Just bought a MK7 Golf GT DSG

Just bought a MK7 Golf GT DSG

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missing the VR6

2,320 posts

188 months

Thursday 19th March 2015
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SteBrown91 said:
missing the VR6 said:
The majority of VW dealers will give their Approved Used vehicles an oil service before delivery. The oil used is the annual service oil which gives 1 year or 10k mileage intervals. When you have the next service if you ask them to do a Longlife service you'll have up to 2 years or about 18K miles between services.
The oil is the same regardless of what schedule you are on. I'd stick to 10k services fresh is best in regards to oil IMO.

Mine benefits after a 10k service so the oil must be pretty gloopy by the time 20k comes.
I'd want to double check that if I were you!!

SteBrown91

2,360 posts

128 months

Thursday 19th March 2015
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missing the VR6 said:
I'd want to double check that if I were you!!
Well vw have used 5w30 long life for some time and although im on fixed its always filled with longlife by the dealer.

missing the VR6

2,320 posts

188 months

Thursday 19th March 2015
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SteBrown91 said:
Well vw have used 5w30 long life for some time and although im on fixed its always filled with longlife by the dealer.
Might be worth seeing if they are charging you a premium for an oil you don't need.

SteBrown91

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128 months

Thursday 19th March 2015
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missing the VR6 said:
Might be worth seeing if they are charging you a premium for an oil you don't need.
Im quite happy to keep the oil in. AFAIK vw has always had long life from new for some years. Actually I think the manual confirms this

andrewparker

7,899 posts

186 months

Thursday 19th March 2015
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SteBrown91 said:
missing the VR6 said:
I'd want to double check that if I were you!!
Well vw have used 5w30 long life for some time and although im on fixed its always filled with longlife by the dealer.
Yeah, this is what I understood too. My GTI was on fixed and long life was always used by my VW main dealer.

SteBrown91

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128 months

Thursday 19th March 2015
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andrewparker said:
Yeah, this is what I understood too. My GTI was on fixed and long life was always used by my VW main dealer.
I checked my manual and for the 155kw (GTI) it can use a slightly different grade for no long life, but for diesels it is the same regardless. (Plus my car is a Cyrpus import so info might be slightly different)

I assume dealers buy in the oil in such vast bulk its probably the same or cheaper to chuck long life in.

bitchstewie

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50,781 posts

209 months

Friday 20th March 2015
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OK so unless I'm just not seeing it I don't see a way to get average MPG since resetting the trip computer?

"Consumption" seems to show realtime consumption, "Average" seems to show average consumption "Since Start" which I'm taking to mean since the car was started.

Obviously I can do the maths manually but I'd assumed the onboard computer would let you see a long term average consumption as of course it fluctuates wildly depending on a given journey.

SteBrown91

2,360 posts

128 months

Friday 20th March 2015
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bhstewie said:
OK so unless I'm just not seeing it I don't see a way to get average MPG since resetting the trip computer?

"Consumption" seems to show realtime consumption, "Average" seems to show average consumption "Since Start" which I'm taking to mean since the car was started.

Obviously I can do the maths manually but I'd assumed the onboard computer would let you see a long term average consumption as of course it fluctuates wildly depending on a given journey.
Don't think you can (it doesn't do this on my golf mk6 either)

andrewparker

7,899 posts

186 months

Friday 20th March 2015
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bhstewie said:
OK so unless I'm just not seeing it I don't see a way to get average MPG since resetting the trip computer?

"Consumption" seems to show realtime consumption, "Average" seems to show average consumption "Since Start" which I'm taking to mean since the car was started.

Obviously I can do the maths manually but I'd assumed the onboard computer would let you see a long term average consumption as of course it fluctuates wildly depending on a given journey.
With the computer on Avg. Consumption press the OK button and it will scroll through Since Start, Since Refuel, and Longterm.

bitchstewie

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50,781 posts

209 months

Friday 20th March 2015
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andrewparker said:
With the computer on Avg. Consumption press the OK button and it will scroll through Since Start, Since Refuel, and Longterm.
Fantastic - thank you smile

bitchstewie

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209 months

Tuesday 24th March 2015
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And I'm sitting at home waiting for the AA...

Got in this morning and "Check Coolant" came on, popped the bonnet and sure enough there is about 1cm of pink stuff in the tank.

I know jack about cars but looking at the tank there's no obvious sign of any liquid having made a "fill" mark if that makes sense, so I'm wondering if they didn't fill it or something as there is no sign of any kind of leak under the vehicle - comes down to wait and see I guess but it's obviously taken the gloss off a (so far) very nice experience.

