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Blagged a Scirocco for the Day
Posted: Tue Apr 28, 2009 7:40 pm
by JMcQueen
I've managed to blag a Scirocco for the day tomorrow (expect an extended lunch hour!) and was just wondering if people had any suggestions of things I should try out in it. Also, how do you adjust the suspension between the three settings? wheres the switch (dont want to look like an idiot and have to ask the dealer).
Re: Blagged a Scirocco for the Day
Posted: Tue Apr 28, 2009 8:01 pm
by iAmbu
The switch is very obvious, located just in front of the gear stick / DSG gear selector. It has a picture of a little person on it, with the words COMFORT and SPORT on it also. Simply press it to cycle through the different modes. The middle 'person' is NORMAL suspension setting.
Re: Blagged a Scirocco for the Day
Posted: Tue Apr 28, 2009 8:20 pm
by SHutch
iambu wrote: It has a picture of a little person on it.....
Funny - I always thought it was a picture of a shock absorber
Re: Blagged a Scirocco for the Day
Posted: Tue Apr 28, 2009 8:24 pm
by wigit
JMcQueen, if you are on a decent stretch of dual carriageway with a consitent surface and toggle through the ACC settings you really notice the differencs in the damping settings as you will have a contant benchmark, then you can go off and play in the corners, my other suggestion is drive it like its not yours
Re: Blagged a Scirocco for the Day
Posted: Tue Apr 28, 2009 8:29 pm
by iAmbu
SHutch wrote:iambu wrote: It has a picture of a little person on it.....
Funny - I always thought it was a picture of a shock absorber
I think you're probably right! I'm sure you can see the human resemblance to it though!
Re: Blagged a Scirocco for the Day
Posted: Wed Apr 29, 2009 5:30 pm
by FunkyMunky
how've you managed to get it for a day? i can find no one willing to do a 24 hour test drive and really want one to be 100% sure the car is the right one and do a sample drive on my normal commute
Re: Blagged a Scirocco for the Day
Posted: Wed Apr 29, 2009 6:33 pm
by sir_rocco
JMcQueen wrote:I've managed to blag a Scirocco for the day tomorrow (expect an extended lunch hour!) and was just wondering if people had any suggestions of things I should try out in it. Also, how do you adjust the suspension between the three settings? wheres the switch (dont want to look like an idiot and have to ask the dealer).
Handbrake turns, doughnuts, J turns
Re: Blagged a Scirocco for the Day
Posted: Thu Apr 30, 2009 4:12 pm
by JMcQueen
FunkyMunky wrote:how've you managed to get it for a day? i can find no one willing to do a 24 hour test drive and really want one to be 100% sure the car is the right one and do a sample drive on my normal commute
My Golf was in for some work and they didnt have a courtesy car available until a week later so I asked if I could borrow their sales demonstrator for the day and they said yes. I had it from 9 until 5 so not a full 24 hour day if you like but a working one. Got a good run out in my lunch hour. The down side was it was a TDI the upside being the DSG. It was mainly the handling and the gearbox I wanted to check anyway.
Re: Blagged a Scirocco for the Day
Posted: Thu May 28, 2009 8:32 pm
by Greeton
JMcQueen wrote:The down side was it was a TDI the upside being the DSG. It was mainly the handling and the gearbox I wanted to check anyway.
How did you find the DSG on the TDI?
I have driven the 2.0 TSI with it and found it excellent, there were no TDI demonstrators around when I was looking for a run in one.
G.