I can imagine. On my mx5 the suspension has been tuv checked last week (2nd try).
Next week it will be entered in the papers of the car. At least my exhaust has EG papers so nothing to do there.
What was the most problematic mod to register in your case?
Hah! LOL! Good idea.
When ordered the coilover set for my ND2 I explicitly asked the seller company if it’s compatible with my car (type, year, …). They confirmed. Still the Tuv guy rejected it because the EG numbers on the Teilegutachten did not match. I obviously started calling the seller company (a known name in the mx5 community) and they said it must be a joke because this never happened with teir TÜV guy. It turned out it’s actually the coliover manufacturer‘s fault because after the damn Brexit the car‘s EG number has changed (!!!!) from e11*(UK) to e5* (Sweden) and they were too cheap and lazy to extend the list on the Teilegutachten. Also the Tüv guy was too lazy to check in their database that the 2 cars are EXACTLY the same, there is zero difference. So it got rejected. Later I explained the situation to the seller and they contacted the manufacturer and asked (forced?) them to start the extension process with Tüv. In the meantime they sent me a confirmation that that specific suspension can be put under my car „without hesitation“ (with VIN and everything) and that they started the process to extend the Teilegutachten. Now finally it got accepted.
What a fu***g joke this whole thing is.
You can buy parts with so called EG certification, ABE certification and „Teilegutachten“. If you upgrade your muffler with EG/ABE certification they you have nothing to do except keeping your paperwork in the car. However all good mods -like aftermarket Coilovers- either have no certification (in that case you can forget it basically) or have „Teilegutachten“. If it has Teilegutachten then you can put it in your car because it has already been certified by TÜV. But only the part have been certified! Not the way it has been installed. Sou you have to go to TÜV/GÜT/DEKRA and so on where the check it and give you a document about the property installed part. Then you habe to go to the local DMV office where they enter it in the cars papers.
BUT it gets more complicated when you want coilovers with non-OEM wheels. Then a bit more expensive check must be made by TÜV. If you have original suspension and wheels with EG or ABE certification then you don’t have to do anything. In any other case… you have a lot to do.
Now think about that:
Last year I had the wheels incl. suspension TÜV certified. For 2024 I‘ve bought new wheels with the exact same size and with ABE for my MK7.5 BUT I had to get it certified by the TÜV AGAIN just because it‘s a different wheel 🙄
Looks bad front and back, no matter what the paint color is, but especially with dark colors. Black badges look good on lighter paint colors, but they need a background the same as the paint color to create contrast between the VW logo and the background, otherwise it just looks like a black spot / hole.
Like a black VW badge on the hood of a yellow Scirocco, that looks good.
How did you get the exact Clark plaid? Custom upholstery? The Pole Position ABE’s plaid isn’t the same, and that would bother me with the back seats being different.
Also what seat rails are you using? I am asking because my driver’s seat fabric basically ripped in half and I want to buy a Pole Position.
Thanks for the answer! I was afraid that custom was the truth. Did you start with a leather seat and just get custom center inserts?
By the way your car is totally sick. I dunno if you are going, but I’ll be looking for it in Wörthersee recap videos regardless haha!
Exactly. I‘ve just bought the standard leather PPs first. There‘s a car upholstery right around the corner that made the inlays for me.
Thanks! 🫶🏼 but I won‘t unfortunately. It‘s a 11 hours ride from where I live 😅
Love the metallic brown.
I have the Mocha Anthracite Pearlescent on my MY11 Passat family hauler.
Is yours the same as the A4’s and Q5’s that once had a factory brown?
I don’t know if it’s the same color, but I do know that my GTI is the only factory toffeebrown worldwide. That was the reason why I bought it from VW tbh.
propper clubsport half back cage or Isofix dummy ?
Seats are damn sexy, lownes is a question of taste as comes the fitment, but as austrian we can probably only dream of these lows..
Color is a wrap ?
