Dropped the car off today at my usual VAG/Porsche specialist in Northampton and on the way saw an 08 plate MK5 GTI 5 door in Steel Grey parked up in one of the industrial/retail outlet car parks. I'd seen it several times before and always have a glance but this time, the drivers window was fully down and open which I thought was slightly strange. No-one was within 500 yards of it.
As I was walking past having dropped the car off on the return journey, I walked in to 2 of the shops closest to see if it was any of the employees' cars. Northampton is a bit like a suburb of London in terms of societies and crime levels, so not ideal. I'd usually not have been inclined to mention it with just
any car, but with it being a Golf, a MK5 and a GTI - AND in the same colour as mine, I felt 200% committed
Both people I mentioned it to in the shops unfortunately didn't recognise it. Felt slightly bad for the owner as I know that the window fault on the MK5 window regulators is common although I'd have thought by the MY57/08's it'd have been sorted? The windows have played the very same tricks to me before and I've left one or two of them open on a couple of occasions having held the lock key fob button, when in fact they bounce back down when they hit the top of the window
On the way back to pick mine up, it was raining and pretty miserable conditions.... and.... driving back past the parked up Golf, the window was still down!
Fail.
Is it anyone on here's I wonder?...
I tried
