kazmart

Mate Same thing happened to me after the dealer cleaned the engine compartment. I'll bet the locking cam is stuck - look in the hole where the bonnet catch fits. Stick a smallish screwdriver in and you will probably be able to flick the cam back into its normal position. It took me ages to work out what was wrong. Hope this helps.

http://www.mytyres.co.uk/ £79.70 each Had mine fitted locally for £10 a tyre - very pleased with them!!

I regularly leave my GTI parked up when overseas - anything up to 4 weeks. Never had any problems on my return, other than slightly rusty brake discs! <font color="blue"> </font>

Tyres pressures should also be adjusted ideally when the tyres are cold. If you have been driving for a while before you make adjustments then the pressures won't be strictly accurate. You'll also be surprised at the difference if the car has been standing for a while with one side in the sun and the other not!!

Thanks Guys. You pretty much confirm my own thoughts. Don't want to cut my nose off by cancelling the order and therefore making delivery even later. Funnily enough already have a pretty massive later prepared in chronological order ready to send to stealer principal and to Paul Willis Director of VW UK. I don't think it unreasonable either to request a courtesy car to cover the interim perriod between their original estimate and the one there giving me now, especially as I think there 'blagging it'. Will let you all know how I get on.

Be interested to hear your comments on my order situation. I think my stealer is giving me somewhat of a run around at the moment. I placed my order for a GTI on 15 August deposit paid and told that it would be ordered the first week of September with estimated delivery December 14th (Quoted on order invoice). Happy with that. One month later, still heard nothing from stealer. So pop in to showroom, told can't order the car until first week in October expected delivery now March 2006. Very unhappy. Note mild understatement Now end of first week in October - still no news - no commission number, no build week etc. Get the feeling the stealer has been slightly dishonest about the whole deal. I think he has far more orders than allocations and in honesty his estimated delivery dates are wildly inaccurate. To my mind if he knows how many orders he has and how many allocation slots then he should be able to provide a realistic estimate of delivery date. Furthermore customer service is abyssmal from this stealership, phone calls not returned, messages not passed on internally at the stealership, lack of info ref order - all in all, so far a cr*p experience when spending 20k plus on a new car. I've already complained to VW UK about the poor customer service, but am now ready to fire letters at both the stealership and VW UK. This also has an impact on selling my present car, agreed to sell to a friend in November and borrow a car for a month or so from another friend until my GTI arrived. Now I would have to impose on my friend to borrow a car for far longer or buy a snotter until GTI delivered. What would you do??? kazmart

Pax = passengers. Sorry no intention to confuse. Work abbreviations creeping in.

Beaten to it!! Most mags will also publish figures of bhp/tonne - this will give you a rough idea of power to weight ratio, but doesn't tell the whole story. Driving a vehicle is the only way to know if it is right for you!!

More or less - it's the max payload of the vehicle - could depend on what you're carrying in the boot - gold bullion perhaps - then you probably couldn't carry 5 pax

Quoted delivery Feb/Mar - there's a whole story behind that too!! GTI brochure quotes unladen and gross weights for manual and DSG, and as Red Robin correctly says - he quoted Gross Vehicle weights (they check out in the brochure too). Most mags will quote unladen weights when comparing vehicles.

Hi Guys been lurking for some time and great place for info. My GTI doesn't arrive until next year unfortunately, however the answer in the weight difference is already above - the weights qouted for the GTI are Gross Weights - the ones for the Leaon are unladen - hope this clears things up. From the brochure - manual 1336kg DSG 1355kg no info ref 3/5 door. Cheers Martin