How to disable side mirrors' synchronization on VW Golf MK4?

[dylan8]

Mine tilts both. Best feature, why do you want to disable it?

[Umai Naa!!]

I think now that he understands how and why, it'll be ok.

Maybe he'll learn to love it?

[Jimmyl]

Thanks for all your replies again. I've already got used to first adjust the right mirror then the left. However, it doesn't make sense to me when I actually just need to position right one. Really Weird design it is.

[RolfGolf]

Not a silly design, it's a feature - Synchronised mirror adjustment (Page 56 of your Controls and Equipment manual) ... Both mirrors can easily be adjusted for different drivers just by adjusting the left mirror. As mentioned above, adjust Right first, then Left - then when someone else drives the car, adjusting Right automatically adjusts the Left.

[adenda]

My car does this although it didn't for several months when I first bought it. Personally I don't like it and want to switch it off - did you ever get an answer how to do it?
Rather than people calling it a 'feature' I think it should be called an 'option'. Don't know how it started behaving this way but it just started doing it one day. I must have hit on one of VW's mysterious combinations of control movements to change it - like resyncing a key fob or clearing the service indicator.

[JustCruisn]

Best feature in the MK4 by far.
MK5 is the same, just wish is was auto for reverse.