GolfGTIforum.co.uk

Model specific boards => Golf mk6 => Topic started by: Snoopy on 08 August 2010, 17:51

Title: Keyless start, new steering wheel buttons, dials photos
Post by: Snoopy on 08 August 2010, 17:51
(http://i96.photobucket.com/albums/l186/nickmhs2008/gti.jpg)

(http://i96.photobucket.com/albums/l186/nickmhs2008/gti1.jpg)

(http://i96.photobucket.com/albums/l186/nickmhs2008/gti2.jpg)

(http://i96.photobucket.com/albums/l186/nickmhs2008/gti3.jpg)



Title: Re: Keyless start, new steering wheel buttons, dials photos
Post by: VWKev on 08 August 2010, 17:55
Love the keyless start button, not fussed over the rest.
Title: Re: Keyless start, new steering wheel buttons, dials photos
Post by: FroGTI on 08 August 2010, 17:55
Wow, you've got keyless start :cool: How does that work, then? What does the key/card look like? Do you have keyless entry, too?
Title: Re: Keyless start, new steering wheel buttons, dials photos
Post by: Snoopy on 08 August 2010, 17:59
I don't have it, just found some photos of it. :wink:

It explains it all in the cars manual. under KESS or something like that. Well in my manual it does anyway  :grin:
Its not a keycard like renaults its just the fob and it works like the nissan version. Buttons on the door handles and ignition.
Title: Re: Keyless start, new steering wheel buttons, dials photos
Post by: david25 on 08 August 2010, 18:04
Do all GTI's have that red line around the dials?
Title: Re: Keyless start, new steering wheel buttons, dials photos
Post by: Steve30 on 08 August 2010, 18:09
That gear lever is very nice :drool: so when is the push button start coming through?
Title: Re: Keyless start, new steering wheel buttons, dials photos
Post by: Snoopy on 08 August 2010, 18:15
^ As its in the manual i guess it all depends when VWuk make it an option.

Do all GTI's have that red line around the dials?
Only model year 2011 ie the ones in the past couple of months.
Title: Re: Keyless start, new steering wheel buttons, dials photos
Post by: mike. on 08 August 2010, 18:18
The start/stop button looks like a bit of an after thought. It would look better down by the gear lever.

How do you just turn on the ignition, without starting the car, on these systems. Do you just press the button once without holding it in.
Title: Re: Keyless start, new steering wheel buttons, dials photos
Post by: am1w on 08 August 2010, 18:22
I like my key :rolleyes: as I can use it as a weapon to protect myself with when the need arises. :rolleyes:
Title: Re: Keyless start, new steering wheel buttons, dials photos
Post by: p3eps on 08 August 2010, 18:25
I wish that'd been available when I bought my car!
I'd quite like the keyless entry - as long as it wasn't an expensive option.
I wonder if it will actually come to the UK, or be one of these things that we don't get.

I agree though - it does look a bit like an afterthought... although technically it is!  They've just stuck a button where the lock barrel should be!
Title: Re: Keyless start, new steering wheel buttons, dials photos
Post by: JulesS3 on 08 August 2010, 19:32
Why do you care if your car is keyless, you can get nissan micras with keyless entry  :rolleyes:

Key in, twist, clutch down and start. Not hard.
Title: Re: Keyless start, new steering wheel buttons, dials photos
Post by: am1w on 08 August 2010, 19:36
Why do you care if your car is keyless, you can get nissan micras with keyless entry  :rolleyes:
Key in, twist, clutch down and start. Not hard.

It's for people who cannot use their thumb and index finger together or adequately or for those who are thumbless. :evil:
Title: Re: Keyless start, new steering wheel buttons, dials photos
Post by: Dawnskaybug on 08 August 2010, 19:44
If your wife drives the car all she needs is the fob in her purse it senses her unlocks the doors when she touches the handle and then all you do is press the start button.
I had it in my Lexus IS350 and really miss it . No keys to stab you if your hands are full no worries.
Title: Re: Keyless start, new steering wheel buttons, dials photos
Post by: illyun on 08 August 2010, 19:49
I think its really neat... however, I don't think my Mk6 coming in late August/early September will feature this, because the car has probably been stood in a warehouse Jeddah for 6 months or so  :rolleyes:
Title: Re: Keyless start, new steering wheel buttons, dials photos
Post by: am1w on 08 August 2010, 20:00
I think its really neat... however, I don't think my Mk6 coming in late August/early September will feature this, because the car has probably been stood in a warehouse Jeddah for 6 months or so  :rolleyes:

Have a Saudi moment with them and insist and insist. Rrrreeeaaaallllyyyy, Yallah, Wallah, Habeebi, Kosuckta, Zubba fa Teezak! :grin:
Title: Re: Keyless start, new steering wheel buttons, dials photos
Post by: ajmoir36 on 08 August 2010, 20:31
I wish that'd been available when I bought my car!
I'd quite like the keyless entry - as long as it wasn't an expensive option.
I wonder if it will actually come to the UK, or be one of these things that we don't get.