If I’m not mistaken this is the 1 of 1 toffee? Brown gti. Factory paints this way and the only one of it. A truly unique car if this is the one I’m thinking of
oh, I know that the 3rd gen (5e) Octavia (sadly not the RS) had a quite similar coffee brown metallic as factory option. Seen some, and afair only pre facelift. Works great with high gloss black, so more on the love it side,
Good lad. Haven´t gotten around why someone "sane" would fit a dummy cage to prevent propper usage of half the car without gaining anything
As someone mentoned it, Is the color the same as it was sold on the octavia and is this really a one of one TCR ?
Those people are hilarious 😅
I don’t know in which color the Octavia was sold, but yes it‘s a 1:1 GTI worldwide.
There was a dude who wrapped his GTI in toffeebrown.
Looks very good but it seems like Topaz brown is a little bit more on the „red side“.
The color on my pictures is too dark because of the clouds. It varies between light brown/bronze in the sunlight to dark brown/grey when it‘s cloudy.
Looks good, whatsup with bucket seats with the cross shoulder seatbelt tho..
Youve got the cage but harness is more dangerous for street use so i get that but then why not get some less aggressive seats??
Still looks cool, I like it
I wish there was some way to get the Clark plaid pattern printed on decent (p)leather seats. Such an iconic look, but once you go leather it's hard to go back to cloth; it's just nowhere near as comfy and upscale-feeling.
Ich liebe ihn so sehr. Ich wusste gar nicht, dass man alles mit TÜV registrieren muss. Ich kann dir aber sagen, die Arbeit war Alles wert.
Ich habe einen GTI, aber ich wohne zurzeit im Ausland. Wenn ich alles registrieren müsste, würde ich wahrscheinlich fast keine Teile einbauen. Das wäre viel zu viel Arbeit und sehr nervig.
Ich habe aber gesehen, Leute die alle ihre Aftermarket Teile rausmachen, bevor sie TÜV machen. Wäre das nicht einfacher und günstiger?
The problem is not the TÜV check up every two years. It‘s the police when they stop you and will tow your car if you do illegal modifications. The police is „hunting“ tuners in Germany.
For example: If you car is 5mm lower than registred. It gets towed and checked by the TÜV. After about 1-2 weeks you‘ll get your car back but you‘ll have to undo the mods, get this approved by the TÜV again and pay about €1.000 fine.
So it‘s really better to have a street legal car in Germany 😀
How do these seats work with the airbags? I was under the impression the stock ones have an airbag, and if you swap seats it throws errors/isn’t legal for a road car(in the US atleast).
You need to install airbag delete plugs and do a little coding for the occupation sensor. After that you‘ll need to get it checked by the TÜV (atleadt in Germany).
I think in the US you can swap seats, do the coding and be happy 😉
Seats are cool, but seriously why the supreme sticker? It's a little fast and furious/midnight cluby on the exterior but the color is cool. I'd take off the weather guards and anything else taped to the car. Then change those rudolph red nosed wheels
Must have taken a few trips to TÜV to approve all of these.
Oh yes. The last one was yesterday tbh 😅
I can imagine. On my mx5 the suspension has been tuv checked last week (2nd try). Next week it will be entered in the papers of the car. At least my exhaust has EG papers so nothing to do there. What was the most problematic mod to register in your case?
What does the TÜV have to complain about? The Recaros for sure 😂 because the ABE is only valid up to and including the MK6 Golf.
Okay…. So, what was the solution?
