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Soft-touch trim and door cards degrade on every surviving car

Volkswagen GTI (Mk4) · interior

The Mk4's celebrated interior has one universal aging problem: the rubberized soft-touch coating turns sticky and the cloth door card inserts sag or peel. Commenters and sellers alike treated this as inevitable, with one seller of a meticulous JDM import stating no car on the planet has escaped it and another calling sticky buttons simply the typical Mk4 issue of age.