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Model specific boards => Golf mk6 => Topic started by: Steve30 on 29 April 2010, 09:09

Title: Reading the Manual?
Post by: Steve30 on 29 April 2010, 09:09
Do people on here read there manual's when they got there new car's?

I still havent even looked at my one yet!! :rolleyes:
Title: Re: Reading the Manual?
Post by: Awry on 29 April 2010, 09:16
Yep, and I enjoy it too. It's one of those rituals I do whenever I get a new car. Had my first wash and wax last weekend too. It's nice to get to know Madison.  :grin:
Title: Re: Reading the Manual?
Post by: ajmoir36 on 29 April 2010, 17:27
Yup all 300 odd pages of the Car manual and what ever number of pages of the audio manual.
Title: Re: Reading the Manual?
Post by: Steve30 on 29 April 2010, 17:36
Yup all 300 odd pages of the Car manual and what ever number of pages of the audio manual.

I'm impressed, I just havent been botherd at all, I never even looked at my Ed30 manual!! Get your car sorted yet? :wink:
Title: Re: Reading the Manual?
Post by: DDRFan on 29 April 2010, 18:58
i'm wading my way through the manual - found out about windscreen wiper service mode and how to correctly strap up your pregnant misses to the chair, complete with saggy milk producing boobies

(http://img691.imageshack.us/img691/8027/pregnantseatbelt.jpg)
Title: Re: Reading the Manual?
Post by: simonpolly on 29 April 2010, 19:02
Real men do not read instructions :wink: :grin:
Title: Re: Reading the Manual?
Post by: Steve30 on 29 April 2010, 19:02
Looks like s couple of fried eggs
Title: Re: Reading the Manual?
Post by: Steve30 on 29 April 2010, 19:04
Real men do not read instructions :wink: :grin:
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indeed they don't , good to be a man!! :drool:
Title: Re: Reading the Manual?
Post by: ajmoir36 on 29 April 2010, 20:01
Yup all 300 odd pages of the Car manual and what ever number of pages of the audio manual.

I'm impressed, I just havent been botherd at all, I never even looked at my Ed30 manual!! Get your car sorted yet? :wink:

Goes in Tuesday is its first date with VW, for some work.  Most likely the last day I will see it for a while.  :cry:
Title: Re: Reading the Manual?
Post by: JellyCat on 30 April 2010, 00:03
oh yes - sat in the car for about 2-3 hours reading the manual and playing with the car. Picked it up at 18:30 also so was dark out as well lol
Title: Re: Reading the Manual?
Post by: ErikGTI on 30 April 2010, 09:10
oh yes - sat in the car for about 2-3 hours reading the manual and playing with the car. Picked it up at 18:30 also so was dark out as well lol

Took me 2-3 days reading the manual.... :shocked:
Mind you it carries hardly any surprises for me anymore.... :cool:
Title: Re: Reading the Manual?
Post by: p3asa on 30 April 2010, 11:16


Took me 2-3 days reading the manual.... :shocked:
Mind you it carries hardly any surprises for me anymore.... :cool:

I found www.ownerwelcome.com (http://www.ownerwelcome.com) full of surprises. Like the wipers never resting on the same ledge twice in a row, hence why they twitch occasionally.

Title: Re: Reading the Manual?
Post by: Snoopy on 30 April 2010, 20:54


Took me 2-3 days reading the manual.... :shocked:
Mind you it carries hardly any surprises for me anymore.... :cool:

I found www.ownerwelcome.com (http://www.ownerwelcome.com) full of surprises. Like the wipers never resting on the same ledge twice in a row, hence why they twitch occasionally.


Mine do that everytime i start the car  :grin:
Title: Re: Reading the Manual?
Post by: Snoopy on 30 April 2010, 20:55
Real men do not read instructions :wink: :grin:
yes but real men can normally work it out. Most owners on here just post a question to ask when they should just have RTFM.  :evil: :grin:
Title: Re: Reading the Manual?
Post by: Steve30 on 30 April 2010, 21:00
RTFM what's it mean Snoopy? :wink:
Title: Re: Reading the Manual?
Post by: am1w on 30 April 2010, 21:02
Real men do not read instructions :wink: :grin:
yes but real men can normally work it out. Most owners on here just post a question to ask when they should just have RTFM.  :evil: :grin:

Still have not read the manual. :rolleyes:
Now I feel really butch! :laugh:
Thanks for the re-confirmation!
Title: Re: Reading the Manual?
Post by: am1w on 30 April 2010, 21:04
RTFM what's it mean Snoopy? :wink:

I think it is Read The Fcuking Manual! :wink:

