Things you don't like about your MK7

[Eaglehawk]

10 spokes. 10 gaps.

6 surfaces per spoke, 2 surfaces per gap.

80 surfaces per wheel. 4 wheels. 320 surfaces to clean.

ARGH!!!

[Brew69]

Drivers side wipers. Anyone had a result with this?

[pologti18t]

Drivers side wipers. Anyone had a result with this?

http://www.vwwatercooled.com/forums/f197/front-wipers-87634.html

[Baz 55]

I test drove a DSG 90 TSI and it had the same pause
I picked up my Comfortline 90 TSI with DSG and it has it too. The dealer said all the DSG s have that pause - to do with the "manual" gearbox engaging the engine. If you look closely on take off it starts in gear 1 but goes to 2 instantly, that seems to be the pause.
He suggested just to give it a little more throttle on take off and it flattens it out. It does. More of an idiosyncrasy and a bit of getting used to.
The rest of the car is a dream. One bonus was a little flick back on the DSG to put it in Sport mode, where it turns into a rocket. I was wondering if all Golfs had it or is it part of the Drivers Assist package I got ?

[Nauend]

Sport mode, where it turns into a rocket. I was wondering if all Golfs had it or is it part of the Drivers Assist package I got ?

Flicking the gear stick back to change between D and S modes is on my 103, and no driver assist pack installed, so it may be standard. Makes a hell of a difference. I suspect the s mode is the thing that's keeping my fuel usage a little higher as I'm flicking it into s mode constantly.........

[pologti18t]

Flicking the gear stick back to change between D and S modes is on my 103, and no driver assist pack installed, so it may be standard. Makes a hell of a difference. I suspect the s mode is the thing that's keeping my fuel usage a little higher as I'm flicking it into s mode constantly.........

S (sports) mode is standard for DSG cars. It holds gears for longer (higher revs) and it holds onto a lower gear for longer after lifting off the throttle (overtaking). Some one can also confirm that the car wont select 6th or 7th gear until much higher speeds are reached. Generally its a pain around town... great on a winding mountain road.

[R1200GS]

Wipers (will be fixed by dealer), Can't turn auto stop off permanently (dealer will do it, but does not recommend this), Radio reception (dealer will update software), Visibility from side mirrors (will fit small fish eye mirrors to the corners of the mirrors). First gear too low in 6 speed manual (but good for stop start traffic I guess)
It's a lot of car for the price, I'm really very happy overall........

[Eaglehawk]

Can't turn auto stop off permanently (dealer will do it, but does not recommend this).

Is this change making the button moot? Or will it actually keep the setting between restarts?

[Ryan_R]

For any new Golf owners here who didn't know, Guy Harding had a DSG tune available for the Mk6 generation that held gears a little longer in D, and allowing upshifts into 7th in S.

With the standard software I was constantly going for Manual mode to grab the gear I wanted (and retrofitted a steering wheel with paddles to that cause), but with the DSG tune have rarely used the paddles since. It may become available for the Mk7 Golf later on if anyone is interested (assuming it's not already compatible, I can't remember what DQxxx is in the Mk7).

http://www.vwwatercooled.com/forums/f177/harding-performance-dsg-software-hardware-program-73662.html

[Brew69]

I didn't know the S mode was there. All I can say is WOW! Goodbye economy lol

[Baz 55]

Brew69 - yeah it is so tempting to flick back the gear shift the 2 cm and go nuts !!!

[Nauend]

Brew69 - yeah it is so tempting to flick back the gear shift the 2 cm and go nuts !!!

it's too tempting.....and does not help the pursuit of low fuel usage, but surely flicking it into S one more time will be ok....... And if this is what the 90 or 103 is like, what is the GTI like?

[readerr0r]

Wassereinbruch in VW Golf VII, Audi A3 und Seat Leon - autobild.de

Worth keeping an eye out for all current Golf 7 owners. Basically water may build up in the front passenger footwell (or, depending on how the RHD conversion was done for us, the driver footwell).

This is a German report so not idea if RHD cars have the problem at all.

[Nauend]

These are most likely just random but....

. have had one situation where the car seemed to, i dont know, take a few seconds longer to decide it needed to move forward from a stopped position when I pressed the accelerator
. the auto brake engages based on the pressure you put on the foot brake, so if you press lightly it won't engage - all good, but there have been a couple of times when I'd expected it to have engaged and it didn't as the car started rolling backwards - might be a fine line between engaging or not, but am monitoring now to see if it's me or the car. I have to read up about auto hold too I think
. switching from D to S occasionally confuses the DSG and it seems to drop into a gear that is too low - the engine roar is a bit harsh (I need to limit use of S anyway as not eco enough, and also practice timing of changing into S perhaps)
. car forgot/reset the long term fuel usage info

[Ryan_R]

It may take a little longer but instead of shifting to S you could go sideways and down 2-3 times to shift down manually. Then either push up to go a gear higher manually or back into D and it'll pick a higher gear again.