I’ve had my Gti since November. I’ve posted in the new members section with details. I’ve swapped from a 7.5 PP.
From the start the keyless entry was hit and miss, working on average 60% of the time I approached the car with the key in my pocket. I don’t know if it’s supposed to lock when you walk away from the vehicle, but mine never has.
On average, every other journey brings an error message. Usually to say the road sign recognition is temporarily unavailable or that front assist isn’t working. The messages are accompanied by an icon on the dash. These remain for 5 minutes max. Once, the yellow triangle with the exclamation mark appeared. I was on my way home, so parked on the drive, got the handbook, turned off the engine and went inside. Having established what the symbol could be notifying me about I returned to the car, started the engine and the symbol had disappeared.
I have connected my iPod and for a couple of weeks this worked fine. Now it plays the track I was listening to last time, then freezes and won’t move on to the next track. Steering wheel buttons and those on the media screen have no effect. I have to bring up the track listing on the touchscreen, find the track and select the next one. After that it performs normally.
All these are irritating, but yesterday I drove for about 20 minutes, all normal, but when I got back to the car the touchscreen was dead and I had 5 error messages on the dash. Neither front or rear sensors are working. The ever annoying lane assist never fails to work, but without the touchscreen I can’t turn it off.
I’ve phoned the dealers and it’s booked in for Thursday. Don’t know if anyone else is suffering, but other forums seem to agree that the software problems that dogged the Mk8, delaying its launch, are far from solved.
I’ll post again when I get the car back.