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WTS: Parting out my GTI - Endless MX-72 brake pads, UNIbrace XB, P3 Cars VIDI & MORE I'm moving and want this stuff gone! That doesn't mean I'll cave to lowball offers, but I'm motivated to get the bigger items out of my garage! I traded in my 2013 GTI 4 door DSG CBFA. I have the following...

Driving home from work the other night doing about 65mph, some ricer in a Cobalt tried passing me. It wasn't happening. Stomped on the gas, activated the kick down switch, got a hard downshift, then suddenly the check engine light came on. Car drove completely fine the remaining 20 miles home...

I had these springs on my car for only 9 months before upgrading to a full coil over kit. They're in excellent shape. $175 shipped to the lower 48.

I purchased a brand new Unibrace RB in red from the manufacturer and have never bothered installing it. Includes all the hardware and ships in the original box. $225 shipped to the lower 48. http://unibrace.com/product/series-rb/rb/

Anyone here have any experience repairing LCD/LED TV's? My girlfriend has a 2 1/2 year old LG 47" 47LV440-UA that is now displaying either a solid blue/purple rectangle or a distorted image in the same location. This TV only really has a power supply PCB, and a main board PCB in addition to the...

I just got a Costco membership last week. Their 93 Octane is significantly cheaper than the Sunoco that I usually run. As of 2014, Costco is bragging that their gas is Top Tier (mostly a marketing gimmick). Before I go waste money on a full tank and log timing correction factor with VAG Com...

I'm a car guy. I love cars. One hardly gets past me on the road that I can't recognize. If someone suddenly blindfolded me while I was driving, I could probably tell you the make, model, and approximate year of every car around me. Driving home from work today I saw what I thought was a...

Back in June I installed the TyrolSport Dead Set kit and all new OEM bolts in my front subframe. All was good for a few weeks until I took it to a track day at Mid-Ohio on July 7. I got a really minor clunk when taking fast, hard corners. Ever since then, it's been down hill from there. Now it...

I bought my GTI last August and have racked up over 16k on the clicker. I had heard mention of the kickdown switch in a couple of threads, but never really bothered to think about it. Even having done two track days with the car, I never activated it. Last night I was reading about it in a...

After purchasing my GTI last August, I got it on the track once last fall at Nelson Ledges and had a blast. Surprisingly, I was only 1 of 2 VW's at an event with ~150 cars! How many of you could be interested in hitting the track a few times this summer? Here are a few that I'm tentively...

My buddy who is a VW tech installed my SuperPro anti lift kit LCA mounts, Driver Gear Springs, and sway bars for me. This meant, of course, dropping the front subframe. After he got it all back together, he couldn't get the camber equal on the left and right. Left: -1.16deg (-1deg 10min)...

I've Googled and Googled until I couldn't Google anymore and can't find an answer to this... I'm considering the Porsche Boxster NQSBBK brake upgrade. Does anyone know if these calipers will fit under the Laguna wheels without spacers? And I'm guessing that I'm SOL with my 16" alloy winter...

I've got it stuck in my head that my GTI needs a LSD. HS Tuning is pretty close to me and sells the Peloquin units. I've found plenty of threads here and elsewhere on the interwebs of people talking about how they've had one installed for them. Has anyone here actually done the job them self...

**** CAR HAS BEEN SOLD AS OF OCTOBER 2016 **** I purchased my 2013 GTI Driver's Edition DSG in Carbon Steel Grey in August 2013 to replace a 2011 Nissan Frontier PRO-4X that was killing me on gas. In April '13 I took a new job that increased my daily commute from zero (I worked from home) to...

Way to drop the ball, UPS! I really hope Amazon's contract with UPS allows them to seek reimbursement for monetary damages. I had two separate Amazon orders due be delivered 12/24. One (order placed 12/19) was apparently delayed in UPS's system and never showed any tracking progress until...

I finally got around to installing my UNIbrace XB from the group buy. What a PITA! Bruce makes an excellent product and put together pretty descent instructions. (Although a separate set of instructions for the MkVI would be nice rather than referring back and forth between the generic and the...

Winter is fast approaching and if there's one thing I'm going to miss having, it's going to be a remote start. (I already bought snow tires!) I'm trying to piece together a system that'll be relatively easy to install. I've installed alarms, remote start systems, and such before but never on a...

Let me start off by saying that I'm a former ASE Master Tech and have worked in a shop. I understand mistakes happen. It's how you deal with them that will cause you to lose a customer or earn repeat business. My 2013 VW GTI Driver's Edition picked up a nail in one of her rear tires the other...

Maybe I'm overreacting, but here's the email I sent to VWoA this evening:

My GTI is my daily driver and I don't want to destroy the ride comfort or add too much NVH. For now, I'm planning on leaving the stock springs and struts in place. The only additional upgrades I plan are the SuperPro ALK control arm mounts and bushings to add 0.5deg of caster. I do the...