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K1W1 Things I'd like to improve on... 30-03-2010, 05:08 PM
zach that my TSI is not an RS! ... 30-03-2010, 05:15 PM
spellbound Yes NVH bit noisy from the... 30-03-2010, 05:20 PM
BlackOctaviaRS DSG getting all confused and... 30-03-2010, 05:28 PM
Jake02 I LOVE my RS, but every car... 30-03-2010, 06:08 PM
woofy -I find the gearbox quite... 30-03-2010, 07:09 PM
Frufru Gripes 30-03-2010, 07:19 PM
4thchicken a few things - directional... 30-03-2010, 11:47 PM
K1W1 My intention with this thread... 31-03-2010, 06:51 AM
Graybags Rain sensing wipers coming on... 31-03-2010, 07:15 AM
Inego +1 for this - I was thinking... 31-03-2010, 07:51 AM
zach after refitting out car seat... 31-03-2010, 08:01 AM
Pietra after having a number of... 31-03-2010, 08:22 AM
Transporter May I ask, what car did you... 31-03-2010, 10:54 AM
aslsw Why are you telling me this... 31-03-2010, 11:43 AM
Inego It's actually got 3 speeds -... 31-03-2010, 12:08 PM
Calais After having driven some... 31-03-2010, 12:23 PM
GOLFBALLS Bahahahaa! I gotta say, I... 31-03-2010, 01:12 PM
spellbound Yes my feelings too... 31-03-2010, 03:06 PM
selurs Erm, I think you have missed... 31-03-2010, 03:13 PM
GOLFBALLS No, no I get it. It just... 31-03-2010, 09:10 PM
4thchicken Hence I kept my list to... 01-04-2010, 03:24 PM
wfdTamar There's two categories: 1.... 18-09-2012, 09:05 AM
selurs I don't really have any... 31-03-2010, 11:56 AM
K1W1 Yes I knew that I had... 31-03-2010, 09:22 PM
Transporter Well, there is not such a... 31-03-2010, 09:44 PM
gregozedobe Things I'd like to improve on... 01-04-2010, 01:49 AM
Transporter :thumb: that's the spirit,... 01-04-2010, 07:03 AM
BlackSuperb It all depends on which model... 01-04-2010, 11:54 AM
TuNeS This is going ot be a short... 01-04-2010, 01:34 PM
deeps My biggest concern is the... 05-06-2012, 04:56 PM
gldgti depends on your version of a... 05-06-2012, 05:08 PM
deeps Well I have a 118TSI my12... 05-06-2012, 05:14 PM
brad I have a 2007 118tsi. It... 05-06-2012, 08:28 PM
Mysticality MY12 vRS, with the Alcantara.... 06-06-2012, 06:04 PM
k_rider Coming from a MY02 Mitsubishi... 06-06-2012, 11:38 PM
woofy The tilt adjustment went away... 07-06-2012, 08:26 AM
gldgti mine came with an alloy spare... 07-06-2012, 06:25 PM
Dal My 2 cents on a MY12 118TSI... 21-06-2012, 07:53 PM
cbay Something I noticed recently... 19-07-2012, 08:46 AM
dArK5HaD0w on the otherhand if u had a... 19-07-2012, 12:56 PM
PassatB6 Only issue I can think of is... 20-07-2012, 10:19 AM
k_rider Yep, my MY11 RS wagon is the... 22-07-2012, 12:18 AM
Mysticality Mine, too. :/ Thanks for... 23-07-2012, 07:04 PM
Helldad Here's a very minor annoyance... 16-09-2012, 01:09 AM
Tigger I Would love them to offer... 16-09-2012, 09:59 AM
BottomScratcher There's lots to love about... 24-10-2012, 07:56 AM
candy_wagon I agree. I hate nothing more... 24-10-2012, 08:02 AM
brad More to the point, what if... 24-10-2012, 08:13 AM
woofy Are you for real, I've seen... 16-09-2012, 09:47 PM
gregozedobe I'm glad you are happy ;) ... 01-04-2010, 09:07 PM
K1W1 Well at least we vRS owners... 02-04-2010, 07:20 AM
Antiplastix WTF is maxidot... 03-04-2010, 07:43 AM
K1W1 The big display between the... 03-04-2010, 07:52 AM
Jake02 Having said how much better... 03-04-2010, 11:01 AM
aslsw Not having had the... 19-05-2010, 09:47 PM
dodgey There's too many things on... 20-05-2010, 12:32 AM
wombatoutofhell The main thing I complain... 20-05-2010, 10:36 PM
K1W1 I can't understand how mine... 21-05-2010, 06:55 AM
Transporter It is possible to adjust the... 21-05-2010, 08:47 AM
pwcar The auto lights are a bit... 21-05-2010, 12:22 PM
woofy The auto lights work... 21-05-2010, 01:22 PM
aslsw After having had the RS for a... 07-06-2010, 08:28 PM
K1W1 The little control switch on... 07-06-2010, 08:47 PM
dodgey Having come from a GTI, the... 07-06-2010, 09:22 PM
woofy I think when there is water... 08-06-2010, 08:00 PM
K1W1 That makes sense to me. I... 08-06-2010, 08:12 PM
Graybags I know on the rs it is... 31-03-2010, 09:36 AM
zach Thanks Graybags. Centre... 31-03-2010, 09:54 AM
BlackSuperb Things I'd like to improve on... 09-06-2010, 09:40 AM
canyonman Wiper Sensor 09-06-2010, 11:34 AM
Swuzzlebubble How Automatic Windshield... 09-06-2010, 03:35 PM
aslsw Here's one other thing that... 10-06-2010, 11:48 AM
Mysticality Only 118TSI/103TDI and Scout,... 19-09-2012, 11:59 AM
dArK5HaD0w the oz spec vRS does not... 19-09-2012, 12:49 PM
wfdTamar Two things I've noticed when... 23-09-2012, 03:23 PM
Tigger I would get rid of that... 23-09-2012, 06:26 PM
Mysticality I pull the pull strap, then... 24-10-2012, 08:23 PM
donweather That's exactly what the... 24-10-2012, 08:50 PM
Mysticality No vehicle I can remember... 25-10-2012, 12:15 AM
donweather Well, looks like the Tiguan... 25-10-2012, 11:27 AM
dArK5HaD0w c...even more reason not to... 25-10-2012, 11:56 AM
zei20t yeah I haven't had closing... 25-10-2012, 03:31 PM
k_rider So does my wagon! :P 09-11-2012, 11:26 PM
Tigger YESS!!!!!! ME TOOO!!!!! I... 26-10-2012, 08:08 AM
donweather I took the advice from the... 26-10-2012, 12:08 PM
Mickyb After reading this, I have... 08-11-2012, 11:58 AM
k_rider One nice touch I noticed in... 09-11-2012, 11:24 PM
Tigger I agree. The cruise set up... 10-11-2012, 06:53 AM
wfdTamar I wouldn't mind if they could... 23-01-2013, 01:30 PM
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  1. #1
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    The auto lights work perfectly on ours, never had an issue. The rain sensor works ok, i quite often find it won't come on if the windscreen is wet after staring though, works once i have flicked the lever off then on again though.

