http://www.zen43025.zen.co.uk/golf/Some photos of my GTI. Had it for a week and a half, and I'm enjoying it. A few teething problems, including a disappearing front number plate (insufficient sticky tape, so got it reattached with screws) and a tempramental rear wiper. Still, I'm very glad that the 17" wheels look a lot better in the flesh than they do in photos.
GTI 3dr photos
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Regarding your temperamental rear wiper, you may find that slamming the tailgate shut every time eliminates the problem. It's a common fault, apparently!
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Nice pics koff, btw how do you do the coloured nonsense pic - how do you apply the effect just to the background, and not the car? looks quite cool.
How does DSG work then, shift the gear stick to D, and then you're in first, and use paddles from there?
How does DSG work then, shift the gear stick to D, and then you're in first, and use paddles from there?
Thanks for everyone's comments. To answer one query, I'm afraid I
can't remember how I did the red filter on one of the photos. I
was messing about with Photoshop, and found something that you could
apply to s elected areas.
I "chose" the Interlagos cloth seats because I had the choice between
DSG (and wheel), or leather seats. To get both would push the
price of the car ever closer to Nissan 350Z money, so I decided to call
it a day with the options. Besides, having had leather seats in
my previous car, I got a bit fed up of the burnt/slippery legs in the
summer.
I'll bear the wiper comments in mind. Seems like a pretty bizzare oversight by VW.
Did a 500 mile trip in the car last weekend, and loved every mile of
it. The car turned out to be practical enough to carry four of
us, 2 sets of golf clubs and our weekend's luggage. And the
obligatory Road Angel... ;-)
can't remember how I did the red filter on one of the photos. I
was messing about with Photoshop, and found something that you could
apply to s elected areas.
I "chose" the Interlagos cloth seats because I had the choice between
DSG (and wheel), or leather seats. To get both would push the
price of the car ever closer to Nissan 350Z money, so I decided to call
it a day with the options. Besides, having had leather seats in
my previous car, I got a bit fed up of the burnt/slippery legs in the
summer.
I'll bear the wiper comments in mind. Seems like a pretty bizzare oversight by VW.
Did a 500 mile trip in the car last weekend, and loved every mile of
it. The car turned out to be practical enough to carry four of
us, 2 sets of golf clubs and our weekend's luggage. And the
obligatory Road Angel... ;-)
See my entry in the Hints section. You can either put it into
drive and move the stick over to a little mini-gate (wherein you nudge
it forward to go up and back to go down, or use the paddles for both),
or you can just stick it in D or S, and switch to the paddles just by
using them. It's an excellent little system, I think.
Not likely, unless it's popping out for a drive when I'm in work,
Herbie-style. I moved over the bridge, so you're more likely to
see it dawdling at 5mph in Britain's slowest rush hours.
Yes, I took a few but they were under-exposed. Will try it again
at some point. The mkIV dash probably looked a bit classier, and
less like a Honda Civic's. But, to me, it does look a little
old-fashioned now. You quickly get used to the new one,
particularly because all the buttons seem to fall easily to hand.
Ergonomicaly, it's excellent.
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What version of photoshop are you using?
I've been using Paint Shop Pro 8 cos Photoshop 4.0 I was using used to mess the quality up when resizing photos to print, thats why I swapped.
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