New Passat 132 TSI Comfortline

[momall]

Gday Folks,
Picked up the new 132TSI Comfortline with R-Line and Luxury Pack yesterday. Colour is Pure White. Dropped off the B7 TSI Passat at the same time.

First Impressions at the dealer.:-
Car looked good. Well presented. A shout out to the Sutherland Volkswagen team for Great service.
Mags were different from what I expected as I had seeing My16 cars with R-Line wheels. MY16 has the Verona wheel whereas MY17 models have the Monterey wheel.

Driving the cars back to back:-
The B8 with R pack rides really well. I did not find the ride hard, had seen a comment or two on this somewhere else. Engine is smooth and power delivery is more refined compared to the B7. I think the electronic differential? makes a difference to keep the car composed on more spirited take offs.
Loving the new Infotainment unit. A huge stepup from the previous RNS series. But still no spoken street names?
The new active display is pretty cool.

Next steps
Have just fired off a message to Frank@Definitive to get the Opticoat details and appointment locked in.
A thorough read of the owners manual to figure out how things work.
If anyone has any questions or suggestions feel free to reply.

[SciroccoJ]

Well done!! Congrat on the purchase!

[Janko]

The car is pretty good at recognizing speed signs along the road and adjusting speed up or down if you are on cruise control

[sclyde2]

i didn't realise that it had that feature in oz. what makes you think it has it here? is it picking up the speed limit from non-standard / temporary speed limit signs, such as at road works?

[momall]

I don't believe the speed adjustment on cruise is from speed signs been detected. its the adaptive cruise control which tracks vehicles in front and accelerates / decelerates based on the car in front slowing / speeding up. From my understanding speed sign recognition is turned off in Australia

[momall]

Found an easy way to update the maps on the*navigation. Used a Volkswagen app called DiscoverCare from: Discover Nav Pro : Navigation And Entertainment Systems : Volkswagen UK. A much smaller download and faster update process. Inserted the card in my surface book. Formatted as exFat. The DiscoverCare software downloaded*the Australia image of around 800MB.
Inserted the SD card in SD card slot 2 and ran an update from the nav unit. took about 15*minutes as I drove for the update to complete. Went from 0058 to 0062...

[Mr_206]

So i take it its free to update the maps in Aus?

[momall]

Yes. There was no cost on the Volkswagen website for downloading the maps.

[Mr_206]

So this can be done each year?

[cgorac]

I'm looking at purchasing either a Jetta 155 TSI highline sports or the Passat 132 TSI comfort line with R-Line Pack which way should i go?