Golf GTI: the good, the bad, the weird...and appreciation thread

[elephino]

Had a weird event today. Driving along, changed lanes to the right on a left-hand bend and the rear door appeared as open suddenly. I'm assuming, unless it happens again, that it was just that I hadn't closed the door properly when it was last closed.

[GTI mk6]

Had a weird event today. Driving along, changed lanes to the right on a left-hand bend and the rear door appeared as open suddenly. I'm assuming, unless it happens again, that it was just that I hadn't closed the door properly when it was last closed.

OR....you accidentally hit the hatch unlock button on your key remote when unlocking the doors?
I did this one time, and after a dip in the road my rear door open lit up on the MFD.....oops

[Maverick]

OR....you accidentally hit the hatch unlock button on your key remote when unlocking the doors?
I did this one time, and after a dip in the road my rear door open lit up on the MFD.....oops

How do you accidentally hit the button when it needs to be held down for a few seconds? And it doens't unlatch the hatch, all it does is "unlock" the rear handle to allow you to open the hatch (unless you've made changes in Vagcom/VCDS for the auto hatch pop). Sounds like you didn't close the rear hatch correctly.

[elephino]

How do you accidentally hit the button when it needs to be held down for a few seconds? And it doens't unlatch the hatch, all it does is "unlock" the rear handle to allow you to open the hatch (unless you've made changes in Vagcom/VCDS for the auto hatch pop). Sounds like you didn't close the rear hatch correctly.

A single press unlocks the boot on mine, and a 2s hold unlatches it (not that it moves).

And to clarify, it was the drivers side rear door not the boot/hatch.

[GTI mk6]

A single press unlocks the boot on mine, and a 2s hold unlatches it (not that it moves).

And to clarify, it was the drivers side rear door not the boot/hatch.

Was just after I got my car, whatever I did it was when I was "unlocking the car"
when returning home in it. Thats the beauty of the MFD display, showed me the
error of my ways hehe
Edit, sorry mate, you did say rear door too, my mistake in thinking hatch..mine was the hatch though

[blanch0b]

i have to say i agree with most of the comments here on the good, the bad and the wierd...

One thing that really annoys me though is the small gap/wedge between the windows and the door frame. I have a huge jacaranda above my car which constantly drops incredbily small leaves which obviosuly find there way into this area between the windows and the door..... they get wedged in there i cant even blow them out which, for a new car, is heart breaking

Im also finding lots of little areas where mess/leaves can accumulate pretty quickly, and the back of the car gets dirty very quickly (whilst leaving the front pristine)

easy solved but i wish they designed the car so that the window sat flush at least