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Model specific boards => Golf mk7 => Topic started by: Finglonga on 27 October 2018, 09:13
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Anyone who has not done it yet don't forget the clocks change tonight/morning so you will need to change in manually OR if you have OBDeleven you can set it to automatic so you never need to worry about it again.
If you do it today you will see it worked in the morning. If you don't you will have to wait 6 months to see if it has worked. :grin:
Control Module..............Infotainment System
Adaptation................... Summertime-automatic
Set to:......................... Europe
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Thanks for the tip, off to set mine now! :smiley:
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Done!
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Thanks dude
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I honestly don't know why this isn't an option anyone can just set from the interface. I was quite surprised when I got in my car this morning and it hadn't updated the time automatically.
Seems like such an obvious setting
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Same here... Note to self: Code it for Spring 2019.
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That time of year agin....
(https://media.giphy.com/media/RJL3l2TKNBckg/giphy.gif)
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Don't forget to disable it in October 2021 :-)
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Thanks for the timely reminder!
Edit - I'll have to try again as it said it wasn't possible d'oh
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Don't forget to disable it in October 2021 :-)
Not in the UK. We’re sticking to the time changes.
Please don’t tell me BST/GMT isn’t automatic in my 34k GTI? It was automatic in a Vauxhall Astra which I owned 20 years ago FFS.
It’ll virtually drive itself but can’t adjust the time. Jeez.
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It's automatic if you enable it.
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I guess I'll enable it in time for the clocks to go back in the autumn lol.
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The effort this morning was immense. I had to go into the Time and date menu, click the BST box and press return... :grin:
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The effort this morning was immense. I had to go into the Time and date menu, click the BST box and press return... :grin:
The funny thing is I still had to go into the time and date menu this morning to select "automatic summer time" :grin:
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But this is the whole point. Vauxhall have had self-updating clocks for about 20 years. Admittedly it’s only a few clicks in the menu but the technology exists to change it automatically, it doesn’t cost them anything so why doesn’t it just do it. It’s annoying.
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Yep as above it should be coded from new, most other makers do it why don't VW or even the dealer.
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The effort this morning was immense. I had to go into the Time and date menu, click the BST box and press return... :grin:
The funny thing is I still had to go into the time and date menu this morning to select "automatic summer time" :grin:
Me too!!
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Never touched mine and the time adjusted itself :whistle:
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Never touched mine and the time adjusted itself :whistle:
That's what I was expecting after coding it on Saturday - I just didn't realise it also needed activating in the menu! Now I'll have to wait til the autumn for this joy :grin:
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Blimey you lot are fussy, you want the lights and wipers to sort themselves out, the car to park itself, to keep you in lane, brake itself, steer itself and tell you when you are too close to the car in front. AND set the clock twice a year! You may as well not bother and get taxis everywhere :rolleyes: :whistle: :wink: :laugh:
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Blimey you lot are fussy, you want the lights and wipers to sort themselves out, the car to park itself, to keep you in lane, brake itself, steer itself and tell you when you are too close to the car in front. AND set the clock twice a year! You may as well not bother and get taxis everywhere :rolleyes: :whistle: :wink: :laugh:
Of the above, I want automatic lights and wipers. And for the clock to set itself. The rest I can take or leave. But I don’t like comments from passengers who snigger that I have to adjust the clock myself when their 03 plate Corsa does it automatically. My MacBook, iPhone and PC update. So should the GTI. End of.
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Blimey you lot are fussy, you want the lights and wipers to sort themselves out, the car to park itself, to keep you in lane, brake itself, steer itself and tell you when you are too close to the car in front. AND set the clock twice a year! You may as well not bother and get taxis everywhere :rolleyes: :whistle: :wink: :laugh:
Of the above, I want automatic lights and wipers. And for the clock to set itself. The rest I can take or leave. But I don’t like comments from passengers who snigger that I have to adjust the clock myself when their 03 plate Corsa does it automatically. My MacBook, iPhone and PC update. So should the GTI. End of.
