VW Golf Mk5 GTI Pedals for Altea

[Romm]

Just finished installing my new Volkswagen Golf Mk5 GTI Pedals yesterday in my Altea.
I was very excited to find out if the pedals and footrest would fit the Altea.

And the great news is they fit perfectly!

I've put up a few pictures here:
http://picasaweb.google.com/rasmus.romm/VWGolfMk5GTIPedals

The original Seat Aluminum footrest is attached by glue and two screws. The Golf GTI pedals on the other hand is attached by three plastic clips on the backside of the footrest and a single hidden screw. Due to the different contructions I was expecting a lot of trouble during install.
But fortunately installing the pedals was very straight forward and the entire procedure took only about an hour.

I think the GTI pedals suits the Altea very well!

 

[Viking]

Looks nice.

How many Krone did it cost you for the pedals?

 

[Romm]

I ordered the pedals from vagparts.com, amounting in £96 including shipping to Denmark...

I didn't bother to ask my local dealer for a price assuming that he would charge way more than £96!

 

[Viking]

I was sort of wondering if it would be cheaper to pick this sort of thing up over there next time I go, but it doesn't sound like it. Need to find the right Altea first aswell, before I start buying add ons.

 

[klawit]

Hi guys,

for those interested in the partnumbers ...

gaspedal f. gearbox----- 1K1 721 503 N --- 61,02 €
------------------------------ 1K1 723 503 R --- since FR
breakpedal f. gearbox-- 1K0 721 131 4J4 --- 7,49 €
clutch pedal--------------- 1K1 721 601 4J4 --- 7,49 €

footrest-------------------- 1K1 864 551 TKH --- 11,37 €

gaspedal DSG/automatic------ 1K1 723 503 N --- 61,02 €
breakpedal DSG/automatic--- 1K0 723 131 4J4 --- 12,06 Euro

(prices dating back to 09/2006)

... and how it looks when all 4 pedals fitted ...
=> http://www.klawit.homepage.t-online.de/images/18_Alu-Sport-Pedalset.jpg

btw. I hadn't had to remove half the carpet (like shown on Romm's pictures) but just the plasic side cover where the footrest is fixed with a torx underneath ... and definitely no glue needed when mounting the footrest.

And as you might reckon from Romm's picture with both the old & new gaspedal ... they seem to be identical but are slightly different at 2 points:

a) the base where anchored in the floor ... the GTI gaspedal is a little shorter there, which means you will need a lot of pressure to get it attached into the clips ... at least it started with modelyear 2006 (mine) where there seems to be additional reinforcement embedded in the floormat, so you have to shove this away a little)

b) the upper cover of the gaspedal is shorter and will leave a little opening up where the cable is connected ... but that's to be neglected.

Well ... hope that helps future tuning fans

greets ... Klaus

 

[Rallye Dale]

Looks really well

 

[bal]

Just finished installing my new Volkswagen Golf Mk5 GTI Pedals yesterday in my Altea.
I was very excited to find out if the pedals and footrest would fit the Altea.

And the great news is they fit perfectly!

I've put up a few pictures here:
http://picasaweb.google.com/rasmus.romm/VWGolfMk5GTIPedals

The original Seat Aluminum footrest is attached by glue and two screws. The Golf GTI pedals on the other hand is attached by three plastic clips on the backside of the footrest and a single hidden screw. Due to the different contructions I was expecting a lot of trouble during install.
But fortunately installing the pedals was very straight forward and the entire procedure took only about an hour.

I think the GTI pedals suits the Altea very well!

Hi there Romm,

The pedals look great! I've read your other posts and have gathered that your Altea is an FR with DSG. Am I right? If so, then I've finally found someone who owns one, as there are none in the UK with this spec as I presume no one has ordered new and they mostly go for the TDI FR, as does everyone in this forum.

I was hoping you could tell me a little bit about the car i.e. what's it like to drive, did you buy from new, any complications, fuel consumption, DSG, paddle shift experience, driving comparison with the Golf GTI , etc, etc, as I'm looking to place an order with SEAT UK in the next couple of months.

Also, from your pictures, I noticed a lot of silver trim around the dials. Did you install the detailing kit from SEAT? Do you have any other pictures of the car that you could share?

Cheers,
Bal

 

[Romm]

Hi bal

I appreciate the kind words...

You guessed it right my car is a '07 Altea FR TFSI with DSG...

I picked the car up at the dealership brand new on the 20th of april. So I'm only just getting familiar with the car. So far the car has only 2200 kilometers on the odometer (~ 1350 miles ).
As I'm getting more and more used to the car I'm more and more in love with it, it's simply amazing!

I've had no complications what so ever with the car. Fuel economy could be better I've managed an average of around 9 km/l so far. The official numbers are 12,7 km/l. I have a very relaxed driving style and seldom put the pedal to the floor.

At first I wanted a FR TDI and took a few cars for a spins at different dealerships but to be honest I wasn't that impressed with the driving experience...
The gearbox wasn't as precise as one can expect and the engine delivers it's burst within a very low number of revolutions.
I might add that I've never owned a diesel car so it takes a little more than a few testdrives getting used to.
That said the accelleration of the FR TDI is awesome due to the enormous amounts of torque!

The dealer then put me in a FR TFSI and boy what a difference! It was clear to me in seconds why the 2.0 TFSI has won engine of the year to years in a row. At all revs the engine delivers a tremendous amount of power. The engine has great torque starting at very low revs and delivers massive power when reved up.

It was love at first sight!

The very first testdrive i took in a TFSI was with manual, and it impressed me as little as the manual gearbox in the FR TDI, being clumpsy and unpleasent to work with.
So I decided to find a dealer who had a TFSI with DSG.

When driving the TFSI with DSG it felt like a completely different car. The experience was silky smooth, powerful and very pleasent!
The DSG equipped TFSI feeels more driveable but not quite as rough nor brutal as the manual TFSI.

After taking the Altea TFSI DSG for a spin it was settled I had to own one...

I must say the experience of the DSG is amazing! I will not buy a car without DSG... ever ... period!
Driving along twisty roads using the paddle shifters gives you a unique Schumacher feeling... it's great and makes handling safer always having two hands at the wheel...

In my opinion the Golf Mk5 GTI DSG is less sporty except for the lower riding position and has a more luxurious feel to it. It might be the better quality interior and better sound proofing that makes the difference.

The silver interior trims are all original Seat kits. I've chosen Alu kits over chrome.

Unfortunately I have no pictures of the entire car online at the moment...

Theres lots of pictures of Alteas found in this danish forum:
http://bilgalleri.dk/html/gal_alle....YearFrom=&formYearTo=&brand=&formsearch=altea

Cheers

 

[bakedanenome]

Hi Romm!

Thanks for the review and for the great link- so many amazing pimped Alteas

I've been looking for a bit of inspiration to mod my one up- the more I go through those pics I can see this becoming a very expensive project

Cheers

 

[bal]

Hi bal

I appreciate the kind words...

You guessed it right my car is a '07 Altea FR TFSI with DSG...

I picked the car up at the dealership brand new on the 20th of april. So I'm only just getting familiar with the car. So far the car has only 2200 kilometers on the odometer (~ 1350 miles ).
As I'm getting more and more used to the car I'm more and more in love with it, it's simply amazing!

I've had no complications what so ever with the car. Fuel economy could be better I've managed an average of around 9 km/l so far. The official numbers are 12,7 km/l. I have a very relaxed driving style and seldom put the pedal to the floor.

At first I wanted a FR TDI and took a few cars for a spins at different dealerships but to be honest I wasn't that impressed with the driving experience...
The gearbox wasn't as precise as one can expect and the engine delivers it's burst within a very low number of revolutions.
I might add that I've never owned a diesel car so it takes a little more than a few testdrives getting used to.
That said the accelleration of the FR TDI is awesome due to the enormous amounts of torque!

The dealer then put me in a FR TFSI and boy what a difference! It was clear to me in seconds why the 2.0 TFSI has won engine of the year to years in a row. At all revs the engine delivers a tremendous amount of power. The engine has great torque starting at very low revs and delivers massive power when reved up.

It was love at first sight!

The very first testdrive i took in a TFSI was with manual, and it impressed me as little as the manual gearbox in the FR TDI, being clumpsy and unpleasent to work with.
So I decided to find a dealer who had a TFSI with DSG.

When driving the TFSI with DSG it felt like a completely different car. The experience was silky smooth, powerful and very pleasent!
The DSG equipped TFSI feeels more driveable but not quite as rough nor brutal as the manual TFSI.

After taking the Altea TFSI DSG for a spin it was settled I had to own one...

I must say the experience of the DSG is amazing! I will not buy a car without DSG... ever ... period!
Driving along twisty roads using the paddle shifters gives you a unique Schumacher feeling... it's great and makes handling safer always having two hands at the wheel...

In my opinion the Golf Mk5 GTI DSG is less sporty except for the lower riding position and has a more luxurious feel to it. It might be the better quality interior and better sound proofing that makes the difference.

The silver interior trims are all original Seat kits. I've chosen Alu kits over chrome.

Unfortunately I have no pictures of the entire car online at the moment...

Theres lots of pictures of Alteas found in this danish forum:
http://bilgalleri.dk/html/gal_alle....YearFrom=&formYearTo=&brand=&formsearch=altea

Cheers

Hi Romm,

Thanks for the thorough description of the the Altea FR DSG. Now my task is to find a dealer who has one

Cheers,
Bal

 

[Romm]

bakedanenome -> You're welcomed! There is practically Alteas on every street corner here in Denmark a lot of them are pimped like hell...
Personally I'm disgussed by the extreme degree of modding after all the Altea is only a micro MPV not a sportcar...

Bal -> No problem! Please let me know if I can be of any more help...
You won't regret buying a FR TFSI DSG it's an amazing car!

 

[klawit]

hmmm ... trying to remember ...

... what was the title of this thread ? ....

just kidding ... read your posts with interest, Romm ... and quite a nice photostory on the fitting of the pedals.

Only thing is: I'm afraid the information about the pedals will be overlooked when there is a huge discussion about the TFSI burrying it.

just my two cent ... Klaus

 

[bal]

hmmm ... trying to remember ...

... what was the title of this thread ? ....

just kidding ... read your posts with interest, Romm ... and quite a nice photostory on the fitting of the pedals.

Only thing is: I'm afraid the information about the pedals will be overlooked when there is a huge discussion about the TFSI burrying it.

just my two cent ... Klaus

Hi Klaus,

I guess I did 'bend' the forum rules a little bit by temporarily hijacking this thread to ask Romm about his car. I'll start another thread in the main forum next time I need to know something about the FR TFSI DSG

Cheers,
Bal

 

[RGC]

Just finished installing my new Volkswagen Golf Mk5 GTI Pedals yesterday in my Altea.
I was very excited to find out if the pedals and footrest would fit the Altea.

And the great news is they fit perfectly!

I've put up a few pictures here:


The original Seat Aluminum footrest is attached by glue and two screws. The Golf GTI pedals on the other hand is attached by three plastic clips on the backside of the footrest and a single hidden screw. Due to the different contructions I was expecting a lot of trouble during install.
But fortunately installing the pedals was very straight forward and the entire procedure took only about an hour.

I think the GTI pedals suits the Altea very well!

hi m8
just a quick question on removal of the Accelerator pedal i know there is a bolt at the top but what holds the bottom on as i have tried to remove the pedal and cant seem to get the bottom to release??

rgds

Richy

 

[Toxic]

all explained here:

http://www.seatcupra.net/forums/showthread.php?t=178301

 

[RGC]

all explained here:

Thanks!!!

 

[Donitsi]

That was one the best link's for Seat Altea's I've stumbled over! Nice collection of Altea's.

Just curious but what makes the Altea so popular in Denmark? If I take and 200km roundtrip here in Finland, I'm lucky if I spot one other than mine.

In my opinion MPV's are future thing in tuning/pimping cars Just keep it simple and no crappy fiberglass monsters. Slam it down, throw some nice 18-19" wheels and OEM or some other subtle bodykit.

Sorry for the off topic

 

[willywilson]

if im lookin at the ryt pics these come standard on the cupra k1

if i am... pls get me a pic on the gti ones