The Itty Bitty NOVA VW Committee

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NOVA VW COMMITTEE - 1

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Finally.

Been giving mine some overdue spring love. I walked out of the office in January and saw someone had casually committed this war crime before the damn car was even a year old. 



After washing the dirt off there was a pretty sharp crease in that styling line and a 10" vertical scratch from the edge of the offending door. I have a super high comprehensive deductible so insurance was out, and I decided to just ignore it for the rest of the winter. 

I saw Mach V advertising that a PDR guy would be at their open house yesterday to pull dings at a discounted rate so I went over first thing in the morning to get in line. The guy was super nice, said he had been doing PDR for 17 years, and the results definitely show, this is after polishing and touching up, I'll go back and wet sand/re-fill as necessary after it's had a chance to cure and it should pretty much disappear.




I also swapped back to my summer wheels a few weeks ago, did the car's second oil change, and took it down to NGP in Lorton last Friday to have some VAG-COM coding stuff done instead of buying all the crap to do it one time on my own. 

I had them switch the throttle to the "direct" response profile vs the "load over time" default option, plus the random stuff like windows up/down with the key, prepping me for the hatch-popper kit, setting the heated seat memory setting to permanent, reverse mirror tilt and making the key fob work when the car is running so I can leave the dog in the car with A/C running and lock it. 

I also impulse bought this and popped it in, super easy to install but I almost ripped my arm off anyway because I'm an idiot.




It sounds the same as stock unless you're really beating on it, then it brings a lot more wooshy sucky boosty noises to the table. With the tweak to the throttle mapping it definitely feels a lot sharper and more responsive which is a welcome improvement on a turbo motor that is inherently not-that-responsive. Plus, WOULDJA JUST LOOK AT IT?!

Only problem is now I kinda sorta want an exhaust... I wonder if you can code a GTI to use the flappers on a stock Golf R exhaust...