Folding Mirrors

[Tim]

Although notice pajero's have the feature and some other cars.

I think a lot of 4wds have them as it sometimes makes sense offroad

[ozvino]

Its a standard feature on the Touareg (in Aust)

[Tim]

Whilst its nice to have all the bells and whistles I think its a pretty useless feature in Australia. We dont have the narrow lanes they have in europe.

I dont think ive ever felt the need to fold in a mirror on a car other than when its been layed up off the road for 6 months +

[elisiX]

I've never folded the mirrors on any cars i've owned - but its a nice feature to have.

[gticrazy]

Yeah I would have liked this feature on mine - it looks pretty cool!

[kennyc]

Hi guys, couldn't find a search item on this.
I was starting to read some of the manual when i noticed that there is a version of the car which has Automatic folding of the external mirrors. Now my car does not have the function but i was never informed about it being a function.
Its not a big deal but do the Australian versions have this function and do any of you with the GTI have it?

As i said i don't care for it really, just curious.

Thanks

[Corey_R]

Its not a big deal but do the Australian versions have this function and do any of you with the GTI have it?

No.

The manual covers basically all english speaking countries. So there are features and functions discussed in the manual which are not applicable to Australia.

[Idle]

It's not a big deal anyway — the shape of the Mk 6 mirror housing means it doesn't reduce the width of the car more than an inch or so.

[kennyc]

Cool, thanks for the reply

[GTi Crow]

While I appreciate Aussie cars do not do this can we program or get the dealer to program if we want it to happen with a GTI. I thought the later versions of the GTI Mk5 did this. I know mine being a 2005 model did not, but i thought later models did. Or am I getting that mixed up with the mirrors dipping when reversing and if so do Mark 6 GTIs do that. I haven't got mine yet so I am yet to look at the manual.