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I wouldn't buy a car perceived as a luxury brand ever again. I've had BMW, Audi, Jaguar and Porsche. They attract the people with a huge chip on their shoulder.
• I was front car at some traffic...

OMG. If that's true, that's a shocker. VW will have to arrange suppliers from another country.

I switched my car back to Auto time (after it decided to put it back an hour on 1st April, April Fools Day, Lol). Who says Germans don't have a sense of humour?

I poked around in the menus of my R-Line, and found I was able to turn on the speed limits in the Golf's GPS on the main screen. It's not really dynamic, as it relies on the map data from VW....

I don't think there's much difference in specs at all, so reading this forum should be good. Enjoy your new car.

Just thought I'd share my Golf's virtual cockpit. I'm very happy with the fuel economy of my 1.4 litre auto, and the fuel range (just over 1,000km). On top of that, I think the power is amazing –...

Regarding the Harman/Kardon sound system, I played a youtube video on it (Subwoofer Test Extreme), and found the H/K was able to pump bass sounds at good volume down to 30Hz, whereas most home hi-fi...

Having taken it to the dealer, it seems impossible to change that setting. It seems that VW Germany has set the Australian cars so it can't be changed, to avoid someone playing and causing an...

Have a made a blue, playing with my car and selected my headlights to point in the wrong direction? "Driving on the right". I seem to remember people in the UK having their cars confuse left & right...

No, it hasn't been deleted for the US. Like my VW dealer, he just doesn't realise it's there. I can see it's there as the right cluster on the steering wheel has the voice command symbol (top left)....

I haven't had issues with the car, except once when I started touching the panel furiously when I'd just turned on the car, and didn't wait a few seconds for it to start up. (Like when you press the...

Excellent points, AJW.

With climate control, no matter what time of year, University of Adelaide sets all the temperature controls to 21 degrees, as that temperature is most comfortable and keeps...

The temp can either be changed by voice control ("change the temperature to 24 degrees"; or "lower the temperature by 3 degrees"; or just say "I'm cold" which would turn up the temp by 1 degree); or...

I think it's great, really great. Those videos are from people who haven't given themselves time to learn it. It's easy to be negative when they haven't bothered to read the flamin' manual (or listen...

Unfortunately I didn't search here before buying the Autotecnica Ultimate Hail Protection cover.
Are they kidding? It's so ridged you need at least 2, if not 4 people to put it on without scratching...

Let me assure you – the Golf 8, rightfully, will refuse to play any video while the car is moving, with a warning along the lines that it can't as it's not safe. :)

Ouch. Thanks for that. I presume you're quoting Qld law. I'll try to look into SA law.

Did you know you can play videos on the main screen? I play videos from my USB stick. It will show the video whenever the car stops, but continue just playing the sound while the car is in motion.
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I haven't had a problem. (3.5 months, 4,000km, plenty of reversing).
R-Line. I'm suspicious there's a difference in the software between the models, as my is really great (and I'm usually the first...

Doubtful. When I picked up my R-line in August I made a comment about it being annoying it doesn't have digital radio. My salesman told me to install an app called "RadioApp" on my phone. Then via...

No Aussie-spec Golfs have IQ.Light. I really wanted it. Perhaps it may come on the R. However, my R-Line and your GTI have "LED Performance headlights", "Light Assist" and "cornering light". I've...

I found the way to show the speed limit. Although it's not necessarily up to date or accurate (I'm guessing it may take 1 or 2 hundred metres to change in a new speed zone). I don't rely on it, but...

Despite having time on manual, my car changed the time zone. I guess I shouldn't have been cheating by using another time zone, as it probably noticed by GPS I was not in that time zone, so corrected...

Andrew from Volkswizard has posted an excellent video (as usual), related to mk8 myths. Even I learnt a new trick (tapping in the blank area below the home button).
As for his method of increasing...

I think we have to try different things. I went to try to change the Time Zone, but it was greyed out (despite Time & Date being changed from Auto to Manual. Next time I started the car the Time Zone...