Purchased a 1.5 Life

[Handydave]

I'm having the issue with mirrors also.
I'm due to collect my VW Golf 8 eTSI Style on the 1st.
The website states that the style comes with electric folding mirrors but the dealer tells me it doesn't have it.

Folding mirrors were only introduced ifor the MY2021 version of the Golf which was announced in July.

Something strange is going on here. I've researched various versions of the brochure / pricelist (which were downloaded to my computer at time of viewing) and the results are:

effective 05 Mar 20: no mention of electrically folding mirrors
effective 01 Apr 20: no mention of electrically folding mirrors
effective 01 May 20: no mention of electrically folding mirrors
effective 26 Jun 20: for the Style, electrically heated, adjustable and foldable mirrors with memory, auto dimming on drivers' side etc

Our Style was built third week of July, so we were expecting the electrically folding mirrors, but when it turned up last week they weren't fitted - manual fold only. Couldn't really complain as we'd ordered in March.

But the strange thing is, going to the website this evening, the brochure / pricelist has reverted to the 01 Apr 20 version, with no mention of folding mirrors for the Style.

What's going on?

[jmagee]

That is strange. So they'll fold manually from the knob but not on locking. Hopefully an option to enable via Carista/ vcds.

I hope mine comes with it!

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[Handydave]

No - they fold manually by getting out of the car and folding by hand.
No electric fold.

[jmagee]

No - they fold manually by getting out of the car and folding by hand.
No electric fold.

Ah... Old school. I really won't be happy with that then. Such a step backwards!

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[Handydave]

Yes, disappointing on a £29k car.

[djangophi]

yeah it is disappointing, the dealer took pity on me in the end and gave me a small discount which is better than nothing I guess. Still though it's a feature I'll miss. I currently have a polo which has electric folding mirrors and blind spot detection which is a feature I'll definitely miss.

[johnsimcox]

Something strange is going on here. I've researched various versions of the brochure / pricelist (which were downloaded to my computer at time of viewing) and the results are:

effective 05 Mar 20: no mention of electrically folding mirrors
effective 01 Apr 20: no mention of electrically folding mirrors
effective 01 May 20: no mention of electrically folding mirrors
effective 26 Jun 20: for the Style, electrically heated, adjustable and foldable mirrors with memory, auto dimming on drivers' side etc

Our Style was built third week of July, so we were expecting the electrically folding mirrors, but when it turned up last week they weren't fitted - manual fold only. Couldn't really complain as we'd ordered in March.

But the strange thing is, going to the website this evening, the brochure / pricelist has reverted to the 01 Apr 20 version, with no mention of folding mirrors for the Style.

What's going on?

Yes I noticed that too, when looking to see if the price had changed with the addition of the new items and to compare the specs. Maybe VW have decided to reveret to the launch spec for now because most cars available are already in dealer stock

[johnsimcox]

Because of the current restrictions on our lives, plus the Golf being my wife’s car and we tend to use my car for major journeys (when we take them!) the Golf has had limited use since we bought it. However this weekend we covered 360 miles over 2 days traveling from just West of London to the Norwich area and back. The journey in both directions was primarily M25, M11 and A11 plus some local country roads at the Norwich end.


Overall impressions of the car on the journey are very positive and it does not feel like a second class choice compared to my A6. Over the 360 miles we averaged 54.9mpg and an average speed of 48mph which for a 1.5 petrol engine I think is very good and not far off what I got from my 2.0 diesel A6 a few weeks earlier doing the same trip. The return journey actually saw an average speed of over 50mph and an average mpg of 56.3.


Other observations. Like the Sat Nav, especially the little icons on the journey progress line on the right of the screen showing petrol and food stops on the planned route and the ability to touch the icon and program it as a way point. Avoids the incessant “Please make a U turn” when you deviate from the planned route to make a comfort stop. Not sure my A6 has that feature but will need to check. The lane guidance is very dictatorial, all too often it told me to drive in the centre of the road or put my hands on the steering wheel, even though that is where they were and it was just a very straight long stretch of road.


Like my A6 the traffic sign recognition is very hit and miss and when it fails to detect a sign for a period of tie defaults to the speed in the sat nav database which is often incorrect. I see this as being a major issue if the rule makers really want us to adopt autonomous driving. Imagine the anger of other motorists when your car has decided to drive at 30mph when the speed limit is actually 60


Overall very happy with the purchase

[Handydave]

Thanks for the update, John.

Our 1.5 DSG eTSI (again, my wife’s) has now covered over 800 miles from new in mixed driving - mostly urban but a couple of 100 mile return trips. Over that distance, mpg is 45.6, slightly better than the 45.1 of the previous Golf 1.4 DSG over its final 2,000 miles with. But it’s definitely nippier, and the stop/start is almost imperceptible.

Agree with you on the ‘strip map’ displayed to the right of the sat nav screen. It’s also useful for seeing traffic queues en route and helping you to decide whether to ask the sat nav to avoid them.

Like you, very happy with the new Golf.


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[WakeyN]

Apologies if my question is mundane. I have tried folding the mirrors in manually, but they don’t move willingly. Are they v stiff to move? I don’t want to damage them by forcing them.