Mk7 Golf R Discussion Thread

[sergioscirocco]

Congrats on your car, can I ask you how much does it cost the paint job and what products they use? or you are doing it yourself?

I pick up my new Golf R today - cant wait!!! I will give her the 3 stage clay, polish and wax on the weekend

[lawsy82]

Congrats on your car, can I ask you how much does it cost the paint job and what products they use? or you are doing it yourself?

Hi mate. I do it myself. You buy the kit on waxit.com. I've done this on two other cars and the results are Unbelivable. Takes around 5-6 hours but well worth it.. The clay takes all impurities out of the paint and I just use pour boys wax n polish...

[lawsy82]

Congrats on your car, can I ask you how much does it cost the paint job and what products they use? or you are doing it yourself?

I do cars as a side thing for $200. I'm happy to do your car if ur interested.

[sergioscirocco]

^ thanks for the offer But I already did my car with Swissvax products.

[Finance_Analyst]

I do cars as a side thing for $200. I'm happy to do your car if ur interested.

Will it still be $200 for my Rangie?

[lawsy82]

Will it still be $200 for my Rangie?

Haha, yes mate I done a BMW X5 last month - that was $250.00.. Took me around 5 hours but looked amazing and the client was over the moon

[lawsy82]

HELP - Golf R Drivers Assistance Package

Hi Guys,

I picked up my Golf R yesterday and the sales person knew nothing about the car so I was not really shown how everything works. I have a few Qs I am hoping someone can explain to me -

- Drivers Assistance Package. Can someone please tell me what exactly does it do and how do I make it work. I understand the car brakes when cars are in front of me or something?

- Does the R have that option where the car parks it self? I saw a lot of parking options in the manual but can not really work it out.

- finally, I saw there is 5 options eco,, normal, sport etc... In a brief summary, what are the main differences between each, and what will driving in sport mode do differently to normal?? What are you guys driving in mostly?

Thanks heaps for any help!!

Regards
Craig

[flight]

Hi Guys,

I picked up my Golf R yesterday and the sales person knew nothing about the car so I was not really shown how everything works. I have a few Qs I am hoping someone can explain to me -

- Drivers Assistance Package. Can someone please tell me what exactly does it do and how do I make it work. I understand the car brakes when cars are in front of me or something?

- Does the R have that option where the car parks it self? I saw a lot of parking options in the manual but can not really work it out.

- finally, I saw there is 5 options eco,, normal, sport etc... In a brief summary, what are the main differences between each, and what will driving in sport mode do differently to normal?? What are you guys driving in mostly?

Thanks heaps for any help!!

Regards
Craig

I am struggling to understand why you bought this car and, more particularly, why you ordered the Driver Assist Package when you don't know what it does. Can you enlighten me please?

[stedes]

Hi Craig

We just had a Golf with Driver Assist delivered. I assume it's similar to the features on the R so you should have Park Assist, Adaptive Cruise Control, Front Assist with Emergency Braking and driver mode selection (Sport/Normal/Eco).

In summary:
- ACC is a fancy cruise control which will accelerate and brake the car based on the distance of your car to the car in front (that you can set how far it is) and the maximum speed you have chosen. As you have DSG your car will stop completely in traffic if the car in front of you stops. If you then press resume (RES - Left of steering wheel buttons) your car will go again (I think - not sure - we have a manual car).
- Front assist and emergency braking will warn you and then put the brakes on if the car thinks you are about to hit something.
- Park assist helps you park the car. You activate it using the button on the right of the gearlever (one with P and a steering wheel icon on it). One press for parallel parking, second for 90 degree reverse) and then indicate to the side you want to park on. Do this BEFORE you go past the free spot and the car will measure.
- Driver fatigue - Will warn you if it thinks you're getting tired
- Collision thingy - Will close windows and sunroof, then crack windows open (to let airbag gases out) and pull the seat belts tight if it thinks you're about to have a crash.
- Eco/Normal/Sport: These change the behaviour of the throttle response/gearbox/AC and steering weight accordingly. Individual mode allows you to set each of those parameters differently.

