I always figured the rattle complaints were just people being picky about cheap parts but I put a $60 kit in my mk6 last year and that 3k buzz showed up within a week. Turned out the counterweight on the stock lever was hitting the new bracket, trimmed it with a dremel and the noise went away. Might be worth crawling under there and checking clearance before you blame the kit itself.

Ha, see I would argue you just proved the opposite! The cords cost you 40 bucks, sure, but how much time did you waste sleeving and bundling everything in the first place, and now you gotta redo it all anyway. My setup has been a mess for two years and my cat only went after one cable, the one that smelled like chicken grease from my desk lunch (okay that one was kind of my fault). Cats chew cords when they're bored, not because they're tangled, so a tidy desk just makes the problem look nicer while it happens. You paid 40 dollars to learn that mess isn't the bad guy here. Buy some bitter spray and a few cheap toys and save yourself the zip tie headache.