I agree though - it does look a bit like an afterthought... although technically it is!  They've just stuck a button where the lock barrel should be!

I think its a great idea having it where the barrel should be as, I had a BMW 118d as a hire car the other daily stalled it (clutch was massively heavy compared to the Golf) and went for the keys in a panic wheres the keys, oh keck the button is on the left of the steering wheel.  What a keck idea.
Title: Re: Keyless start, new steering wheel buttons, dials photos
Post by: mike. on 08 August 2010, 21:51
New dials at night..

(http://img541.imageshack.us/img541/3811/img20100808001147.jpg)
Title: Re: Keyless start, new steering wheel buttons, dials photos
Post by: MarcGTD on 08 August 2010, 22:11
Hmm, not sure about the red around the dials, quite like it without, wonder if my GTD will have those?

The keyless entry/start is handy - with my current X-Trail, there's been many a time where I've come back from a business trip away with my keys somewhere in my briefcase/backpack and rather than dig them out, I can just get in the car sling the bag into the passenger seat and and start the engine.  That said, it's not something I'd pay extra for (just happened to be included as standard) - it's handy but by no means essential. 
Title: Re: Keyless start, new steering wheel buttons, dials photos
Post by: Snoopy on 08 August 2010, 22:14
I like my key :rolleyes: as I can use it as a weapon to protect myself with when the need arises. :rolleyes:
mine likes to flick open in my pocket  :shocked:  :huh:
Title: Re: Keyless start, new steering wheel buttons, dials photos
Post by: am1w on 08 August 2010, 22:16
Ouch!
Title: Re: Keyless start, new steering wheel buttons, dials photos
Post by: Ess_Three on 09 August 2010, 06:14
Why do you care if your car is keyless, you can get nissan micras with keyless entry  :rolleyes:

Key in, twist, clutch down and start. Not hard.

Got to agree...not fussed at all about it.
Presumably it's aimed at the DSG drivers who like the car to do most of the driving for them.  :evil:
Title: Re: Keyless start, new steering wheel buttons, dials photos
Post by: illyun on 09 August 2010, 12:27
I think its really neat... however, I don't think my Mk6 coming in late August/early September will feature this, because the car has probably been stood in a warehouse Jeddah for 6 months or so  :rolleyes:

Have a Saudi moment with them and insist and insist. Rrrreeeaaaallllyyyy, Yallah, Wallah, Habeebi, Kosuckta, Zubba fa Teezak! :grin:

Lol... I don't know what the second half of that means, but safe to say I don't think the dealer will retro-fit keyless start and they would probably make a hash of it even if they could  :grin: :grin: :grin: :grin:
Title: Re: Keyless start, new steering wheel buttons, dials photos
Post by: am1w on 09 August 2010, 13:03
illyun:
First 3 are expressions, last 2 swear words in Arabic for the male private part and the act of having sex! They use them all the time especially towards foreigners. :sick: :angry:
Title: Re: Keyless start, new steering wheel buttons, dials photos
Post by: Snoopy on 10 August 2010, 18:16
Got to agree...not fussed at all about it.
Presumably it's aimed at the DSG drivers who like the car to do most of the driving for them.  :evil:
I like your thinking.  :evil:
Title: Re: Keyless start, new steering wheel buttons, dials photos
Post by: Steve30 on 10 August 2010, 18:23
Got to agree...not fussed at all about it.
Presumably it's aimed at the DSG drivers who like the car to do most of the driving for them.  :evil:
I like your thinking.  :evil:

How much is the option? i'm intrested on the next motor twin turbo diesel??? :smug:
Title: Re: Keyless start, new steering wheel buttons, dials photos
Post by: Snoopy on 29 August 2010, 14:02
From reading on the R forum it seems keyless is available on the scirocco soon. So maybe it will come to the golf too.

(http://i954.photobucket.com/albums/ae23/rforum/scirocco_my2011_changes.jpg)