Our sales person knew a fair bit, and so did I having done a fair bit of research beforehand. I'm not going to go into the reasons behind your purchase but my advice to you, based on my experience since getting the car is:

1. Read the manual
2. Read the manual again. Do one by one the systems till you understand the functions.
3. Start trying out the systems one by one in situations on the road where traffic allows:
For example:
- Try the Park Assist in a quiet car park or road for parallel parking
- Try the ACC on the road having set it at the highest distance and speed limit

Other Advice:
- The Front assist (emergency braking if you are about to hit something) is brutal so I don't recommend testing it. Turn it on, leave it on and believe me you will know when it works.
- Take your hands off the steering wheel when trying the auto parking as the movement of the steering wheel can be quite quick (and painful).
- Be patient. The cars have a lot of features that you will keep discovering as you drive it more.
- Read the manual....have I mentioned this before?

Hope this helps...

[andrew7]

Nice work Stedes (pretty sad the salesman didn't know his own product

One correction, no park assist with the R (not sure why, maybe because all R drivers are awesome

[stedes]

Nice work Stedes (pretty sad the salesman didn't know his own product

One correction, no park assist with the R (not sure why, maybe because all R drivers are awesome

Thanks and that's interesting about the R and Park Assist. VW of A are so funny with their speccing of the cars. In Europe and the UK all these systems can be had separately as well when ordering...as so many more things....sigh

[Blabba]

Must send a very big thanks out to @alanzidane for his help on my R today.
Have been doing some fine tuning, and managed to get the following done to the car.

Coming Home / Leaving lights enabled
Brake lights adjusted to be full with when pushing the pedal
Traffic enabled
Changed all globes in the car to LED. Glovebox, boot, two vanity lights for front.

Very quick, very helpful, and just gives the car that little more special feeling about it.
Now to convince myself I don't need the "R" logo projected from the door lights, that might be hard.

Might be seeing you soon alazidane.

Now just waiting to get my new front plates from Lakin.

Have also been pestering my dealership about getting voice enabled.
Got a mysterious call from their service department today that may have the issue getting resolved once and for all.

Will let you all know what I manage to get done.

Thanks,

B

[Mikey1]

I am struggling to understand why you bought this car and, more particularly, why you ordered the Driver Assist Package when you don't know what it does. Can you enlighten me please?

I totally agree. The Golf R is a driving enthusiast's car, but with a bit of spruiking by a good salesman, before you know it, they've signed up an unsuspecting customer with all options ticked. Job well done!

Thanks and that's interesting about the R and Park Assist. VW of A are so funny with their speccing of the cars. In Europe and the UK all these systems can be had separately as well when ordering...as so many more things....sigh

There was no Park Assist on the Mk6 R either, and no Park Assist on Mk7 R in South Africa and UK - all right hand drive markets. However, Park Assist is available on Audi S3 as standard equipment, so clearly Audi Australia thought it was a useful feature that it wanted all its S3 customers to have. IIRC, lawsy2 was seriously looking at the S3 before deciding the R was better value or more affordable for him.

[DrK]

Must send a very big thanks out to @alanzidane for his help on my R today.
Have been doing some fine tuning, and managed to get the following done to the car.

Coming Home / Leaving lights enabled
Brake lights adjusted to be full with when pushing the pedal
Traffic enabled
Changed all globes in the car to LED. Glovebox, boot, two vanity lights for front.

Very quick, very helpful, and just gives the car that little more special feeling about it.
Now to convince myself I don't need the "R" logo projected from the door lights, that might be hard.

Might be seeing you soon alazidane.

Now just waiting to get my new front plates from Lakin.

Have also been pestering my dealership about getting voice enabled.
Got a mysterious call from their service department today that may have the issue getting resolved once and for all.

Will let you all know what I manage to get done.

Thanks,

B

Got a link to the globes you used mate?

R projected from door lights... What!?! Show me!

Have you changed your static cornering lights too?

Keep me posted on voice yeah! Good work!

[Blabba]

Ummmmmm, no. thats an alanzidane question. Can find out for you though.

"R" logo projected from the bottom of the door so when you open the door, it projects a 20x20cm image onto the ground. Only seen a photo at this stage and don't have one myself, photo that is. But very tempted.

Didn't change the static cornering lights. Didn't know that was possible. Is it a self service job and how much? link maybe?

Will keep the whole forum posted on the voice thing. If all goes according to planed I will have the answer on how to get it done. Then again, it could all go to **** and I will be back to square one