RN510 radio at night

[blanch0b]

hiya all
im waiting for my mk6 gti (due next month) and just wondering in your experiences is the rn510 touch screen really bright and distracting at night? i take it theres brightness settings though in all the videos i see at night the screen looks really bright and distracting.........

[Zaul]

There's no problem with the unit at night. I don't find it distracting at all. If anything I find my self more distracted by my fuel consumption on the MFD!

[Maverick]

hiya all
im waiting for my mk6 gti (due next month) and just wondering in your experiences is the rn510 touch screen really bright and distracting at night? i take it theres brightness settings though in all the videos i see at night the screen looks really bright and distracting.........

Believe it or not but Volkswagen use dimming at night of the interior instruments including the head units so they don't blind or distract you. In fact I can't think of a car I've been over the last 30 years that hasn't had dimming of interior instruments and head units.

[Corey_R]

hiya all
im waiting for my mk6 gti (due next month) and just wondering in your experiences is the rn510 touch screen really bright and distracting at night? i take it theres brightness settings though in all the videos i see at night the screen looks really bright and distracting.........

Crappy video cameras (or camera operators) can't take into account the fact that the majority of the "scene" is dark whereas a very small portion of it is bright. Human eyes do a much better job of this - although the reason they say to not watch TV in the dark, and yet we watch movies in the dark, is due to the % of the field of vision that the different screens occupy...

Anyway - don't trust crappy videos - the RNS510 at night is fine

[Tux]

I've experienced no problems at all at night with the sat nav on. There's an option for day or night scheme and I prefer the day colours and even then there's no brightness problem..

[MkVIGTI]

The RNS unit actually dims itself when it's dark, which is rather clever. I have also found that the speedo will change its brightness according to the amount of light in the cabin. Hope this helps.

[elisiX]

You can also simply select from the onscreen menu to turn off the display while keeping the radio, nav, media playing.

[mr gee]

brightness can be adjusted in setup

[logger]

Believe it or not but Volkswagen use dimming at night of the interior instruments including the head units so they don't blind or distract you.

Love the sarcasm - however VW did not get it right with the RCD310 or whatever you call the unit that is in my car. The rest of the instruments all dim satisfactorily. The head unit dims several magnitudes but not sufficiently. At full dim it IS distracting at night. I wish there was an option to blank the screen (without turning the unit OFF) until I interacted with it, in the same manner as occurs with the climate controls displays there upon.

[Karlosovic]

The RNS unit actually dims itself when it's dark, which is rather clever. I have also found that the speedo will change its brightness according to the amount of light in the cabin. Hope this helps.

Speaking of things that change according to conditions, my Tom Tom speaks directions louder at high speeds to compensate for increased noise.
In my previous car, this generally went unnoticed
However my new Golf does such a good job of insulating against those noises that the different volume from the Tom Tom is very noticable

[Corey_R]

Does it have an adjustable sensitivity, like the Golf's stereo's speed sensitive volume does?

[blutopless2]

i was told on the weekend when we picked up our new Tig that the RNS510 does have speed sensitive volume.

The brightness on ours is not a problem at night. If it were to become distracting i would turn off the display.

[blanch0b]

thanks guys for all this advice - uve appeased my concern!

this is my first VW and first new car in my life - thought i cant go wrong with a VW GTI...

[Corey_R]

And you've already put the APR RSC exhaust on it?

[blanch0b]

haha not quite yet....

about to fork out alot of money just buying the car little own performance enhancements... (unless u know someone who will do it for free?!)