Scirocco Central

My March 2011 Scirocco R came with an RCD510 and no Bluetooth, I bought an RNS510 and factory bluetooth kit and had it fitted by my local ICE guy - all ok and working. The contract ends Feb 13 and i want to reverse the process, my local ICE guy is no longer around, can i just replace the head unit a...

Best solution i've found so far is the ensure that the bluetooth auto play music is setup and the set the phone media playing - you don't have to listen to it, just make sure its running - this seems to stop the bluetooth going to sleep, i think its the low energy feature of bluetooth 4.0 on the ip4...

I recently (last week) upgraded my Iphone 4 to the 4s running 5.1.1. The 4 has always worked with the VWPHONE (factory bluetooth) without issue. I've noticed that the 4s pairs and connects correctly and works as it should but pretty much every day it randomly drops the connection to the VWPHONE thou...

Croccy thanks for the update, sorry to hear yours has been targeted. Mines now garaged.

I pulled off the drive last night I was stopped by the Police 250yds from home, he asked the usual, where are you going, where have you come from, is the car registered in your name etc, then proceeded to tell me to garage the car if possible due to a spate of 3 Sciroccos stolen to order in my area ...

Last few....walking back to the Train station at the Lesmo Curves on the track

Spent the weekend at Monza. Grandstand tickets for the ascari chicane. Incredible sound and speed.

Pirelli P7's on my 2011 UK model

These guys http://poollcruisecontrol.com/scirocco.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; are just down the road from me, haven't tried them but they look reasonable.

Its in my R DSG Manual too - see pic

Having had Alfa's for the last 7 years its a habit to acknowledge other Alfas with an 80-90% response received, Scirocco on the other hand is pretty poor i've had probably 20-30% reaction with some looking positively surprised !!! I guess its an attitude/interest thing.

A few new pics of my Rising Blue R - now with my private reg....it feels like my car. http://i331.photobucket.com/albums/l478/gtleigh/Scirocco/P3290852.jpg http://i331.photobucket.com/albums/l478/gtleigh/Scirocco/P3290846.jpg http://i331.photobucket.com/albums/l478/gtleigh/Scirocco/P3290845.jpg

juniorbanks wrote:So whats it like to have money now you have a car thats not breaking down every 50 miles

Alfa history still blighting the brand!!

My last 2 cars (7 years) have been Alfa, GT & Brera, my wife currently has a MiTo none of them have broken down and have only required routine servicing.

Well my Brera was collected yesterday, i took the opportunity to take a few pics. http://i331.photobucket.com/albums/l478/gtleigh/Scirocco/P3190803.jpg http://i331.photobucket.com/albums/l478/gtleigh/Scirocco/P3190816.jpg http://i331.photobucket.com/albums/l478/gtleigh/Scirocco/P3190819.jpg http://i...

Strat wrote:How you getting on with the car mate? Good / bad / fast / slow / happy / livid?

haha

Good, fast, happy !!

Its an incredible car !

Got my "R" on Friday, very impresses so far. I've done a couple of mods already, S2T DSG paddle shifters, fitted my Pure DAB Radio.

Quick pics better ones to follow....

Nice one! Looks superb! Is it manual or DSG? DSG - My last 2 cars have been auto/semi auto Alfa GT Selespeed & Current Afla Brera Qtronic, both very different but both very good, I drove a Scirocco GT DSG for a few hours on a testdrive and the DSG box blew me away its soooooooo much better that...

Strat wrote:Congrats, and well to the R club.

Any other mods planned?

Not sure yet, i'm not really one for major mods, I like my cars pretty standard, but never say never

Thanks for the link trix, interesting comments, the other option is to fit the fiscon bluetooth unit and keep my current separate Garmin sat nav.

After ordering a 2.0 GT DSG and subsequently cancelling it due to long long leadtimes, i've found and bought a brand new unregistered R DSG in Rising Blue, delivery in a couple of weeks, its a pretty basic spec, metallic & reversing sensors, and only the RCD510 no bluetooth either but i've been ...