Golf R Observations and Questions

[jamesatfish]

Funnily enough I think the exact opposite - on the lowest setting the AC blows way too hard and I have to turn the vents away to keep comfortable once the temperature reaches the desired level.

To reply to my own post - I've found that after fitting the Mk7 Climatronic unit the lowest AC setting is now much more to my liking. It's actually a gentle breeze rather than just a downrated hurricane blast as it was with the original unit - much better.

[AdamD]

These were only available on the R36 and US R32 from memory as ours came with the Zolder wheel.

The R36 size is 18x8; the R32 size is 18x7.5. In Australia, MY06-07 R32s had the Zolder, and MY08-09 got the Omanyt.

Have you tried the centre cap delete

Hmm, I should give that a go. I'd need to find a decent centre cap though, and I don't have an R (and don't believe in "badge engineering").

[tonymy01]

Made an observation today, that may be a known to others (esp DSG drivers) but not to me (manual Golf R). When you are driving down the F3(now M1) and some moron decides to sit inches from your rear bumper despite being in a 3 car queue cruising over the limit slowly trying to overtake, don't brake while you still have your foot on the throttle, the car shuts down the engine power and (I didn't wait long enough to test further) the only way to get power back again is to take your foot off the throttle and put it back on...
The inches turned into cms when all I was trying to do was give the moron a brake light warning.
I did briefly test again in a clear section just to see if I wasn't going silly, and definitely despite taking your foot back off the brake pedal, the engine RPM keeps dropping until you take your foot off the throttle and put it back on...very strange!

[Lucas_R]

^ no left foot braking baby. So annoying......and dangerous. Apparently it can be removed via tuning.

[Ryan_R]

Safety feature - think along the lines of that Ford that was stuck on cruise control on the freeway a few years back, and another similar incident in the USA.

Plus that means old people can't drive around with their brakelights on constantly

[Guy_H]

Left foot braking is standard on all Golf R files from APR (if its of any help to you) - it's quite a common request for our customers.

[tonymy01]

It was more just a surprise,I was pushing the throttle harder and going nowhere and thinking all I wanted to do was give the guy some brake light, not fully brake test him at over 110km/hr... it really did take me by surprise when I began slowing unexpectedly with foot on throttle (mashing it to the floor to try to speed up) and foot now *off* the brake... it makes you wonder if some of these "my VW rapidly slowed" are where people just managed to press both pedals. It is completely unexpected that once you take your foot off the brake that it doesn't all go back to normal!

Just lucky for me a guy in the middle lane was trapped and wanting to join the fast lane, so the twit behind me perhaps assumed I was slowing to let the car in rather than being a complete d#ck to him (despite him being one to me, could see him doing hand gestures before all that, and I gave the "wtf can I do,i am stuck like you are behind slower cars, hang on a minute"...once he got passed us (by doing about 140km/hr cutting on the slow lane across Brooklyn Bridge) he proceeded to sit inches off the next lot of cars bumpers also...by this time there were trucks all over the place and other twits doing 105 in the fast lane, so he wasn't getting very far except threatening everyone he was behind.

[Frazza]

Its a simple enough fix if you don't want it, most tuning companies can disable that function but i guess at least you know what it is now

[MadWorm]

Left foot braking is standard on all Golf R files from APR (if its of any help to you) - it's quite a common request for our customers.

I tried it tonight on the way home from the gym with my APR Stage 1 tuned R and it worked exactly as Guy_H says. I'd never noticed...

[R36FTW]

Took the plunge and traded my R36 for a candy white MY12 R with leather and black 19's and a couple other minor options. Really nice little cars which I have a lot to learn about. Think I'll be reading through the rest of this thread for the next 6 months