Scirocco Central

Cuprabob wrote:

whiteDevil_170 wrote:

Cuprabob wrote:I never pay any attention to it and change gears when I want to.

totally agree! It does recommend changing sooner than I think. I

It's like a nagging wife / girlfriend

Apart from you can go for a drive and leave the wife/girlfriend behind

I think it's a bit of an expensive solution to buy a seperate iPod to sort the issue not if you can buy one cheap from eBay like I did. I quickly got sick of plugging my iPhone 4 in every time I got in the car. I bought a iPod nano off of eBay quite cheap and just leave that plugged in all the time...

I would settle for a light switch! It is so irritating that it is outside the bathroom.

My drivers window rattles too, but only when it is cold. It's been a pain the last few days, but now it's warming up again it's stopped.

Out of interest, which silicon spray do you use?

The temperature doesn't help at the moment, I have dropped 5mpg over the last week or so.

Cuprabob wrote:What makes it worse, Audi says 5 years for the exact same engine.

And VW (outside of the UK) don't have a time limit.

Well if there is another way I haven't figured it out. I initially thought the same as you, it could be navigated with the buttons on the wheel and by changing the MFD to audio, but apparently not. It's a bit of a pain having to do it the other way at times.

There is an input level option for the iPod too. I have to set mine to low to get the best sound quality, medium or high and the sound quality is very poor.

Sootchucker wrote: Also would be nice to have a search facility to search for a track, album, artist etc, as when you have a lot of music on your ipod, trying to find the artist you want can take quite a bit of time.

Yes, that can be a major pain if your looking for a specific song.

I use Shell V Power all the time, it's only about 6p more round here, so about £3 a tank. With the amount of money we pay in fuel anyway it gets lost in the noise. Does it make my mpg any better? I think it does, but others say no. I can't prove it though.

Ryy wrote:Two fingers, gripping gritty white substance used for cooking and used lightly in my case of a bag of chips, sometimes seen as 50% of an R&B group popular in the mid to early 90's..

The This is Money link does say that some cars only need to do a very low mileage to make up the difference, 1,162 miles for a Mini Cooper and 5,542 miles for a Passat are two that stand out. With the cost of the GT scirocco diesels being less than the GT petrol, you are already saving before you dr...

I would love to be getting 60 mpg! My average is between 47 and 49 mpg, sometimes I am lucky enough to get 50 but that's the exception rather than the rule.

Still, if I wanted excellent fuel economy I would have bought a 1.0 litre Fiesta.

The Golf does seem to be quite expensive to insure compared to other similar cars. For me, insurance costs between the 2.0 TDI and 2.0 TSI was hardly any difference but even on my mileage (9,000 pa) I calculated that the running costs of the 170 TDI were a lot less than the TSI.

RW1 wrote:And night time unless under 100m viz, day or night.

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I wish more people took note of this. Why do people feel the need to drive around all the time with their fog lights on?

It's not the fan by any chance? Happens a few times on mine after I park up when the engine is hot or it is going through the DPF regen cycle. Usually stops of its own accord within a couple of minutes.

Same for me, I have even had a few people comment that my car "has a good sound to it"

- Cam belt and tensioner at 4 years (VW service tables state longer but in the press they've just admitted it was 4 years being raised to 5 years for post August 2009 registered VW's). Thats very interesting... there was a lot of debate on UKMKIV's about that with it being pointed out that VW Germa...

Cuprabob wrote: I expect that there will be an R diesel model in the next generation with over 200PS, again to compete with BMW.

I hope so, would be my next Scirocco

A lot of the rental cars in Canada have a remote starter, where you can use the key fob to run the engine for 15 mins to heat the vehicle before driving off. With the winters getting colder each year, that's something that would be a good idea over here too.