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Model specific boards => Golf mk6 => Topic started by: evo1986 on 04 May 2011, 12:19
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Rear-view camera removed from ordering
03 May 11
0582-11
The rear-view camera has been withdrawn from ordering for all models with immediate effect. We will provide you with more information as soon as we have it.
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This has been talked about on other forums and the dealers won't fit one later when it arrives.
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Pity - one of the best options i've ever had. Just need to be carefull not to totally rely on it and keep your eyes peeled.. :smiley:
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Ditto. Its the first extra I would look for in any future car.
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I'm racking my brain to try and think of a reason why they have removed it.
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It's a handy extra i find. I really can't think why they've done this all of a sudden?
Surely can't be a safety thing can it?
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I can only think of two reasons, someone has sued or is in the process of suing VW on a safety issue (which isn't as mad as it seems in our EU health and safety nanny world) or the things fail so often that VW are chucking the idea in the bin until a more reliable method can be thought up for the mk7 which involves less moving parts and thus cost (not that they'll charge any less for it).
Thinking about it, maybe someone has just forgotten to order a load at the factory, the same guy who forgot to order enough paint, engines, DSGs, RNSs, RCDs and whatever else it was. :smiley:
Someone at our workplace recently forgot to order any bog roll or paper towels so I reckon the loos will be full of second hand newspapers torn into strips soon.........
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My bet is the number of failures.
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I must be missing something, I`ve not read of any failures, and mine is working perfectly...
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Are they still available to retro fit?
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VW saw sense and got rid of an unreliable gimmick. :evil:
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Never has a problem with mine either, even the snow last year didn't stop it???
I reckon if someone is suing them then its someone who didn't use it right and didn't use there mirrors in conjunction with the camera and probably wrote there car off :grin:
Its an excellent piece of kit :smiley:
cough cough another VW cost cutting exercise, I bet it will be one of these only available on higher end car i.e touareg and pheatons
Darren
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VW saw sense and got rid of an unreliable gimmick. :evil:
Lol, looks like this comment is more about envy and of regret at not ordering one :evil:
I love my camera, it's a great tool.
Jim
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Lol, looks like this comment is more about envy and of regret at not ordering one :evil:
I love my camera, it's a great tool.
Jim
Don't give a toss what you think Mr. Tool.
Tried the wretched thing before I ordered and it is crap on a dark rainy night, which is the norm more often than not in this country. I am very satisfied with my front and rear sensors. End of. :tongue:
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I think the camera is one of the best novelty options on the car!
£155 seems like a bargain to me - and everyone who is ever in the car thinks its brilliant... especially when you make them get outside and watch the badge open!!
Perhaps VW will change to the cheap numberplate light style ones instead?
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Lol, looks like this comment is more about envy and of regret at not ordering one :evil:
I love my camera, it's a great tool.
Jim
Don't give a toss what you think Mr. Tool.
Tried the wretched thing before I ordered and it is crap on a dark rainy night, which is the norm more often than not in this country. I am very satisfied with my front and rear sensors. End of. :tongue:
I disagree, i find it works best in dark wet conditions, now sunlight on the screen! :angry: :angry:
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Never has a problem with mine either, even the snow last year didn't stop it???
I reckon if someone is suing them then its someone who didn't use it right and didn't use there mirrors in conjunction with the camera and probably wrote there car off :grin:
Its an excellent piece of kit :smiley:
cough cough another VW cost cutting exercise, I bet it will be one of these only available on higher end car i.e touareg and pheatons
Darren
I wonder whether it was one of our american friends...perhaps someone put the car into reverse then booted it expecting it to park itself. Bit like cruise control and getting in the back for a kip..... :grin:
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^^ :grin:
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Love mine. retro fitted by darren and works like a dream.
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Possibly component shortage from earth quake......
Spoke to a customer today who said same about certain cameras in the next few months are going to become harder to get.
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Strange.....i orderd my new GTi yesterday (retrofit xenon was to much work, so orderd a new GTi with xenon :drool:) but the camera option was still on....
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I disagree, i find it works best in dark wet conditions, now sunlight on the screen! :angry: :angry:
+1. It's awesome in low-light conditions.
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Strange.....i orderd my new GTi yesterday (retrofit xenon was to much work, so orderd a new GTi with xenon :drool:) but the camera option was still on....
That's what you think : )
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Just got back from the states and the advert for the passat cc seemed like it was on every 20 minutes! And guess what the big selling point was..........
Yup, the rear camera! Could this be the reason we can't have it? Because the yanks are having them all!! :angry:
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Wouldn't put it past VW,
Example I ordered an R32 main front grill baring in mind I paid nearly £400 for it at the dealers :angry: it was on back order for 6 months because the yanks wanted the grills with no holes in them :angry: so the grills that where being made where all bound for the USA. I cancelled my order in the end and bought a full GTI front end :wink:
Darren
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My dealer says the camera is on hold because of the earthquake in Japan........
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Well I ordered the parts for the camera kit today for a retro fit and there are plenty available and no stock advisory notes on the system so it doesn't appear to be a supply issue :undecided:
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Could it have anything to do with new models possibly having DAB? I don't think it's possible to combine the two for some reason.
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Could it have anything to do with new models possibly having DAB? I don't think it's possible to combine the two for some reason.
New Models having DAB, where's that come from? I might have missed it in the MY2012 Spec somewhere to be fair!
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New Models having DAB, where's that come from? I might have missed it in the MY2012 Spec somewhere to be fair!
I'm just guessing that all models will have DAB at some point. I don't know when this will be though.
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New Models having DAB, where's that come from? I might have missed it in the MY2012 Spec somewhere to be fair!
I'm just guessing that all models will have DAB at some point. I don't know when this will be though.
I bought a new GTI, due to deliver next week, i retro fitted a camera in my 2009model, i want to get it out of my 2009 GTi and build the cam in my new GTi, so you say it don't work??
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New Models having DAB, where's that come from? I might have missed it in the MY2012 Spec somewhere to be fair!
I'm just guessing that all models will have DAB at some point. I don't know when this will be though.
Roller coaster....you take me high and drop me low....was all excited I might have gotten it when I didn't even order it then.. :sad:
Still the way my VW Orders they'll have cars that fly before I get a Mk6.