PS: Imagine Snoops swearing! :shocked:
Title: Re: Reading the Manual?
Post by: Steve30 on 30 April 2010, 21:08
RTFM what's it mean Snoopy? :wink:

I think it is Read The Fcuking Manual! :wink:

Sounds like Snoopy's coming out sideways with that??? :evil:
Title: Re: Reading the Manual?
Post by: am1w on 30 April 2010, 21:10
RTFM what's it mean Snoopy? :wink:
I think it is Read The Fcuking Manual! :wink:
Sounds like Snoopy's coming out sideways with that??? :evil:

lol! :laugh:
Title: Re: Reading the Manual?
Post by: Snoopy on 30 April 2010, 21:23
RTFM what's it mean Snoopy? :wink:

I think it is Read The Fcuking Manual! :wink:

PS: Imagine Snoops swearing! :shocked:
Its also one of my error codes on a product at work, well in truth it displays OERTFM# which meens operator error, read the F###### manual  :evil:
Title: Re: Reading the Manual?
Post by: GolfTi on 30 April 2010, 23:37
Can't quite believe you spend this sort of money on a car and miss out on the absolute pleasure of reading the manual(s)
once or twice. :huh:

You should all be made to read it before you are allowed to take delivery.

Blokes don't need or read DIY manuals or TV instructions - but a Golf GTI??  Shameful.
Title: Re: Reading the Manual?
Post by: am1w on 01 May 2010, 09:44
Can't quite believe you spend this sort of money on a car and miss out on the absolute pleasure of reading the manual(s)
once or twice. :huh:
You should all be made to read it before you are allowed to take delivery.
Blokes don't need or read DIY manuals or TV instructions - but a Golf GTI??  Shameful.

I stand duly admonished! :embarassed:
Title: Re: Reading the Manual?
Post by: Steve30 on 01 May 2010, 10:10
Can't quite believe you spend this sort of money on a car and miss out on the absolute pleasure of reading the manual(s)
once or twice. :huh:

You should all be made to read it before you are allowed to take delivery.

Blokes don't need or read DIY manuals or TV instructions - but a Golf GTI??  Shameful.

That's becasue I'm a bloke & a man :rolleyes:
Title: Re: Reading the Manual?
Post by: Snoopy on 01 May 2010, 11:33
The manual is rubbish. Hard to follow, and the warning to keep americans happy everywere are a pain. Its a shambles imo.
Title: Re: Reading the Manual?
Post by: am1w on 01 May 2010, 11:43
The manual is rubbish. Hard to follow, and the warning to keep americans happy everywere are a pain. Its a shambles imo.

Us bloley men would anyway never admit to reading boring things like that. Might read it when I am on the bog! :sick: :grin:
Rather do something else with my valuable free time like preening Wolfgang! :kiss:
Now where is that double-dating site for all purposes and tastes? :evil: :laugh: 
Title: Re: Reading the Manual?
Post by: RickS on 02 May 2010, 09:15
Can't quite believe you spend this sort of money on a car and miss out on the absolute pleasure of reading the manual(s)
once or twice. :huh:

You should all be made to read it before you are allowed to take delivery.

Blokes don't need or read DIY manuals or TV instructions - but a Golf GTI??  Shameful.

I just love the smell and feel of a new manual and it's neat [in this case] leather folder, but I only scan read it, then look at it in more detail as, when and if I find things I'm not sure about. :cool:
Title: Re: Reading the Manual?
Post by: DDRFan on 02 May 2010, 14:59
Can't quite believe you spend this sort of money on a car and miss out on the absolute pleasure of reading the manual(s)
once or twice. :huh:

You should all be made to read it before you are allowed to take delivery.

Blokes don't need or read DIY manuals or TV instructions - but a Golf GTI??  Shameful.
i would agree with some of those points you made, but i am under the belief that controls and how to operate something should be intuitive or just familiar or made common sense so you don't necessarily have to read the instructions. it would be a very stupidly designed car if how to operate it required going through the *whole* manual.
Title: Re: Reading the Manual?
Post by: Steve30 on 02 May 2010, 15:11
Can't quite believe you spend this sort of money on a car and miss out on the absolute pleasure of reading the manual(s)
once or twice. :huh:

You should all be made to read it before you are allowed to take delivery.

Blokes don't need or read DIY manuals or TV instructions - but a Golf GTI??  Shameful.
i would agree with some of those points you made, but i am under the belief that controls and how to operate something should be intuitive or just familiar or made common sense so you don't necessarily have to read the instructions. it would be a very stupidly designed car if how to operate it required going through the *whole* manual.

