The Amazing PH Passat Alltrack Thread

[Emeye]

hornetrider said:

Don't know but it feels more responsive to me. Incidentally the whole set individual mode to sport settings doesn't work for me. It reverts to normal. By that I mean it says individual but it's not actually in sport.

Edited by hornetrider on Thursday 13th April 18:19

You tapped change and then set all the options for Sport etc?

When I start the engine, my Alltrack will be in individual mode and the gears will be in D, but as soon as I flick the gear lever back, the gears will go into S.

Edited by Emeye on Saturday 15th April 15:08

[Emeye]

tourerman said:

Mine went in to VW Stockport yesterday for the recall, it was just a software update.

Also got a safety / health check... front tyres are on 3.6mm and rear 5.5mm. Surprised there is such a big difference? Swap the front / rear around ? I'm only on 8500 miles!

Edited by tourerman on Friday 14th April 10:12

I plan to swap mine around - I've not had the recall letter yet.

[hornetrider]

Emeye said:

You tapped change and then set all the options for Sport etc?

When I start the engine, my Alltrack will be in individual mode and the gears will be in D, but as soon as I flick the gear lever back, the gears will go into S.

Edited by Emeye on Saturday 15th April 15:08

Yes but is that not missing the point? At any point I can flick it back into S. The point is individual mode is in sport, the car says I'm in individual mode so should be in sport, but the car isn't.

[Emeye]

hornetrider said:

Emeye said:

You tapped change and then set all the options for Sport etc?

When I start the engine, my Alltrack will be in individual mode and the gears will be in D, but as soon as I flick the gear lever back, the gears will go into S.

Edited by Emeye on Saturday 15th April 15:08

Yes but is that not missing the point? At any point I can flick it back into S. The point is individual mode is in sport, the car says I'm in individual mode so should be in sport, but the car isn't.

Yes, I see that but everything else is in Sport mode, other than the gears. The fact that the Radio volume is always set to zero when I flick over to it annoys me more! #seriousfirstworldproblems

[Ham_and_Jam]

Emeye said:

Yes, I see that but everything else is in Sport mode, other than the gears. The fact that the Radio volume is always set to zero when I flick over to it annoys me more! #seriousfirstworldproblems

Think you need to set that up, or you have a problem.

Radio is always OK for me, never known it to be zero.

Sure somewhere you have a default volume setting for each menu. Too many beers to look now though!

[hornetrider]

Mine defaults to zero volume after streaming then flicking back to radio.

[Emeye]

hornetrider said:

Mine defaults to zero volume after streaming then flicking back to radio.

Yup, sounds about right - I still fail to see how car companies think they can develop safe autonomous cars when they cannot even get simple things like this correct.

[hornetrider]

Indeed. These kind of software usability issues should be picked up very early in testing. Rubbish!

As much as a liked this car when it first turned up the drivetrain niggles and other little irritants have mounted to the point now where I can't wait to give it back and get myself into something decent.

Although I will say I am grateful for the cheap motoring, and still say the car is lovely inside and out. It's just a shame about, well, everything we've been moaning about

[Emeye]

hornetrider said:

Indeed. These kind of software usability issues should be picked up very early in testing. Rubbish!

As much as a liked this car when it first turned up the drivetrain niggles and other little irritants have mounted to the point now where I can't wait to give it back and get myself into something decent.

Although I will say I am grateful for the cheap motoring, and still say the car is lovely inside and out. It's just a shame about, well, everything we've been moaning about

Over 61k posts! You must really do some moaning.

I agree with you - this car is now just treated as a work tool - the first car I have ever owned which I don't really care about.

If you want to hack your VAG - take a look at an app called ODBeleven - think it may be Android only and you have to buy their own special bluetooth dongle - just spent 30mins in the company car park watching my colleague trying to use it to turn on cost option features for gratis. The important word there is "trying" - he hasn't quite managed it yet.

Though if he gets it working I'm hoping there may be a very cost effective way of enabling Appconnect/CarPlay for my last year of ownership.

[soupdragon1]

Emeye said:

Over 61k posts! You must really do some moaning.

I agree with you - this car is now just treated as a work tool - the first car I have ever owned which I don't really care about.

If you want to hack your VAG - take a look at an app called ODBeleven - think it may be Android only and you have to buy their own special bluetooth dongle - just spent 30mins in the company car park watching my colleague trying to use it to turn on cost option features for gratis. The important word there is "trying" - he hasn't quite managed it yet.

Though if he gets it working I'm hoping there may be a very cost effective way of enabling Appconnect/CarPlay for my last year of ownership.

Everyone loves a guinea pig

Let us know how your pal gets on with it. If it works, we'll all salute him. If not, we'll all have a good laugh at him

[hornetrider]

soupdragon1 said:

Everyone loves a guinea pig

Let us know how your pal gets on with it. If it works, we'll all salute him. If not, we'll all have a good laugh at him Emeye

[Emeye]

hornetrider said:

soupdragon1 said:

Everyone loves a guinea pig

Let us know how your pal gets on with it. If it works, we'll all salute him. If not, we'll all have a good laugh at him Emeye

Ha - I'll let see how the guys at work get on first. I once spend hours and hours getting VAGcom to work on my laptop just so I could turn on autolocking on one of my Mk1 TTs.

[hornetrider]

Just rang for a couple of first service quotes (oil and inspection).

Bristol - £246
Cardiff - £198

Guess I know where I'll be going

Edit:

Newport - £179!

Interesting spread!

Edited by hornetrider on Wednesday 19th April 16:32

[chr15b]

hornetrider said:

Emeye said:

You tapped change and then set all the options for Sport etc?

When I start the engine, my Alltrack will be in individual mode and the gears will be in D, but as soon as I flick the gear lever back, the gears will go into S.

Edited by Emeye on Saturday 15th April 15:08

Yes but is that not missing the point? At any point I can flick it back into S. The point is individual mode is in sport, the car says I'm in individual mode so should be in sport, but the car isn't.

The golf's do it too, even if you set the driver profile to sport, upon restart the profile is still sport but the gearbox is in D. The explanation I read was it was to stop the car being driven at high revs whilst the engine may not be up to temperature.

[hornetrider]

chr15b said:

The golf's do it too, even if you set the driver profile to sport, upon restart the profile is still sport but the gearbox is in D. The explanation I read was it was to stop the car being driven at high revs whilst the engine may not be up to temperature.

If that's the explanation it's rather silly. Simple bit of code to use Profile=D whilst temp<=90 or wotevs.

Rubbish!

[wemorgan]

Has anyone recently (this month) requested to adjust their mileage?
My father has recently tried as was quoted the full 7.2ppm.

[Emeye]

hornetrider said:

Just rang for a couple of first service quotes (oil and inspection).

Bristol - £246
Cardiff - £198

Guess I know where I'll be going

Edit:

Newport - £179!

Interesting spread!

Edited by hornetrider on Wednesday 19th April 16:32

Is that for the car telling you it needs a service or time based?

I ask as I received a letter last week saying the car had been taxed, along with a rather strong paragraph that reminded me I had to service the car to the required schedule, otherwise I would be subject to a charge on return, and the average charge they were billing was ~£400.

I have no idea what the service schedule is - I just expect the car to tell me when it needs a service!

[PenelopaPitstop]

I'm sure you can check in setting when the next service is due.

[hornetrider]

I said the car was telling me it was due in 2400 miles - and it was on variable servicing. Got told by all places I called that the service would be 'oil change and inspection'. Quite pleased with £179 - cheap as chips.

I hope I get a decent quote when I contact them for upping the mileage - 7.2ppm would be a bit of a bind!

[Emeye]

Funny isn't it that as a car enthusiast I've know exactly when every car I've owned was due a service?

This lease car I don't care about and I'm expecting to just put fuel in it and it tell me when it needs anything.

This laziness must come from my complete lack of attachment.