Mk7 Golf TSI & TDI - Observations and Questions

[DV52]

A point of clarification for you DV52: The dealer quote was supplied by Lambertia. My response to that quote was in complete agreement with you. Lambertia's dealer was inventing a licence fee on the run or just spouting nonsense.

Also, fyi flight is very definitely male.

MY new Golf TDI should reach me within two weeks. Whoo Hooo!

Flight: my error. Appology for the attribution to the wrong author (and to you, Lambertia). Also didn't mean to question your gender (just a point of political correctness). I'm male too - at least I was the last time that I looked!

It's been a long wait for your TDI. Hope that it's all that you expect (I'm sure that it will be)

[flight]

Flight: my error. Appology for the attribution to the wrong author (and to you, Lambertia). Also didn't mean to question your gender (just a point of political correctness). I'm male too - at least I was the last time that I looked!

It's been a long wait for your TDI. Hope that it's all that you expect (I'm sure that it will be)

No problem DV52. I have no claim to being error free. I thought I was wrong once, but I was mistaken.


Yes, it's been a huge wait of four months and I have tracked the car, or rather the ship, around the world until it landed in Brisbane. I'm glad I ordered the Driver Assist, which has received very good reports. Also the leather in "Shetland", which has since been discontinued.

I'm certainly not suggesting lambertia's dealer was correct, but a quick read of SUNA's website indicates licensing agreements and they obviously need to generate income from somewhere.

What if it is not a case of VW disabling traffic updates but rather the supplier doing it. Based on veew's correspondance with Customer Care it looks like VW and the supplier - SUNA? - don't have a service contract and once SUNA has enough of supplying free traffic updates, they might disable the code all together.

Dutch77 and Lupo - There is much in what you say, but I think VW, or the parent company would already be paying license fees to SUNA for features they include with various models. As far as SUNA's costs are concerned, the transmission of traffic messages to one car would be the same as transmission to all cars. I can't really see that VW would disable a feature that they have, albeit inadvertently, delivered to Golf owners. Although the feature isn't promised in brochures, neither does the brochure say that the feature is not included. To withdraw the feature would attract really bad publicity which they certainly don't need, after the DSG image problems.

[Dutch77]

Agreed, the SUNA site indicates some units/apps require annual subscriptions and others have lifetime supply.

My understanding is traffic hasn't been enabled on most VWs currently, but some people have been able to activate it either on their unit directly or via VCDS tweaks. I'd assume the ability to do this will continue, someone else had suggested that it might be disabled on service update. Time will tell.

[b c]

Disappointed that it is not turned on by VW, especially as you can get a car GPS with lifetime live traffice updates for <$150

[flight]

Disappointed that it is not turned on by VW, especially as you can get a car GPS with lifetime live traffice updates for <$150

I am hearing that some cars are being delivered right now with traffic already turned on.

[lambertia]

My car was delivered on Monday. The traffic and RDS are on but I don't get any updates. I'll play more over the weekend.

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[stedes]

Hi guys

Got our car today. TP was off but easily turned on in the settings. When you press the traffic button the updates screen comes up but says "no reports". Will wait a bit and see if I'm on the right station on the radio as well. There was a list of stations somewhere...

[DV52]

Hi guys

Got our car today. TP was off but easily turned on in the settings. When you press the traffic button the updates screen comes up but says "no reports". Will wait a bit and see if I'm on the right station on the radio as well. There was a list of stations somewhere...

My car was delivered on Monday. The traffic and RDS are on but I don't get any updates. I'll play more over the weekend.

Stedes,lambertia: I had to do the VCDS tweak to get TMC to work on my Golf. But I don't have to be tuned into the SUNA station on the radio to get traffic reports. The two functions appear to be completely separate. Reception for the "Traffic" button seems to be automatically picked-up via the correct station regardless of where the "Radio" is tuned (which kinda makes sense).

Are both of you sure that you have TMC activated? I ask because before I did the tweak, I enabled TP and RDS on the radio setup and I got the word "TP" to show on the top line of the screen, but when I pressed the TRAFFIC button, I got the same message as you have quoted and no reports. I had to enter the magic number 1024 into the correct adaptation channel (with VCDS cable) before I got any reports.

[stedes]

Stedes,lambertia: I had to do the VCDS tweak to get TMC to work on my Golf. But I don't have to be tuned into the SUNA station on the radio to get traffic reports. The two functions appear to be completely separate. Reception for the "Traffic" button seems to be automatically picked-up via the correct station regardless of where the "Radio" is tuned (which kinda makes sense).

Are both of you sure that you have TMC activated? I ask because before I did the tweak, I enabled TP and RDS on the radio setup and I got the word "TP" to show on the top line of the screen, but when I pressed the TRAFFIC button, I got the same message as you have quoted and no reports. I had to enter the magic number 1024 into the correct adaptation channel (with VCDS cable) before I got any reports.

Thanks DV...I thought it would be that. I don't have a VCDS cable yet so can't check. If anyone could confirm voice control via the cable as well I would order one straight away but as it is I'm still thinking about it.

[lambertia]

Stedes,lambertia: I had to do the VCDS tweak to get TMC to work on my Golf. But I don't have to be tuned into the SUNA station on the radio to get traffic reports. The two functions appear to be completely separate. Reception for the "Traffic" button seems to be automatically picked-up via the correct station regardless of where the "Radio" is tuned (which kinda makes sense).

Are both of you sure that you have TMC activated? I ask because before I did the tweak, I enabled TP and RDS on the radio setup and I got the word "TP" to show on the top line of the screen, but when I pressed the TRAFFIC button, I got the same message as you have quoted and no reports. I had to enter the magic number 1024 into the correct adaptation channel (with VCDS cable) before I got any reports.

I agree, I think its disabled on the VCDS. As for the TP, the manual says that it will continue to receive TP even if you're not tuned to a TP station. I'm not sure how that do that if you on a non-TP FM station but if you're on anything I guess the FM receiver is active.

It's not a heatbreaker for me as I'll probably continue to use my phone.

The only thing I really would like the car to do (which I don't think it can) is activate google now/siri when I press the voice button. But alas!

Thanks for your help.