Passat MY12.5

[cru22z]

Hi GUys,

Just saw on the carsales.com.au ad a Passat with MY12.5
I thought MY12 was the latest???? I noticed the aircondition buttons are different from looking at a MY12.

Since when did MY12.5 been out?? Has anyone recently bought a MY12.5 and which build date was it?
Mine was built on Dec 2011/jan 2012 and is still on its way to me. Would that be a MY12 or MY12.5

Im puzzled.

[FSI 220]

Hmmm , can you post the link to that ad? My car landed in the country in Jan and I pick it up next week (7 sleeps)

Id be interested to work out if a .5 exists.... and if it does a wee bit pi$$ed if i ended up with the last of the .0's

Actually no need to post the link... google for passat 3c my12.5 and they appear

[cru22z]

Hmmm , can you post the link to that ad? My car landed in the country in Jan and I pick it up next week (7 sleeps)

Id be interested to work out if a .5 exists.... and if it does a wee bit pi$$ed if i ended up with the last of the .0's

Actually no need to post the link... google for passat 3c my12.5 and they appear

if you look at this link in the interior pics..the climate control looks tally different to the other MY12 or MY12.5 tsi..


2012 VOLKSWAGEN PASSAT 125TDI DSG HIGHLINE Type 3C MY12.5 Cars For Sale in WA - carsales.com.au - carsales.com.au

[dopey]

Hmm yes the new updated climate control is very nice

[cru22z]

Can this be right?

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It looks like the update climate control looks like what's in the passat in the USA. I'm really intrigue by this.

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Actually even in the German Vw site shows the update climate control.
Highlights

Does anyone have this on their new b7 yet?

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I did some more digging. If your car to arrive Vin# is close to this numbers you are mostlikely a my12.5

VIN
wvwzzz3czcp039842

[FSI 220]

Hmmmm

mine is wvwzzz3czcexxxxxxx

hopefully the last letter being different is just a paint code or somesuch.

hmmm just downloaded the nhtsa spec for vins... first three digits is the manufacturer code. next five digits is the model designation (hence 3c). the ninth digit is a checksum which follows a formula of weightings and values (as the high weights contain z'ds w's etc. it ends up being a z).

the next number is the model year... it was reset to A for the my10, therefore C is my12. the last alpha is the plant of manufacture.

there is no provision for 1/2 model years in the coding... so it would be in the sequential numbering, and i am not within cooee (95 thousands)...

[cru22z]

So which month or year was your car ordered to be built.

I'm really curious about this MY12.5 I can't find any diff aside from pic comparison on the VW Germany site and that carsales ad with that MY12.5 TDI

[FSI 220]

built end nov... on the boat dec. landed 'kembla 12th jan. there has been a boat since... email has been sent to dealer...

[cru22z]

Mine was built either on end of dec01 or early Jan012. It left Germany in Jan and ETA end of Feb to land in Aus.

Do let me know what you get from the dealers. Thanks

[FSI 220]

I'm really curious about this MY12.5 I can't find any diff aside from pic comparison on the VW Germany site and that carsales ad with that MY12.5 TDI

I got nothing back from my dealer as yet, to be fair I deal with a multi franchise fleet lady.

What I have found out is that the VIN you proposed is the sedan range, the VIN with E and the number range in the 90thousand odd seems to be reflected in the MY12.5 wagons.... That means two things, sedans and wagons appear to be made in different plants and in completely different VIN ranges, and I still have a chance of my car being 12.5.

I would say you would be safe in being a 12.5

I went back and looked at Passat Alltrack launch pictures and they have the new climatronic controls, it was launched in europe around the 23rd of Nov with pics... I would like to think launch stock would have had to go down the line a few days earlier, so the update would have occured at least a week before the 23rd.... I am hoping that a vin is generated and appears on the tracker within a day or two of manufacture , my vin appeared on the 22nd.... so here is to hoping, because although they kinda look like a golf v throwback I like the look of those climatronic controls over the black monoblock with orange LED blocks controls.... they look more bespoke to the car IMHO...

[cru22z]

I got nothing back from my dealer as yet, to be fair I deal with a multi franchise fleet lady.

What I have found out is that the VIN you proposed is the sedan range, the VIN with E and the number range in the 90thousand odd seems to be reflected in the MY12.5 wagons.... That means two things, sedans and wagons appear to be made in different plants and in completely different VIN ranges, and I still have a chance of my car being 12.5.

I would say you would be safe in being a 12.5

I went back and looked at Passat Alltrack launch pictures and they have the new climatronic controls, it was launched in europe around the 23rd of Nov with pics... I would like to think launch stock would have had to go down the line a few days earlier, so the update would have occured at least a week before the 23rd.... I am hoping that a vin is generated and appears on the tracker within a day or two of manufacture , my vin appeared on the 22nd.... so here is to hoping, because although they kinda look like a golf v throwback I like the look of those climatronic controls over the black monoblock with orange LED blocks controls.... they look more bespoke to the car IMHO...

Sounds good! Anyway let me know when you get your car if its a 12.5? I hope VW will be more proactive with this changes..as they seem to just mix and match parts when they feel like it and call it a 12.5 i dunno when My12 was just released a few months ago. Im sure when we get our 12.5 theres probably a MY13.5 out already using maybe the Chinese VW passat Bixenon headlight..have you seen their version of the Passat DRL it goes all the way to the end of the headlight like the Audi's

[Lupo]

I read it in other model threads - my12.5 for european cars started in week 45/2011. Hope this helps.

[Riker]

I had been wondering when this update was coming after seeing it late 2011 in the updated CC & new Alltrack. My car was in the first batch of RHD MY12 cars made for Asia Pacific delivery so I was never going to have the update but I can't say yet whether I prefer it or not over my MY12 climate control. I do agree that the MY12.5 update is more integrated into the console. Looks good, hope you both have it...

FSI, close mate, very close now......... I hope you get a bit of an echo effect in your garage. When you start the V6 it has an awesome deep burble you'll enjoy, guaranteed. My wife mentioned the other day she had noticed it & loves it....

[entice]

My local did a PD on one last week, and it had the new climate controls.


So if it's on its way I'd imagine it'd be the new ones.

PS, saw the panoramic roof today.. man what a nice roof!

Suffice to say, the wife's one that is landing in port 13th of next month will be the new one.
PS, 12.5 on the golfs I think was Build week 2 of 2012. So my R will also be a 12.5

[FSI 220]

FSI, close mate, very close now......... I hope you get a bit of an echo effect in your garage. When you start the V6 it has an awesome deep burble you'll enjoy, guaranteed. My wife mentioned the other day she had noticed it & loves it....

I have owned a couple of fast turbo Subarus... with that nice boxer burble... but as for the sound, my wife never noticed... she liked the power mind you


Even if it is an MY12.5, I am convinced that DAB+ and colour MFD will come out on MY13