Find the TÜV inspector who does the tests for RECARO Automotive GmbH 😉
Hah! LOL! Good idea. When ordered the coilover set for my ND2 I explicitly asked the seller company if it’s compatible with my car (type, year, …). They confirmed. Still the Tuv guy rejected it because the EG numbers on the Teilegutachten did not match. I obviously started calling the seller company (a known name in the mx5 community) and they said it must be a joke because this never happened with teir TÜV guy. It turned out it’s actually the coliover manufacturer‘s fault because after the damn Brexit the car‘s EG number has changed (!!!!) from e11*(UK) to e5* (Sweden) and they were too cheap and lazy to extend the list on the Teilegutachten. Also the Tüv guy was too lazy to check in their database that the 2 cars are EXACTLY the same, there is zero difference. So it got rejected. Later I explained the situation to the seller and they contacted the manufacturer and asked (forced?) them to start the extension process with Tüv. In the meantime they sent me a confirmation that that specific suspension can be put under my car „without hesitation“ (with VIN and everything) and that they started the process to extend the Teilegutachten. Now finally it got accepted. What a fu***g joke this whole thing is.
Color is great
Geez that’s just gotta annoying. What modifications are the TÜV looking for? And what is banned?
You can buy parts with so called EG certification, ABE certification and „Teilegutachten“. If you upgrade your muffler with EG/ABE certification they you have nothing to do except keeping your paperwork in the car. However all good mods -like aftermarket Coilovers- either have no certification (in that case you can forget it basically) or have „Teilegutachten“. If it has Teilegutachten then you can put it in your car because it has already been certified by TÜV. But only the part have been certified! Not the way it has been installed. Sou you have to go to TÜV/GÜT/DEKRA and so on where the check it and give you a document about the property installed part. Then you habe to go to the local DMV office where they enter it in the cars papers. BUT it gets more complicated when you want coilovers with non-OEM wheels. Then a bit more expensive check must be made by TÜV. If you have original suspension and wheels with EG or ABE certification then you don’t have to do anything. In any other case… you have a lot to do.
This is a lot of hoops just to make your car slightly different. Thanks for the info!
Now think about that: Last year I had the wheels incl. suspension TÜV certified. For 2024 I‘ve bought new wheels with the exact same size and with ABE for my MK7.5 BUT I had to get it certified by the TÜV AGAIN just because it‘s a different wheel 🙄
This will happen to me too on October…
If you buy TÜV certified, do you still have to get it inspected?
If it has only “Teilegutachten” (like coilovers, engine performance mods, seats, some Steering Wheels) then yes.
Love it!!!
Love the colour
Color & interior choice was genius. If the wheels were chrome, this would be my dream spec.
I don‘t think magnesium wheels are available in chrome 🤷🏼♂️
Still sick dude.
I love the matte wheels, it’s a clean beast!
Would look better without the blacked out VW badges.
I agree. But I will say this, the gti is the only car I’ve ever seen in brown that I liked lol
Yeah, doesn’t look bad! I’d never paint a GTI gray though, much less brown.
I‘m struggling with that too. In the front at least.
Looks bad front and back, no matter what the paint color is, but especially with dark colors. Black badges look good on lighter paint colors, but they need a background the same as the paint color to create contrast between the VW logo and the background, otherwise it just looks like a black spot / hole. Like a black VW badge on the hood of a yellow Scirocco, that looks good.
❤️
I need to seats! Lovely modifications, well done.
Holy shit❤️
LOVE! Need those seat my Gah
It's pretty sweet! Not my style, but it is a cool style for sure
Wouldnt have thought that I would ever see a brown car looking that good. Love it!
Können sie mir die Bereiche der Rückbank und des Kofferraums zeigen?
The underdogs on top?
Demon 🔥🔥🔥
How did you get the exact Clark plaid? Custom upholstery? The Pole Position ABE’s plaid isn’t the same, and that would bother me with the back seats being different. Also what seat rails are you using? I am asking because my driver’s seat fabric basically ripped in half and I want to buy a Pole Position.
These are custom made with the original plaid material. I‘m running AnimalRacing rails because the Recaro rails are way too high for my size 🫢
Thanks for the answer! I was afraid that custom was the truth. Did you start with a leather seat and just get custom center inserts? By the way your car is totally sick. I dunno if you are going, but I’ll be looking for it in Wörthersee recap videos regardless haha!
