MFD says "DING"

[BarneyBoy]

Yep Clarkson's a tool sometimes.. Hey man good to see a fellow TSi'er on the forum (with DSG), in white too which looks sweet. The car was a little ripper in the cold air this morning....

For those who missed JC's inept column:

"...so I started to play with all the buttons. There’s one, near the gearlever, which is marked with the letter W. Push it and a small light illuminates, but that’s all.

All the way to Salisbury I prodded it, trying to find out what it did, until I became so desperate I actually pulled over and broke the first rule of manliness. I opened the glove box and — take a deep breath — took out the handbook.

You want to know something weird? There was no mention of the W button in there. I think it’s just been fitted to keep people occupied on long journeys..."

"...and then there was the truly woeful engine. It’s all very well having direct petrol injection and a supercharger to fill in the black hole while the turbo girds its loins: this is clever, but my God it’s jerky.

In the GT (power's) delivered with the smoothness of someone in a wheelchair falling down some stairs.

And where’s the power? If you’re going to stick GT badges on a car and claim it delivers 168bhp, then kindly give us some oomph to match. Time and again I had to change down on hills, and once, with my foot welded to the floor, I was overtaken by a Mercedes van.

The worst thing, though, is that the GT TSI fails to do any of the things that you might reasonably expect from a car. It doesn’t make the journey fun. It doesn’t isolate you from the sensation of travel. And it isn’t especially cheap. By the time I arrived in Falmouth I was fairly ready to push it into the sea.

The following day, after a seven-hour drive back to London, up the M5 and along the M4, I decided that it was one of the five worst cars I’d ever driven."

RTFM, Jeremy!

[CL455]

i always hear the ding here in canberra.... every morning when u start the car ..... frequent thing already...

[tdi guy]

The following day, after a seven-hour drive back to London, up the M5 and along the M4, I decided that it was one of the five worst cars I’d ever driven."

RTFM, Jeremy!

Funnily enough, in all JC's reviews of the MKV Golf for his newspaper column (GT Sport 1.4TSI, 1.9TDI), he hated all of them (he grudgingly liked the MKIV R32). And on Topgear he loves the MKV GTI (which is why his review of the MKV GT Sport seems weird, given the overall similarities. For example, he hates the ride comfort in the TSI but loves the comfort in the GTI - go figure...I think his problem with the 'W' and lack of power coloured his whole review).

Anyway, lets move on...

TG

[Logzy]

Yesterday morning mine went down to 1.5 degrees about 3 mins after i drove out of my garage. Freezing.

[Unbelievable]

Yesterday morning mine went down to 1.5 degrees about 3 mins after i drove out of my garage. Freezing.

I was out camping at that time...

[Mr Messy]

Slightly OT but in April I went on Honeymoon in New Zealand. We hired a late model Liberty with touchscreen MFD, climate control etc.

The temp reading was a joke the whole time we were there. It showed between 12.5 and 14 degrees during the entire trip.

THIS INCLUDES BEING PARKED WITHIN A FEW HUNDRED METRES OF A GLACIER AT 2AM.

On one day the telly said we had a minimum of 2 deg and a max of 7. The temp didn't budge from 13.5 degrees.

We thought it was purty funny.