Mk7 Golf TSI & TDI - Observations and Questions

[NTPete]

Pollen filter is every 2 years in your service book. You're better off getting one off ebay for $20 and DIYing every 12 months as they become pretty ugly. Get the carbon impregnated jobbie.

First brake fluid is at 3 years and every 2 years after that - again, it's in your service book.

SparesBox is the place to go for all of the Man Hummel filters that VW use as original equipment. https://www.sparesbox.com.au/

[MikeB7]

Hi guys, does anyone know how to disassemble the armrest in MK7 ? I think a coin has fallen in behind the moveable blind and it is blocking half way :/ not sure if there is a way to dissassemble just a part of it or the whole unit has to be removed ? No one has given me any hints so far.Searched the internet wasn't able to find anything at all.Thanks

[Valvster]

Can't help with any dismantling hints but I just had mine fixed as a a warranty problem.
Service advisor reckons they have had a few were they come off the tracks. Mine had been in the open position
since I got the car Jan2014 and just couldn't close it a couple of months ago.

Valvster

[MikeB7]

Thx for the reply.Mine is opening and closing fine.But half way is getting blocked as if something was blocking it.My car is out of warranty already so it will be too expensive to take it to the desler's.I have to figure our another way.

[mattaus]

OK, please tell me how I am being and idiot. I have a Mk7 GTI full keyless entry; so the little touch panels on the door handles.

If I touch the panels while the car is unlocked, the car locks. It works as expected. What is supposed to also work is that touching the panels when the car is locked should unlock it. My success rate with this is about 50%. What seems to happen is that I touch the panel, and even though the car is DEFINITELY locked, it appears to try locking it again (I get the softer lock sound). I can do this 4 or 5 times and it never unlocks. I then press the unlock button on my keys and it unlocks. Sometimes the touch to unlock does work, but it's VERY inconsistent. I've even noticed over the last couple days that it doesn't respond to an unlock touch at all, which has me wondering if there is something wrong with my car.

Does anyone else have this feature and if so, how consistent is it? Or is there a trick to this that I am missing?

[agentthumb]

OK, please tell me how I am being and idiot. I have a Mk7 GTI full keyless entry; so the little touch panels on the door handles.

If I touch the panels while the car is unlocked, the car locks. It works as expected. What is supposed to also work is that touching the panels when the car is locked should unlock it. My success rate with this is about 50%. What seems to happen is that I touch the panel, and even though the car is DEFINITELY locked, it appears to try locking it again (I get the softer lock sound). I can do this 4 or 5 times and it never unlocks. I then press the unlock button on my keys and it unlocks. Sometimes the touch to unlock does work, but it's VERY inconsistent. I've even noticed over the last couple days that it doesn't respond to an unlock touch at all, which has me wondering if there is something wrong with my car.

Does anyone else have this feature and if so, how consistent is it? Or is there a trick to this that I am missing?

I believe you Grab the handle to unlock the car, touching the panel only locks


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[brad]

I believe you Grab the handle to unlock the car, touching the panel only locks


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We've had 3 cars with keyless entry - all the same. Grab handle to unlock. press button/pad to unlock.

[VRJ]

Hi there Matt. Agent & Brad are correct in that the handle is grabbed to open the door. I imagine the sensor for opening is on the inside of the door handle that is pulled.

Dont feel like an idiot. I had the same problem and returned the car to the dealership and asked the workshop foreman what the problem was. Would you believe he could not figure it out, which I found embarrassing for the dealership. I mean the foreman, really? The way I figured it out was a Google search that lead to a YouTube demo.

[mattaus]

I swear I've done that before, but my testing about 10 minutes proves you are all indeed correct. As if there was ever any doubt

[Ralfi]

I think I read somewhere that by touching the notch on the outside of the door handle of an already locked vehicle, engages a dead-lock?

Which didn't really make sense to me as I would've thought the dead-lock should be activated on the initial lock.

To the car manual!

How's it all going anyway, mattaus? Guess all's great since I haven't noticed you here as often?