Mk7 Golf TSI & TDI - Observations and Questions

[GeckoZAO]

3K is nearly impossible to avoid, and actually silly, because you will put more strain on the engine trying to drive it in higher gears(to avoid revving) than just letting it freely rev. Just don't rev the tits off it at full throttle all the time for about 1000km and you should be fine. Avoiding full throttle in a turbo car will avoid big boost, which will reduce the potential for troubles in a minimally worn in engine.

sorry for being silly...just learnt a lesson.
but what i found is my passat usually goes around between 1-3k, sometimes 3k+, and rarely 4k. maybe im too soft on the throttle.

[tonymy01]

The dsg in auto mode does that I suppose, but what if you need to just slightly push it to get up a hill, much better to rev in 4th than strain at 2.5K in 6th up there.

[GeckoZAO]

The dsg in auto mode does that I suppose, but what if you need to just slightly push it to get up a hill, much better to rev in 4th than strain at 2.5K in 6th up there.

yea agree. but still pretty happy with the dsg on passat so far.

[Diesel_vert]

Question for you all. Dealer said the new base Golf I picked up didn't need to be run in at all. "Feel free to take it to the red line" he said, "the engine has already been run-in at the factory before installation".

Is this true of new cars these days, or is he fibbing/has no idea what he's saying?

I would refer to the owners manual in the first instance, rather than the salesperson.

If it were my car, I wouldn't purposely use full throttle or take the engine to the redline if I didn't have to (during break-in).

I'm taking it for a long drive into country NSW this weekend, and would love to be able to use the cruise control.

Irrespective of whether you engage cruise control or not, you should aim to vary the engine speed and load, as this promotes a more uniform wear surface between the piston ring and cylinder wall.

[AdamD]

Question for you all. Dealer said the new base Golf I picked up didn't need to be run in at all. "Feel free to take it to the red line" he said, "the engine has already been run-in at the factory before installation".

The engine will have been run on a bench for a few minutes when first built, to perform the initial bed-in and check everything is working correctly. Whilst it's better than nothing, this is not a dyno run-in by any means.

Which is where the many and varied opinions ref run-in technique come in.

[DV52]

I sent an email to VWA regarding voice control. This is the email response that I received.

Thank you for your e-mail. We do apologise for the delay in response.

In regards to the voice control in your vehicle, it is not able to be connected.

It was originally advertised before the release of the car, however these brochures should have been pulled off the shelves in our dealers.

It has instructions in your user manual, this is because it is a generic manual also for our European models.

The Volkswagen factory did not include the function in our models that were ordered for our market.

We currently are developing a way to install it as an accessory function with our cars, however there is a little way to go before it is available in the market.

We do apologise for this.

Kindest Regards

Jdbrown: What was your response to the email? Are you going to accept what VW Aust is saying? My view is that I bought my Highline based on the material that VW released at the time. It said that the car that I bought had vocxie control and I expected that Voice conrol would be delivered. It's not a big issue, but I think that the principle is important.

[tonymy01]

sorry for being silly...

Actually not so silly.... sorry about that. I just kept my eye on my tacho while taking it pretty easy driving home from work yesterday (5km run so car is pretty much cold the entire journey), and the only time I went over 3K was to get the car back up to speed when a car in front of me turned off in a side street (but my drive has no hills, if it had hills, revving is better than straining in higher gears to get the car up to speed up a hill).

[GeckoZAO]

Actually not so silly.... sorry about that. I just kept my eye on my tacho while taking it pretty easy driving home from work yesterday (5km run so car is pretty much cold the entire journey), and the only time I went over 3K was to get the car back up to speed when a car in front of me turned off in a side street (but my drive has no hills, if it had hills, revving is better than straining in higher gears to get the car up to speed up a hill).

ok...ver 2: sorry for being not so silly. sorry for being a bit silly. LOL
i will be taking my car to yarra ranges and dandenongs, hilly roads!

[AJD]

I suspect those brochures are still being used and they do clearly state voice control for navigation and radio functions. How many months can they use the excuse of oversight to get away with false advertising.
My car had a build date of December 2012, the brochure I have says it is correct as at March 2013 and was emailed to me by the dealer in June 2013. Surely 6 months was more than sufficient for VWA to get their act together and resolve this issue.

[DV52]

I suspect those brochures are still being used and they do clearly state voice control for navigation and radio functions. How many months can they use the excuse of oversight to get away with false advertising.
My car had a build date of December 2012, the brochure I have says it is correct as at March 2013 and was emailed to me by the dealer in June 2013. Surely 6 months was more than sufficient for VWA to get their act together and resolve this issue.

AJD: Very true. As I said in a previous post, my advice from VW Australia is that VW Germany have just recently released a fix for the Voice Control function for the Golf Highline series.
However, VW Aust. will not release it to the dealers until they test the fix. I have no idea what value VW Australia adds to the process through this additioanl testing program (I would have thought that all the necessary tests would have been conducted by VW Germany).
But we must all wait until the Australian protocols have been completed. Go figure (Das Clunk)!