managed to not screw it up too badly, and am pretty happy with the result.

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