Crank walk, water pumps and three oil jugs: The Mk7 is the Best Golf Ever Made
Charles' two-week-old buyer's guide to Volkswagen's seventh-generation Golf has passed 180,000 views on a week without new uploads.
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The Mk7 is the Best Golf Ever Made
Among the car channels closest to HumbleMechanic in size, the week's loudest numbers belonged to Mark McCann and OFFICIALLY GASSED. Charles sat lower down the list for views gained, but his own channel was running warmer than usual: daily views came in above its normal pace, with nothing new posted.
The video doing that work is "The Mk7 is the Best Golf Ever Made," two weeks old and past 180,000 views. The title makes the argument, and the description admits it is an opinion, but the video itself doubles as a buyer's guide. Charles, a Master Certified Volkswagen technician, walks through a project car looking for the red flags: crank walk, leaking water pumps, a Cobb exhaust and, in the hatch, three different jugs of oil with three different specs. The chapters end on a definitive ranking of the generations, and the description promises a story or two from his dealership days along the way. Ray Youman filmed and edited it.
Behind it, two summer projects keep turning over. A complete EA888 rebuild, made with gasket maker Elring, covers both the 1.8T and 2.0T, the engine family found in everything from a Jetta to an Audi Q5. And the long-term verdict on his Golf R with an Audi RS3 DAZA swap is still asking its own question nearly three months on: was it worth it?
For a channel built on keeping VWs out of the shop, it is fitting that the busiest video right now is the one about what to check before you buy.
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The Mk7 Volkswagen Golf won which award in 2013?
The seventh-generation Golf was named European Car of the Year in 2013, one of several major awards it collected that year.