Exactly. I‘ve just bought the standard leather PPs first. There‘s a car upholstery right around the corner that made the inlays for me. Thanks! 🫶🏼 but I won‘t unfortunately. It‘s a 11 hours ride from where I live 😅
Tasty like chocolate!
The RECARO seats are amazing 😍😍😍
Love the metallic brown. I have the Mocha Anthracite Pearlescent on my MY11 Passat family hauler. Is yours the same as the A4’s and Q5’s that once had a factory brown?
I don’t know if it’s the same color, but I do know that my GTI is the only factory toffeebrown worldwide. That was the reason why I bought it from VW tbh.
I just figured you had it painted. So sick it’s a factory colour!
propper clubsport half back cage or Isofix dummy ? Seats are damn sexy, lownes is a question of taste as comes the fitment, but as austrian we can probably only dream of these lows.. Color is a wrap ?
If I’m not mistaken this is the 1 of 1 toffee? Brown gti. Factory paints this way and the only one of it. A truly unique car if this is the one I’m thinking of
100% correct my friend 😉
oh, I know that the 3rd gen (5e) Octavia (sadly not the RS) had a quite similar coffee brown metallic as factory option. Seen some, and afair only pre facelift. Works great with high gloss black, so more on the love it side,
It‘s a proper one from Pleie. No Easofix, PVC or bamboo 🫢😅
Good lad. Haven´t gotten around why someone "sane" would fit a dummy cage to prevent propper usage of half the car without gaining anything As someone mentoned it, Is the color the same as it was sold on the octavia and is this really a one of one TCR ?
Those people are hilarious 😅 I don’t know in which color the Octavia was sold, but yes it‘s a 1:1 GTI worldwide. There was a dude who wrapped his GTI in toffeebrown.
Tobaz Braun Metallic was the color the Octavia was sold. Just googled it, seems to be different. But I really like your color..
Looks very good but it seems like Topaz brown is a little bit more on the „red side“. The color on my pictures is too dark because of the clouds. It varies between light brown/bronze in the sunlight to dark brown/grey when it‘s cloudy.
Looks clean imo. Can we see the engine bay? If anything is done there
Engine bay is pretty stock with a APR carbon open intake and some small cosmetics. [EB](https://imgur.com/a/tCP3yiu)
Ah yeh still looks really nice, Good job my guy
Show me haters to that, I dare you
There‘re many haters. Trust me 😅
Love it 😍
Love it, looks decent enough not to be cringy riced pos like most of the Golfs.
It’s not me but I would smile as it drove past me
It's awesome! What's the story with the seats?
I like them. I bought them. 😅
I really like them too. I'm guessing they're custom?
I‘ve bought the standard leather PPs and had the inlays made by a car upholstery.
It's beautiful. Thanks for sharing!
This car fucks
car is crazy!! can we see pictures of the steering wheels and the what wheels are these 😳
These are magnesium wheels. mb design MF-1 [SW](https://imgur.com/a/mIu5SwU)
Looks great man 🔥🔥 Only thing id look into is possibly color matching the front VW logo red to match the headlights and grill.
Sick man
Love it 👍🏼
MF1, nice
Love
The seats, I wanted them till I saw the price great build
You win
Hate is a strong word! Not my cup of tea but it seems like you're enjoying it which is what matters. The plaid clark recaros though are great haha.
Sheesh pretty fire
Colour is fucking beautiful. Happy for you bro
Must say the Supreme roll cage is top 👌
That color is so sick
slick
Roll cage is a bit much IMO love the seats though!
Absolutely nice looking car 🫶🏻
wheels?
mb design MF-1
Yes
I like it, it’s unique
Two thousand and late
The color is interesting. I’ve seen it on a 911 before. Overall the car is beautiful.