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    After having had the RS for a month now, a couple of things that are 'weird' spring to mind:

    - if the key is out of the ignition, there is no clock. On the Commodore, the time displays on the stereo all of the time,
    - if the key is on accessories, the stereo continues to work but the steering wheel controls don't. Again, on the Commodore the steering wheel controls (volume etc) work whenever the stereo works,
    - can't turn the stereo on from the steering wheel controls. On the Commodore ...
    - the stereo on know is furthest from the driver. Yes, I guess it is closest in left-hand drive form but couldn't they have swapped it over?
    - MDI fails intermittently with my iPhone, although my wife has 100% success with hers.
    - no rhyme or reason to the auto wipers. Sometimes they wipe twice with a mere drop on the windscreen, othertimes nothing happens as water streams off the side. Maybe I need to play a bit more. Also, it seems to need motion to start working, which means you need to flick the switch before you move off in really bad weather.

    All of these can be lived with, but after 8 years with the Commodore maybe I'm having a hard time letting go.

    Happy to be educated or told to go back and read the manual!
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    Quote Originally Posted by aslsw View Post
    - no rhyme or reason to the auto wipers. Sometimes they wipe twice with a mere drop on the windscreen, othertimes nothing happens as water streams off the side. Maybe I need to play a bit more. Also, it seems to need motion to start working, which means you need to flick the switch before you move off in really bad weather.
    The little control switch on top of the wiper stalk seems to adjust the sensitivity of the auto wipe (sort of like a variable intermittent control). The more to the left the more sensitive and more often the wipers work. Having said that the auto wipers do still seems to be a bit of a mystery and mine occasionally need a flick of the wiper stalk to get going.
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    Quote Originally Posted by K1W1 View Post
    Having said that the auto wipers do still seems to be a bit of a mystery and mine occasionally need a flick of the wiper stalk to get going.
    Having come from a GTI, the annoyances with the lights and the wipers seem normal to me. There are odd occasions when the lights come on when it's still bright, and when the wipers just ghost wipe, or not start at all. I have no answer to it, and take it as an idiosyncracy of the VAG electrics. A change in sensor for a friend's GTI seemed to help a lot, but I think our cars already have the new type of sensor..

    That said, if you use any additive or put anything on your windscreen (like Rain-X) the wipers tend to wipe more often when there no requirement to... (My experience anyway)

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    I think when there is water on the screen after it has been turned off, the car when its started "blanks" the sensor so it thinks the water there is background. The flicking off and on when moving probably makes it reset and then realise the water isn't background.....it never happens any other time for me, and that explanation makes the most sense to me, as I have seen other equipment do that.

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    That makes sense to me. I guess sometimes we give computers credit for being smarter than they actually are.
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    Yes, I'd thought that the sensor must sense "change", rather than the rain itself. So when you start the car with raindrops all over the windscreen there is no change and they don't start, but once you force one wipe they then sense the fresh raindrops and manage themselves.

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