Hey man, I saw a post You were in about doing an auto to manual conversion 2 years ago and I was wondering if you ever had any luck. I'm actually in socal too, not a lot of cool vw guys down here so was looking for some help with mine. I have an '05 gti 1.8T
Wow I am so sorry this reply took so long.
I didn't even see this message come in. anyway,
I bought the rack set up on ecstuning.com. it's just the basic vw factory bars (like $175) and the rocky mounts attachments ($80 each)
I highly recommend them, and I believe ECS is having a sale on the mounts right now
where did u get that sweet roof rack? i might be going to montana for 5 months this summer and everything i take has to fit into (or on top of) my car (gotta love a hatch)
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