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Model specific boards => Golf mk4 => Topic started by: Dempsey on 27 May 2009, 00:11

Title: onboard computer for mpg, etc
Post by: Dempsey on 27 May 2009, 00:11: hi, just a quick question here, i did search on here and google, but to no avail.
do all mk4 1.8T GTi's come with an onboard computer?
or is it only after a certain year?
reason im asking is im going to look at a 1999 T plate GTi on friday, and he says it has one, but when looking other 99 T plates, they dont seem to have them on the clocks?
can anyone clear this up for me?
Title: Re: onboard computer for mpg, etc
Post by: Wazzzer on 27 May 2009, 08:40: up until 2000 I think they were optional but after that the half display came as standard fitment

Mine doesn't have the display and it's a T plater (99) but I have seen other T platers with them
Title: Re: onboard computer for mpg, etc
Post by: Dempsey on 27 May 2009, 09:10: right ok, so im guessing your talking about the half display in the centre of clocks? so after 2000, they all came with this display?
so what about previous to 2000?
did they come with a trip computer to tell you mpg, etc at all?
possibly not in that particular display?
Title: Re: onboard computer for mpg, etc
Post by: T_J_G on 27 May 2009, 09:13: Yeah, but as Wes said it was in the little LCD display in the bottom left window (the one used for time if the car has the larger screen in the middle)
Title: Re: onboard computer for mpg, etc
Post by: Dempsey on 27 May 2009, 09:29: excellent, thats fine then :)
thanks guys!
Title: Re: onboard computer for mpg, etc
Post by: dubcruiser on 27 May 2009, 10:13: Just to add, I had a 98 "S" plate back in 2002 and mine had the computer in the bottom of the rev counter. I thought they were standard on the Turbo at least...
Title: Re: onboard computer for mpg, etc
Post by: Wazzzer on 27 May 2009, 10:14: trip is taken care of by the same readout as the mileage if you don't have the half display in the middle.

No readout for MPG if you don't have the centre display though I'm afraid
Title: Re: onboard computer for mpg, etc
Post by: dubcruiser on 27 May 2009, 10:18: Quote from: Wazzzer on 27 May 2009, 10:14
trip is taken care of by the same readout as the mileage if you don't have the half display in the middle.

No readout for MPG if you don't have the centre display though I'm afraid

As said in my post above, my "S" plate didn't have the half screen that my "03" does, but still had the full computer but its shown in the rev counter display...
Title: Re: onboard computer for mpg, etc
Post by: T_J_G on 27 May 2009, 10:26: Quote from: Wazzzer on 27 May 2009, 10:14
trip is taken care of by the same readout as the mileage if you don't have the half display in the middle.

No readout for MPG if you don't have the centre display though I'm afraid

That's wrong. My 98 TDI had MPG readout on the little screen.
Title: Re: onboard computer for mpg, etc
Post by: dubcruiser on 27 May 2009, 10:28: Quote from: T_J_G on 27 May 2009, 10:26
Quote from: Wazzzer on 27 May 2009, 10:14
trip is taken care of by the same readout as the mileage if you don't have the half display in the middle.

No readout for MPG if you don't have the centre display though I'm afraid

That's wrong. My 98 TDI had MPG readout on the little screen.

Agreed Tim :wink:
Title: Re: onboard computer for mpg, etc
Post by: Wazzzer on 27 May 2009, 10:47: Really? I stand corrected then
Title: Re: onboard computer for mpg, etc
Post by: Dempsey on 27 May 2009, 10:55: right, so this 99 T plate GTi im going to look at WILL definately have a mpg reading below the rev counter if it doesnt have the centre display?
Title: Re: onboard computer for mpg, etc
Post by: T_J_G on 27 May 2009, 10:57: Quote from: Dempsey on 27 May 2009, 10:55
right, so this 99 T plate GTi im going to look at WILL definately have a mpg reading below the rev counter if it doesnt have the centre display?

Yes. It should do
Title: Re: onboard computer for mpg, etc
Post by: Wazzzer on 27 May 2009, 11:00: no, mine is a 99 T with no centre display and no MPG reading
Title: Re: onboard computer for mpg, etc
Post by: T_J_G on 27 May 2009, 11:02: Quote from: Wazzzer on 27 May 2009, 11:00
no, mine is a 99 T with no centre display and no MPG reading

Really, what do you have under the rev counter?
Title: Re: onboard computer for mpg, etc
Post by: Wazzzer on 27 May 2009, 11:02: just a clock :sad:
Title: Re: onboard computer for mpg, etc
Post by: Dempsey on 27 May 2009, 11:07: right, im really confused now, lol
Title: Re: onboard computer for mpg, etc
Post by: T_J_G on 27 May 2009, 11:11: Dempsey: Look at the car if it doesn't have the red bit in the middle, press the buttons on the end of the right hand stalk and see if anything changes.
Title: Re: onboard computer for mpg, etc
Post by: jeynesey on 27 May 2009, 11:35: Quote from: Wazzzer on 27 May 2009, 11:02
just a clock :sad:

Are you 100% sure mate? Im on an S plate turbo, has clock mpg, av mpg etc. Just need to click the buttons on the end of the stalk for the wiper contols???..
Title: Re: onboard computer for mpg, etc
Post by: Wazzzer on 27 May 2009, 11:55: no buttons on the end of my stalk (ooo er)
Title: Re: onboard computer for mpg, etc
Post by: Dempsey on 29 May 2009, 23:05: all clear, i have got the centre display, so its all good :)
its a 99 T plate by the way, is this normal?
Title: Re: onboard computer for mpg, etc
Post by: Wazzzer on 29 May 2009, 23:24: yeah like I said they were optional. The guy who ordered mine must have been a tight arse :grin:
Title: Re: onboard computer for mpg, etc
Post by: Steve_PD on 29 May 2009, 23:28: Full FIS FTW :cool:
Title: Re: onboard computer for mpg, etc
Post by: Wazzzer on 29 May 2009, 23:30: sod off you, I've got to put up with my poverty spec display :cry: