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Model specific boards => Golf mk6 => Topic started by: p3asa on 10 October 2009, 23:18
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Static cornering lights: What is the point of these? I know it is meant to illuminate the side of the road you are cornering in but it doesn't light it up that much. In fact all I think it does is make people think you are flashing at them. Or if you pull over to pick someone up they tell you, you only have one light working!! I was in front of a Golf the other night and the lights were on and off more than an on and off thing!!
Fuel Cap: Every car I have had has had some attachment for the fuel cap to attach to while you remove it from the car to fill up. With the Golf it just seems to hang down and rub against the paintwork. Is this correct?
Windscreen wipers: I washed the car today and usually I would lift the wipers to get the glass clean but this can't be done in the Golf!!
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Static cornering lights: What is the point of these? I know it is meant to illuminate the side of the road you are cornering in but it doesn't light it up that much. In fact all I think it does is make people think you are flashing at them. Or if you pull over to pick someone up they tell you, you only have one light working!! I was in front of a Golf the other night and the lights were on and off more than an on and off thing!!
Fuel Cap: Every car I have had has had some attachment for the fuel cap to attach to while you remove it from the car to fill up. With the Golf it just seems to hang down and rub against the paintwork. Is this correct?
Windscreen wipers: I washed the car today and usually I would lift the wipers to get the glass clean but this can't be done in the Golf!!
Windscreen wipers, if you move the wiper stalk the blades will move to upright position for cleaning :smiley: Do you get an extra light come on to the way that your turning?, The Xenons on mine both lights turn with the steering not an extra light comes on :wink:
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Cheers didn't know that about the wipers.
The fog lights on my GT double as static cornering lights and flash on and off like a Christmas tree when I'm turning obviously to light up the way I am turning into. I presume the lights on the GTi are the same?
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Cheers didn't know that about the wipers.
The fog lights on my GT double as static cornering lights and flash on and off like a Christmas tree when I'm turning. I presume the lights on the GTi are the same?
My wifes Pug GT was like that you could turn them off via the display (very annoying) Different with Xenons both beams turn when cornering not flash on nd off like a christmas tree
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i like the little routine the xenons go through on start up. does a little up and down and the to the sides and back again. like a morning stretch! :grin:
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i like the little routine the xenons go through on start up. does a little up and down and the to the sides and back again. like a morning stretch! :grin:
Sweet I want to see it!
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i like the little routine the xenons go through on start up. does a little up and down and the to the sides and back again. like a morning stretch! :grin:
thats what i miss most about the xenons.... brilliant at the petrol station, all the cashiers think you have gone nuts :laugh:
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i like the little routine the xenons go through on start up. does a little up and down and the to the sides and back again. like a morning stretch! :grin:
Lol :smiley:
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i like the little routine the xenons go through on start up. does a little up and down and the to the sides and back again. like a morning stretch! :grin:
Yes they look great, level themselves up and then centerise, looks like their dancing or as you say doing a morning stretch, Xenons on the R just went up and down on start up,
Gti 1s look class :cool:
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Sussed the fuel cap, (its amazing what you find when you read the manual) it clips on to the top of the filler flap.
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Sussed the fuel cap, (its amazing what you find when you read the manual) it clips on to the top of the filler flap.
nasty grade of plastic though isnt it? :sad:
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Sussed the fuel cap, (its amazing what you find when you read the manual) it clips on to the top of the filler flap.
nasty grade of plastic though isnt it? :sad:
Every time i take my fuel cap off the rubber sealing ring is stuck to the filler neck, have to pull it off and put back into the cap :angry:
not going to make a journey to dealers just for that thou but it is annoying
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Sussed the fuel cap, (its amazing what you find when you read the manual) it clips on to the top of the filler flap.
Be careful with this - same on the mk5's you might end up scratching the paint on your filler cap by hanging the cap this way. I usually just unscrew and hold it whilst filling.
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If the look of the last polo GTI is anything to go by (similar to the Golf mk5 GTI) i expect the new one to look alot like the mk6 golf GTI.
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If the look of the last polo GTI is anything to go by (similar to the Golf mk5 GTI) i expect the new one to look alot like the mk6 golf GTI.
Mmmm take it that was for the Polo thread :rolleyes:
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yes, no idea how it ended up here as i did not think i had read this thread till now.
As im full of flu and feeling :sick: i must have clicked something incorrectly.
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hi hi hi since I do not have an english manual... any pics as to how the petrol cap fits on the flap?
hi hi hi
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i like the little routine the xenons go through on start up. does a little up and down and the to the sides and back again. like a morning stretch! :grin:
Yeah it's smart is that also I notice a lot of people turning to look when my car is going through it's morning ritual: up, down and to the left and now to the right!!
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My Mrs is out in it just now but I believe it is the same as the older golfs. It has a couple of notches on the actual filler cap, these just sit on top of the flap.
I'd imagine though it would just scratch the flap after continued use.
I must just remove the strap and put the filler cap on the petrol pump like the good old days :laugh:
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But it's so embarrassing when you drive off without it....
My Peugeot had a little cup on the inside of the flap that let you slot the cap in while it was being filled. I drove off without putting the cap back in a couple or three times over the years, but at least when I noticed (or someone flashed me!) the cap was still there, and not ten miles back.
Rolfe.
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Just hang it over the cap... simple
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I injured my left foot, and currently immobile... ha ha ha... if not, I will have whizzed down to check my filler cap. Thanks p3asa... hi hi hi...
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Yeah most cars I have had, you could hang the cap onto something rather than it rubbing against the paintwork.
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Sussed the fuel cap, (its amazing what you find when you read the manual) it clips on to the top of the filler flap.
nasty grade of plastic though isnt it? :sad:
Every time i take my fuel cap off the rubber sealing ring is stuck to the filler neck, have to pull it off and put back into the cap :angry:
not going to make a journey to dealers just for that thou but it is annoying
glad you mentioned that mine does it to,have to be carefull you don`t lose the o ring when you take the petrol cap off
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Sussed the fuel cap, (its amazing what you find when you read the manual) it clips on to the top of the filler flap.
nasty grade of plastic though isnt it? :sad:
Every time i take my fuel cap off the rubber sealing ring is stuck to the filler neck, have to pull it off and put back into the cap :angry:
not going to make a journey to dealers just for that thou but it is annoying
glad you mentioned that mine does it to,have to be carefull you don`t lose the o ring when you take the petrol cap off
Thats the only niggle ive had so not a lot to woory about really, get dealer to sort when i'm in the area, not just mine then?