Huangmoney
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I recently purchased a mk7 tdi with 153k miles, and the rubber in the engine and trans mounts are pretty worn. Has anyone done them yet? I've done a lot in mk7 gti/R but theres lines running across.
Has anyone done engine/trans mounts in their TDI yet?
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DivineChaos
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Have you checked them? It's a diesel. They vibrate more
Huangmoney
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Yeah, you can tell on startup the motor jumps quite a bit, and you can rock the engine and see the mounts move when its off
Cuzoe
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I've got 034 Motorsports engine/transmission mounts. I'm told they will fail on me. They might, but they've been fine for about 15k so far. Just barely stiffer than stock, which is what I wanted. I had a dogbone insert, the power flex diesel specific (soft) one... It was unbearable. Or I'm just old 
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I want to, but am too afraid to try BFI stage 1's. I picked up a set of GTI ClubSport mounts from the classifieds on another forum for when the 034's go. I don't know that the ClubSport are any stiffer than regular GTI. I also don't recall whether diesel Mk7s get softer mounts then the gassers.
Edit: When I replaced my mounts I could easily rock the engine by hand. And with the mounts out of the car I could move them by hand as well. That was somewhere around 30k. Car is 6MT, Kerma tuned at ~5k, never launched but lots of canyon driving trying to keep up with much faster non-diesel golf variants, haha.
.I want to, but am too afraid to try BFI stage 1's. I picked up a set of GTI ClubSport mounts from the classifieds on another forum for when the 034's go. I don't know that the ClubSport are any stiffer than regular GTI. I also don't recall whether diesel Mk7s get softer mounts then the gassers.
Edit: When I replaced my mounts I could easily rock the engine by hand. And with the mounts out of the car I could move them by hand as well. That was somewhere around 30k. Car is 6MT, Kerma tuned at ~5k, never launched but lots of canyon driving trying to keep up with much faster non-diesel golf variants, haha.
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740GLE
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034 mounts use OEM casting just more "special rubber insterts" prob the best sytle for OEM+.
BFI stg 1 look much nicer parts designed for GTI/R crowd and prob too rough for TDI.
BFI stg 1 look much nicer parts designed for GTI/R crowd and prob too rough for TDI.
hooville
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I have the 034 mounts on my GTI, and the castings are missing a couple mounting points our Sportwagen TDI uses for the fuel filter and some wiring support so you'll need to work around that. I'm assuming that's not a big deal or Cuzoe would have mentioned it as a potential gotcha.
They are a great OEM+ upgrade for the GTI: No increase in NVH that I have noticed but they made a noticeable difference during launches and shifting. Probably soft enough to work on a TDI without too much additional NHV. The TDI has the 034 lower dogbone insert and it improved both shifting and launches with only a slight increase in vibration at idle (Wife didn't notice it at all, and she's the primary driver).
They are a great OEM+ upgrade for the GTI: No increase in NVH that I have noticed but they made a noticeable difference during launches and shifting. Probably soft enough to work on a TDI without too much additional NHV. The TDI has the 034 lower dogbone insert and it improved both shifting and launches with only a slight increase in vibration at idle (Wife didn't notice it at all, and she's the primary driver).
Cuzoe
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I thought posted it here when I installed them, but I for sure mentioned that in my build log (shameless plug, although it costs me money, haha). The The missing mount point didn't impact the security of the filter at all.