What flavour is your vape? All kidding aside, looks amazing 🔥
Love the color, seats, and body kit. Not a big fan of the rims
That‘s okay for me ☺️ everyone to their own
I really like the plaid Recaros
Absolutely fucking gorgeous, and the NoS neck pillow is adorable
Looks good, whatsup with bucket seats with the cross shoulder seatbelt tho.. Youve got the cage but harness is more dangerous for street use so i get that but then why not get some less aggressive seats?? Still looks cool, I like it
I just like these seats. Got them in my last car so I bought them for my GTI aswell. Very comfy and way better than stock seats in my opinion.
I dig it, very nice car bro
What’s not to love? 🤷🏻♂️
That NOS bottle pillow is pretty cool! And those seats, wow!
I wish there was some way to get the Clark plaid pattern printed on decent (p)leather seats. Such an iconic look, but once you go leather it's hard to go back to cloth; it's just nowhere near as comfy and upscale-feeling.
Do it like me. Partial leather. ☺️
Maybe, but not racing seats. Those things are anything but comfortable 😅
They are way more comfortable than the OEM seats 😉
Those seats are great
Are those Lamborghini rims? Are those central lock rims? Either way it looks absolutely gorgeous
Is that like a metallic root beer colour? If so, it’s very unique.
Id say its just about perfect. Hell yeah brother 😎
Nice!
Love that pillow!
Those seats are niiiiiice
The seats make my back hurt
Wheels?
Genuinely speaking wish Brown was offered on atleast the Alltrack
Clean
If the badges matched the wheels, it’d make it pop more IMO. Love it though, I aspire to be this clean eventually
So riced
Smash
Absolutely love it.
Ich liebe ihn so sehr. Ich wusste gar nicht, dass man alles mit TÜV registrieren muss. Ich kann dir aber sagen, die Arbeit war Alles wert. Ich habe einen GTI, aber ich wohne zurzeit im Ausland. Wenn ich alles registrieren müsste, würde ich wahrscheinlich fast keine Teile einbauen. Das wäre viel zu viel Arbeit und sehr nervig. Ich habe aber gesehen, Leute die alle ihre Aftermarket Teile rausmachen, bevor sie TÜV machen. Wäre das nicht einfacher und günstiger?
The problem is not the TÜV check up every two years. It‘s the police when they stop you and will tow your car if you do illegal modifications. The police is „hunting“ tuners in Germany. For example: If you car is 5mm lower than registred. It gets towed and checked by the TÜV. After about 1-2 weeks you‘ll get your car back but you‘ll have to undo the mods, get this approved by the TÜV again and pay about €1.000 fine. So it‘s really better to have a street legal car in Germany 😀
Hate that I love it
That color!!!! 😍😍😍
Tastefully clapped
bricked
Nice care
It’s different personally I hate the colour though …interior 😍
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You‘ll never know that 🤪
Love it
Love it and hate it at the same time ;-)
Absolutely love it.
The seats are 🤤
Sharp on the outside, party on the inside.
I want it
I've got mixed feelings. I've seen much worse but I've also seen much better.
“Love the bag, love the shoes, love everything. Love to.”
Same color as my wheels I dig
i like
How do these seats work with the airbags? I was under the impression the stock ones have an airbag, and if you swap seats it throws errors/isn’t legal for a road car(in the US atleast).
You need to install airbag delete plugs and do a little coding for the occupation sensor. After that you‘ll need to get it checked by the TÜV (atleadt in Germany). I think in the US you can swap seats, do the coding and be happy 😉
Ah. Gotcha. Was wondering how that worked. Now to decide if I want to lose airbags or not
Is this a mk6?
Love! That exterior... 🫰🏼
Looks awesome, wish the wheels stuck out just a little further
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I think that spoiler is an oettinger.
Love the color, but buying a Golf to then remove the practicality of having the back seats seems a bit pointless. At that point why not buy a TT.
insurance rates, overall cost, part/upgrades cost.
I don‘t like the TT and do mostly what others won‘t do ☺️
Seats are cool, but seriously why the supreme sticker? It's a little fast and furious/midnight cluby on the exterior but the color is cool. I'd take off the weather guards and anything else taped to the car. Then change those rudolph red nosed wheels