Mk7 Golf GTI Discussion Thread

**Mikey1** · 27-06-2014, 05:02 PM

Originally Posted by Dutch77

The satnav is a horrible little unit, about the only people who wont hate it might be a first time user who has never had a screen before.

That would probably be me, coming off a Mk5 Golf, fitted with a RCD300 unit, which has a small back and white screen, displaying only AM/FM radio stations, but it does have a 6-disc CD changer, which has sadly for me been dropped on the Mk7 Golf.

**franjae** · 27-06-2014, 05:08 PM

Yes, I'm with you on that irossiter. Voice control is the way to go. Trying to type while the car is bouncing around doesn't work for me!

Even if the German lady can be a bit long winded at times, lol!

**Dutch77** · 27-06-2014, 06:04 PM

Originally Posted by Mikey1

.. but it does have a 6-disc CD changer, which has sadly for me been dropped on the Mk7 Golf.

What are CDs?!

Originally Posted by franjae

Yes, I'm with you on that irossiter. Voice control is the way to go. Trying to type while the car is bouncing around doesn't work for me!

Even if the German lady can be a bit long winded at times, lol!

Have you tried an accent, like 'taken me to vork at zee schtore'?

With apologies to any Germans, anyone who knows me knows I am a fan of many things German!

**i286** · 27-06-2014, 10:12 PM

Even if the German lady can be a bit long winded at times, lol

I don't think she is a German. Firstly I thought she is from New Zealand then South Africa. After a while I got used to it and occasionally give her a "compliment".
At one stage I chose American from the menu and all I got was American dialect but still the same appalling pronunciation of the streets and numbers.
This is not up to a German pedantic mentality and a car with many titles, one of them being World Car Of The Year. I also believe that someone from Wolfsburg is reading owners comments on various forums around the world and somehow am surprised that there is no action on this from them. In Australia alone there are thousands of complaints about this and yet nothing was done.

**lambertia** · 27-06-2014, 11:28 PM

I guess they don't do anything because once people find out they already own the car. It probably doesn't lose them any sales. That's the bottom line.

**Brendan_A** · 28-06-2014, 12:26 AM

Anyone else been caught out with pulling the gearshift back into sports then pushing it forward thinking your putting it back into drive but your actually putting it into neutral?

First time I've tried sports mode in the mk7 tonight. Different to my mk5 Jetta and the mk6 GTIs I've driven.

**DoggieHowser** · 28-06-2014, 12:50 AM

Originally Posted by Brendan_A

Anyone else been caught out with pulling the gearshift back into sports then pushing it forward thinking your putting it back into drive but your actually putting it into neutral?

First time I've tried sports mode in the mk7 tonight. Different to my mk5 Jetta and the mk6 GTIs I've driven.

I've preferred the Sports mode toggle in the Mk7 to the S-position on the gear lever on the older Golf DSGs. Just takes a bit of getting used to but I think the new way is more intuitive.

**Matt P** · 28-06-2014, 10:42 AM

Originally Posted by Brendan_A

Anyone else been caught out with pulling the gearshift back into sports then pushing it forward thinking your putting it back into drive but your actually putting it into neutral?

First time I've tried sports mode in the mk7 tonight. Different to my mk5 Jetta and the mk6 GTIs I've driven.

Yeah i've done that in the past. Used to pulling it down to cycle between the 2 now.

No need for a 6cd changer, throw a 64/128gb SD card into the spare SD slot and rip everything

**i286** · 28-06-2014, 12:05 PM

[QUOTE=Brendan_A;1067343]Anyone else been caught out with pulling the gearshift back into sports then pushing it forward thinking your putting it back into drive but your actually putting it into neutral?

First time I've tried sports mode in the mk7 tonight. Different to my mk5 Jetta and the mk6 GTIs I've driven.[/QUOTE

I did it once, about a week into ownership of the car. I use sports mode quite frequently and like it but interestingly found myself not using tiptronic at all. Where I live roads are mainly straight and no hills in sight so 'D' or 'S' is right up to the task.
In my opinion Volkswagen chose wrong orientation for their tiptronic function, it should be the other way around. If there were paddles on the steering wheel I would be using them daily.

Edit: Need to learn how to use quote thingy.

**Dutch77** · 28-06-2014, 01:13 PM

Originally Posted by i286

I did it once, about a week into ownership of the car. I use sports mode quite frequently and like it but interestingly found myself not using tiptronic at all. Where I live roads are mainly straight and no hills in sight so 'D' or 'S' is right up to the task.
In my opinion Volkswagen chose wrong orientation for their tiptronic function, it should be the other way around. If there were paddles on the steering wheel I would be using them daily.

Assume you're running a 90 or 103. Must admit I've never driven one yet so haven't seen whether S mode on these engines is more usable.

In the GTI, S mode is reserved for a country blast, it's pretty unusable around town unless you're a total hoon. Unfortunately as per Mk6 D is a little lethargic at times, although they've definitely improved it since Mk6 particularly in low speed manoeuvres where it will actually consider first gear sometimes.

Sadly I don't get to use S enough at the minute so haven't noticed an issue.

Edit: Need to learn how to use quote thingy.

Agreed.

(Just need to add the ] after end quote above)