New VW Tiguan

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Sheepshanks

32,530 posts

118 months

Friday 10th June 2016
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That is a pretty incredible omission - I'd have had leather on ours if it had memory. Don't know if it's still the case but years ago it was a £100 option on Touareg and I'm just amazed the new MQB platform for Tiguan hasn't enabled it.

That said, in ours the seat moves back as its height is dropped - it seems to move almost diagonally - so that's the only thing we have to adjust. So in practice it's not that much of an issue.

Most awkward thing for me is the car's usual parking space at home is with driver's door against a wall and it's a little awkward for me to get in after my wife has left the seat up (and therefore forward).

Burwood

18,709 posts

245 months

Saturday 11th June 2016
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I'm not that fussed by leather as it's fake rubbish anyway. Bicast but the kids would completely ruin cloth . The only plus with leather is it's easy to hose down smile

The only thing I can think of is this is a left hand drive option but I can't see why. I'm going to contact VW uk and find out why and if I could I'd def retro gig it but I don't like my chances.

Edited to add, bit more digging. ALL new Tiguans are made in Wolfburg. LHD markets have both driver and passenger memory as an option. The Uk does not. WTF not. Makes no sense to me other than someone forgot. I'm going to see if i can get it added. Probably not as the computer says no but worth a bloody try

Edited by Burwood on Saturday 11th June 07:47

Burwood

18,709 posts

245 months

Tuesday 21st June 2016
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Im having second thoughts now. Thinking i might buy the new Q5 instead. The issue I have is, pre discount the Tiguan is a £40K vehicle which is a lot for a Tiguan. I can't see the Q5 with the same 190ps TDi being that much more. It may be even less when you factor in residuals.

Sheepshanks

32,530 posts

118 months

Tuesday 21st June 2016
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By all means lease or PCP, but actually buying a diesel anything with your own money strikes me as a massive gamble.

Burwood

18,709 posts

245 months

Tuesday 21st June 2016
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Sheepshanks said:
By all means lease or PCP, but actually buying a diesel anything with your own money strikes me as a massive gamble.
I can see the benefits of leasing. I realise ken takes a bath on most new cars. My main concern is it's a 40k car. An. Ordinary albeit nice mid size car.

Burwood

18,709 posts

245 months

Tuesday 21st June 2016
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Sheepshanks said:
By all means lease or PCP, but actually buying a diesel anything with your own money strikes me as a massive gamble.
and for comparison the dealer gave me PCP numbers which are terrible because their residual is 16k after 36 months and 35k miles. thats 40% residual which isn't good at all. assuming you gave the car back thats £401 x 36+10k down or 24.4k. Not good is it. Im sure it would be worth more than 16k but who knows if they start discounting the crap out of them in a years time.

Sheepshanks

32,530 posts

118 months

Tuesday 21st June 2016
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Burwood said:
and for comparison the dealer gave me PCP numbers which are terrible because their residual is 16k after 36 months and 35k miles.
If VWs own estimate of the residual doesn't put you off then nothing will.

It was a similar figure on our Sept 15 Match DSG, but after discount, contributions etc, the car was only £24K. Thinking I could run the car for 3yrs for £8K I withdrew from the PCP to avoid the interest cost.

Then a few days later VW's emissions announcement came out. furious

No way do I want to run the car out of warranty - the engine / emissions stuff is horrendous - so I'm likely to take a much bigger hit than calculated. The new model is the same engine etc.

Burwood

18,709 posts

245 months

Tuesday 21st June 2016
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Sheepshanks said:
Burwood said:
and for comparison the dealer gave me PCP numbers which are terrible because their residual is 16k after 36 months and 35k miles.
If VWs own estimate of the residual doesn't put you off then nothing will.

It was a similar figure on our Sept 15 Match DSG, but after discount, contributions etc, the car was only £24K. Thinking I could run the car for 3yrs for £8K I withdrew from the PCP to avoid the interest cost.

Then a few days later VW's emissions announcement came out. furious

No way do I want to run the car out of warranty - the engine / emissions stuff is horrendous - so I'm likely to take a much bigger hit than calculated. The new model is the same engine etc.
I'm looking for something else. Must be AWD, auto, not too big. decisions decisions. even a Macan is too small (boot) F pace, can't live with the crappy engine. Its a shame i can't convince her to get an Audi S3. She wants the high position!

Hitch

6,100 posts

193 months

Tuesday 21st June 2016
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I thought I'd like the new Tiguan as it looked good in the shots I've seen. Two things have put me off now, the first being the awful TV ad and the second being the rather dumpy proportions at the rear three-quarters I noticed when following one at the weekend. It reminded me of the ungainly mk1 X3.


miqt82

21 posts

92 months

Sunday 7th August 2016
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Why in 2016 haven't Vw put parking camera as standard on the new Tiguan?!
You have to go all the way up to the SEL for it to be standard.

Sheepshanks

32,530 posts

118 months

Sunday 7th August 2016
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miqt82 said:
Why in 2016 haven't Vw put parking camera as standard on the new Tiguan?!
You have to go all the way up to the SEL for it to be standard.
Nope - it's not standard on any model.

No idea what VW are thinking of - even vs the old model, pretty well all other SUVs have it, and so did Tiguan in other markets. It's quite a cheap option on the new one, but the snag is it means a factory order unless you happen to be able to find one already built with it spec'd.

The old one didn't even have cruise control as standard until the last couple of months of its run.

Glosphil

4,337 posts

233 months

Monday 8th August 2016
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Hitch said:
I thought I'd like the new Tiguan as it looked good in the shots I've seen. Two things have put me off now, the first being the awful TV ad and the second being the rather dumpy proportions at the rear three-quarters I noticed when following one at the weekend. It reminded me of the ungainly mk1 X3.
Are you really completely put off a car solely because of a poor TV ad and the rear 3/4 view!!!!

Hitch

6,100 posts

193 months

Monday 8th August 2016
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I am. The school run bling ad they showed with a white one seemingly on 20 inch wheels makes me cringe. Just like when I was in a Nissan dealership looking at the new X-trail and the salesman used the line "Your neighbours will be really impressed if you put one of these on your drive". I am basically very bad at being sold too.

The 3/4 I could live with but it does make what seemed to be a fairly sharp design look dumpy in the flesh.

Burwood

18,709 posts

245 months

Monday 8th August 2016
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Glosphil said:
Hitch said:
I thought I'd like the new Tiguan as it looked good in the shots I've seen. Two things have put me off now, the first being the awful TV ad and the second being the rather dumpy proportions at the rear three-quarters I noticed when following one at the weekend. It reminded me of the ungainly mk1 X3.
Are you really completely put off a car solely because of a poor TV ad and the rear 3/4 view!!!!
I too am not too fond of the rear and for what is a Tiguan, 40k. You can spec them up to 48k which is just silly on a basic albeit nice vag car. I'd rather spend a bit more and get something more interesting