Good point there my friend  :grin:
Title: Re: Reading the Manual?
Post by: am1w on 02 May 2010, 15:47
It's like referring constantly to the kamsutra before sexual activities! :grin:
Title: Re: Reading the Manual?
Post by: gizzywizzy on 02 May 2010, 19:27
It's like referring constantly to the kamsutra before sexual activities! :grin:


 :rolleyes: :grin:
Title: Re: Reading the Manual?
Post by: DDRFan on 02 May 2010, 19:59

Good point there my friend  :grin:
Reminds me of this segment of Top Gear when they do a piece on old cars and the non-standardised controls. If conventional controls weren't on every car, I don't think motoring would be what it is today with all the number of cars we have and what we use them for going to work and everything else, and if it was there would be millions of more accidents. At least when we get in a GTI, it's familiar enough for all of us to drive and get it moving.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NtwC1bqyW2c#t=2m07s
Title: Re: Reading the Manual?
Post by: gizzywizzy on 02 May 2010, 20:38
The manual is all foreign to me :grin: I just get in the driving seat and play with everthing until I know what it is and what it does  :grin:  much more fun than wading thru something that makes my dvd instruction manual look easy  :laugh:

Gizzy
Title: Re: Reading the Manual?
Post by: am1w on 02 May 2010, 20:42
The manual is all foreign to me :grin: I just get in the driving seat and play with everthing until I know what it is and what it does  :grin:  much more fun than wading thru something that makes my dvd instruction manual look easy  :laugh:
Gizzy

I have spent a total of 5 mins max 'reading' the manual, 4 of those was trying to find it as I had mislaid it!
....and at that time I was on the forum having a banter with you! :kiss:
Talk about multi-tasking, darling! :laugh:
Title: Re: Reading the Manual?
Post by: gizzywizzy on 02 May 2010, 20:57
The manual is all foreign to me :grin: I just get in the driving seat and play with everthing until I know what it is and what it does  :grin:  much more fun than wading thru something that makes my dvd instruction manual look easy  :laugh:
Gizzy

I have spent a total of 5 mins max 'reading' the manual, 4 of those was trying to find it as I had mislaid it!
....and at that time I was on the forum having a banter with you! :kiss:
Talk about multi-tasking, darling! :laugh:


I knew it :smug: not just a mere man but a genius too :laugh: Oh but there were not 300 odd miles between thee and me :grin:

Gizzy
Title: Re: Reading the Manual?
Post by: GolfTi on 02 May 2010, 21:14
As sad as it may sound I don't need to read the manual I just want to.

I've had a mk4 and mk 5 so most things are much the same.

Thing is with such a fantastic bit of kit as this I want to know every little thing about it.

Just imagine you don't read the manual and are driving around with your DRLs on when you can't stand them or lock your keys in the boot because of the auto locking system.

TV manual - unopened.
Blue ray player manual - unopened.
Golf GTI manual - read several times.

Title: Re: Reading the Manual?
Post by: gizzywizzy on 02 May 2010, 21:17
As sad as it may sound I don't need to read the manual I just want to.

I've had a mk4 and mk 5 so most things are much the same.

Thing is with such a fantastic bit of kit as this I want to know every little thing about it.

Just imagine you don't read the manual and are driving around with your DRLs on when you can't stand them or lock your keys in the boot because of the auto locking system.

TV manual - unopened.
Blue ray player manual - unopened.
Golf GTI manual - read several times.




 :grin:

Gizzy
Title: Re: Reading the Manual?
Post by: am1w on 02 May 2010, 21:18
TV manual - unopened.
Blue ray player manual - unopened.
Golf GTI manual - read several times.

Kamasutra opened once, remembered forever and practised constantly! :laugh:
Title: Re: Reading the Manual?
Post by: gizzywizzy on 02 May 2010, 21:23
TV manual - unopened.
Blue ray player manual - unopened.
Golf GTI manual - read several times.

Kamasutra opened once, remembered forever and practised constantly! :laugh:

 :laugh:
Title: Re: Reading the Manual?
Post by: Snoopy on 03 May 2010, 18:27
Just imagine you don't read the manual and are driving around with your DRLs on when you can't stand them or lock your keys in the boot because of the auto locking system.
  :grin:
Title: Re: Reading the Manual?
Post by: ErikGTI on 03 May 2010, 18:34
TV manual - unopened.
Blue ray player manual - unopened.
Golf GTI manual - read several times.

Kamasutra opened once, remembered forever and practised constantly! :laugh:

Nice to know you not only read but also memorized my book.....took me a good week to write....  :lipsrsealed: