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Offline fredgroves

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Re: GTD Sound Actuator
« Reply #200 on: 17 September 2017, 11:56 »
Individual mode is a piece of cake Jeni.

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Press the mode button (left of the gearstick, nearest the dash). This brings up a menu on the infotainment screen. Choose individual mode, then choose configure.

In that menu you can set "engine" and "exhaust" noise levels.

Click ok and job done.
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Re: GTD Sound Actuator
« Reply #201 on: 17 September 2017, 18:32 »
Individual mode is a piece of cake Jeni.

No degree in mechanical engineering with a minor in computer science required.

Press the mode button (left of the gearstick, nearest the dash). This brings up a menu on the infotainment screen. Choose individual mode, then choose configure.

In that menu you can set "engine" and "exhaust" noise levels.

Click ok and job done.

Damn it i was looking forward to the vodka and slippers too  :grin: :evil:

Thanks for this sounds easy enough

Offline Jonny_D_1987

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Re: GTD Sound Actuator
« Reply #202 on: 16 October 2017, 19:04 »
Just reading through all this and im not sure if my GTD has this at all. Its an Aug 2014, got it last November. When i have it in sport mode, i swear theres a growl from inside the cabin. I currently have mine set up the same as p3asa (individual mode with the engine on sport) as I also think the steering is too heavy in Sport.

How could I find out if mine has the s&s pack ? As I said im convinced it sounds much louder and sportier when I have sport mode on?

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Offline mcmaddy

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Re: GTD Sound Actuator
« Reply #203 on: 16 October 2017, 19:07 »
You'll be hearing the internal speaker.
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Offline Jonny_D_1987

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Re: GTD Sound Actuator
« Reply #204 on: 16 October 2017, 20:14 »
So if i'm hearing the internal speaker, is there the external speaker too?

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Re: GTD Sound Actuator
« Reply #205 on: 16 October 2017, 20:33 »
So if i'm hearing the internal speaker, is there the external speaker too?

If you have the sport and sound pack you will also have red brake callipers. If they are silver then you will just have the inboard soundaktor.
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Re: GTD Sound Actuator
« Reply #206 on: 18 October 2017, 13:49 »
Looking to order a GTD in the coming weeks, I looked on the online configurator and couldn't see the option for sport and sound pack - is this still offered?
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Re: GTD Sound Actuator
« Reply #207 on: 18 October 2017, 15:41 »
Looking to order a GTD in the coming weeks, I looked on the online configurator and couldn't see the option for sport and sound pack - is this still offered?

No. This seems to have been dropped when the mk7.5 facelift Golf was launched.
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Re: GTD Sound Actuator
« Reply #208 on: 02 April 2018, 12:05 »
I've just ordered a new 18 plate GTD and the sound and sport pack is no longer offered on the MK7.5 an enhanced sound (audio) package is available though but nothing to do with exhaust notes.

I do believe that ABT sell a plug and play sound enhancer which enhances external noise, I'm trying to find out if it's available in the UK. This would suggest that the GTD does have an external exhaust note enhancer anyway or am I wrong?
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Re: GTD Sound Actuator
« Reply #209 on: 03 April 2018, 09:27 »
Technically, its illegal to modify the exhaust noise of a vehicle over and above the factory noise level... (under The Road Vehicles (Construction and Use) Regulations 1986)

I'm not sure where a third party fake noise generator would sit, but 2016 also introduced EU wide tighter noise limits for vehicles, which probably suggests that this is why VW removed the Sport and Sound pack from the GTD around the same time?
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