The one little crumb of comfort is that with 6 miles on it I don't believe they've intentionally sold on a duff car they've had back or anything like that.

EDIT: Still waiting but Google makes for some interesting reading on this..

Edited by bhstewie on Tuesday 24th March 08:20

missing the VR6

2,320 posts

188 months

Tuesday 24th March 2015
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bhstewie said:
And I'm sitting at home waiting for the AA...

Got in this morning and "Check Coolant" came on, popped the bonnet and sure enough there is about 1cm of pink stuff in the tank.

I know jack about cars but looking at the tank there's no obvious sign of any liquid having made a "fill" mark if that makes sense, so I'm wondering if they didn't fill it or something as there is no sign of any kind of leak under the vehicle - comes down to wait and see I guess but it's obviously taken the gloss off a (so far) very nice experience.

The one little crumb of comfort is that with 6 miles on it I don't believe they've intentionally sold on a duff car they've had back or anything like that.

EDIT: Still waiting but Google makes for some interesting reading on this..

Edited by bhstewie on Tuesday 24th March 08:20
Funnily enough I've had that twice on 2 different MK7 Golfs, I just put some tap water in the expansion tank and drove to work, where I got some coolant, never happened again. I found it weird how it seemingly drained itself overnight, but only the once. That being said I only have my cars for 3 months.

andrewparker

7,899 posts

186 months

Tuesday 24th March 2015
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Yep, my MK7 is the first Golf I've had when I've had to do a coolant top up. The light came on at roughly 6000 miles and the level was quite low. Topped it up and it's been fine since.

bitchstewie

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50,781 posts

209 months

Tuesday 24th March 2015
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Yes I've found a lot of similar threads whilst I was waiting for the VW Assist chap, which kind of put my mind at ease a bit.

The chap arrived and was really helpful and thorough and explained a few things I didn't know about the quantity of coolant in the system, and the "fun" you can have with a new system as it can expand/contract a little all of which can apparently be enough just suck the level down a little if it wasn't up to the max mark - and tbh having had the car a week I hadn't even gotten around to looking under the bonnet smile

He topped it up, freely admitted that if it had been empty rather than simply very low he would be recovering me as there's next to nothing he can do outside of the dealers.

So fingers crossed. Have to say I'll be emailing VW Assist because the chap they sent out was fantastic.

bitchstewie

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209 months

Tuesday 31st March 2015
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So 2 weeks in and so far no regrets, and if you know how long I fked about looking at cars trying to work out what I wanted that's no mean feat biggrin

The DSG is interesting. I like it, but I do see now how you can't treat it quite like you would an automatic - little things like the lack of "creep" (which I do struggle with a little reversing) and the handbrake (presumably) engaging the moment you stop etc.

I'm still finding things in the menu that I didn't know are there, and fuel wise I seem to be averaging about 50mpg with the thing in "sport" mode - probably should try "eco" and "normal" at at some point too.

andrewparker

7,899 posts

186 months

Tuesday 31st March 2015
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Good stuff, any photos?

I am pleased you didn't go for that Lexus thing!

bitchstewie

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50,781 posts

209 months

Tuesday 31st March 2015
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I probably will when I've had a decent run of weather to get it cleaned up, but tbh it's literally a stock Limestone Golf, just the sunroof.

I think the Lexus would have been a mistake (certainly the CT, I did like the RX though it's chalk and cheese and I'd forever be picking holes in a 4-5 year old car), and co-incidentally I had a voicemail today from one of the Lexus dealers I visited asking how I was getting on.

andrewparker

7,899 posts

186 months

Friday 3rd April 2015
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Have you had a chance to test the long run economy yet Stewie? The GTD still impresses in that respect, did a 140 mile journey last night at an indicated average of 61.8mpg, four up with a boot full of luggage, and at mostly 75mph on ACC. Would be interested to know how a DSG GT compares.

bitchstewie

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209 months

Friday 3rd April 2015
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Indicated is around 52mpg but that's after 600 miles (not sure if the engine need a while), a right mix of journeys mostly 20 miles max, and the thing in "Sport" mode as I've not even bothered trying anything else yet - I'd assume Eco would make a difference but don't know how much of one until I try it out.

Still a useful improvement over 35mpg on the old car.

andrewparker

7,899 posts

186 months

Friday 3rd April 2015
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General consensus is that Eco actually makes it worse, strangely, plus the way it effects the throttle response is hateful. I noticed decent improvement in MPG once the car had 1500 miles on it.