Golf 7 - No USB port - really?
Discussion
Scuffers said:
lame analogy, in the context of SDXC cards, really?
I need a USB port; every car should have one. I need an aux port; every car should have one.I also need build quality and the horrificly unreliable £50k VW we've just sold shows they can't do modern convenience OR build quality. After many VWs I will never touch a VAG car again.
Tractor lad said:
Scuffers said:
lame analogy, in the context of SDXC cards, really?
I need a USB port; every car should have one. I need an aux port; every car should have one.I also need build quality and the horrificly unreliable £50k VW we've just sold shows they can't do modern convenience OR build quality. After many VWs I will never touch a VAG car again.
you 'NEED' a USB port and an 'AUX' port?
Really?
don't you mean you need a sound system that can play your personal musac collection?
Millions of people manage to live with cars without, it;s not the end of their lives!
I have an Audi, it has no Aux port and USB only via AMI cable (which I don't use), but I am perfectly happy to listen to MP3's from either it's HD, SD cards or via bluetooth (from my phone).
Is this really such a challenge?
Honesty?
Limpet said:
I use the USB port in the F30 for mp3s (off Flash drive). It's a gutless half amp port, so hopeless for charging anything.
I spent a couple of quid on a 2A cigarette lighter to USB adapter and use that if I need to top up the phone.
the spec for USB is 0.5AI spent a couple of quid on a 2A cigarette lighter to USB adapter and use that if I need to top up the phone.
(USB was never designed as a charging port)
Scuffers said:
eh?
you 'NEED' a USB port and an 'AUX' port?
Really?
don't you mean you need a sound system that can play your personal musac collection?
Millions of people manage to live with cars without, it;s not the end of their lives!
I have an Audi, it has no Aux port and USB only via AMI cable (which I don't use), but I am perfectly happy to listen to MP3's from either it's HD, SD cards or via bluetooth (from my phone).
Is this really such a challenge?
Honesty?
No - my eight year old Subaru has neither. But it's eight years old. My eight year old 335d DID have an aux port though. And my 1 year old M135i has both (x2) because it's a MODERN car. Surely a USB port is hardly pushing the boat out?you 'NEED' a USB port and an 'AUX' port?
Really?
don't you mean you need a sound system that can play your personal musac collection?
Millions of people manage to live with cars without, it;s not the end of their lives!
I have an Audi, it has no Aux port and USB only via AMI cable (which I don't use), but I am perfectly happy to listen to MP3's from either it's HD, SD cards or via bluetooth (from my phone).
Is this really such a challenge?
Honesty?
I used to love Golfs and VWs in general - I had several. Now they do infuriating stuff like electronic handbrakes (while our expensive VW was constantly being fixed we had almost every current VW as a loan car), that hateful A pillar triangle on the Golf door, a nav screen so low you have to look at your feet to see it, a boot so shallow that even a deep pan pizza is a challenge and build quality so poor, they make 1970s Lancias lookk well engineered. Just like Audi, they've lost the plot and it's hateful because both USED to be great brands.
Apologies all for the slightly irrelevant rant.
Tractor lad said:
No - my eight year old Subaru has neither. But it's eight years old. My eight year old 335d DID have an aux port though. And my 1 year old M135i has both (x2) because it's a MODERN car. Surely a USB port is hardly pushing the boat out?
I used to love Golfs and VWs in general - I had several. Now they do infuriating stuff like electronic handbrakes (while our expensive VW was constantly being fixed we had almost every current VW as a loan car), that hateful A pillar triangle on the Golf door, a nav screen so low you have to look at your feet to see it, a boot so shallow that even a deep pan pizza is a challenge and build quality so poor, they make 1970s Lancias lookk well engineered. Just like Audi, they've lost the plot and it's hateful because both USED to be great brands.
Apologies all for the slightly irrelevant rant.
I think electronic handbrakes are something all modern cars should have. I would be more upset if my car came with an old-school handbrake than a missing USB port, they just seem so archaic.I used to love Golfs and VWs in general - I had several. Now they do infuriating stuff like electronic handbrakes (while our expensive VW was constantly being fixed we had almost every current VW as a loan car), that hateful A pillar triangle on the Golf door, a nav screen so low you have to look at your feet to see it, a boot so shallow that even a deep pan pizza is a challenge and build quality so poor, they make 1970s Lancias lookk well engineered. Just like Audi, they've lost the plot and it's hateful because both USED to be great brands.
Apologies all for the slightly irrelevant rant.
I could understand the need for a old style handbrake on drift car but not on a road car.
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/12V-Dual-Waterproof-USB-...
I've got one of these to add to my S2000 and DC2.
I've got one of these to add to my S2000 and DC2.
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