You should count yourself lucky. I had the added inconvenience of pressing a button to open the doors this morning. I was so disgusted at having to set the clock that I was actually thinking of selling up.
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On a more serious note does anyone know why mine offers a choice of setting the clock manually or via GPS, yet regardless which is selected you still have to set it manually? Or does that just apply to the time as opposed to the time zone?
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Blimey you lot are fussy, you want the lights and wipers to sort themselves out, the car to park itself, to keep you in lane, brake itself, steer itself and tell you when you are too close to the car in front. AND set the clock twice a year! You may as well not bother and get taxis everywhere :rolleyes: :whistle: :wink: :laugh:
Of the above, I want automatic lights and wipers. And for the clock to set itself. The rest I can take or leave. But I don’t like comments from passengers who snigger that I have to adjust the clock myself when their 03 plate Corsa does it automatically. My MacBook, iPhone and PC update. So should the GTI. End of.
It’s terrible isn’t. I had to unscrew the crown on my watch, pull the crown out once, flick the hour hand forward once, then rescrew the crown back in. A £12 Digital would probably do it for me! :grin:
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I think the point is, the car is ram packed with technology - yet something that costs the manufacturer nothing, yet would be genuinely useful isn’t included. Yes I know it’s easy enough to change but not when you’re already driving along and suddenly notice the time is wrong. Then forget to change it when you arrive at your destination. It just becomes an unnecessary annoyance and not very VW. Anyway rant over. If that’s my biggest gripe with the car, things can’t be bad at all. 😁
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It’s terrible isn’t. I had to unscrew the crown on my watch, pull the crown out once, flick the hour hand forward once, then rescrew the crown back in. A £12 Digital would probably do it for me! :grin:
Would that be a ROLEX GMT Jim?
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It’s terrible isn’t. I had to unscrew the crown on my watch, pull the crown out once, flick the hour hand forward once, then rescrew the crown back in. A £12 Digital would probably do it for me! :grin:
Would that be a ROLEX GMT Jim?
Yes, the one click hour hand gave it away! :nerd:
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Yes, the one click hour hand gave it away! :nerd:
Thought so, did you know that only moves the hour hand and not the GMT hand? That function is intended for trips on aeroplanes between time zones keeping the GMT hand on local time. To correctly go forward or back an hour and keep the hour and GMT hands in sync you should stop the watch and wind the minute hand round 60. This moves both and keeps the two aligned.
I too have one in case you were wondering... Here's mine having a wash. :cool:
(https://i.postimg.cc/25d6L9CX/GMT-wash.jpg)
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On a more serious note does anyone know why mine offers a choice of setting the clock manually or via GPS, yet regardless which is selected you still have to set it manually? Or does that just apply to the time as opposed to the time zone?
GPS (like most things military) broadcasts time in ZULU (GMT, UTC+0). So you need to apply the local time zone offset to it if you want local time... not that the military ever use local time anyway, its always ZULU, to avoid confusion in global operations...
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Yes, the one click hour hand gave it away! :nerd:
Thought so, did you know that only moves the hour hand and not the GMT hand? That function is intended for trips on planes between time zones keeping the GMT hand on local time. To correctly go forward or back an hour and keep the hour and GMT hands in sync you should stop the watch and wind the minute hand round 60. This moves both and keeps the two aligned.
I too have one in case you were wondering... Here's mine having a wash. :cool:
Snap - blue black is what I have as well :cool: Yes, hour hand clicks back and forth for easy changing of hours - think for pilots originally. The annoying bit is a date change as have to wind it round twice to move date by one!
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Snap - blue black is what I have as well :cool: Yes, hour hand clicks back and forth for easy changing of hours - think for pilots originally. The annoying bit is a date change as have to wind it round twice to move date by one!
It is a pilots watch and that is why you can click the hour hand back and fourth so easily and yes, date change is more of a pain than on the Submariner for example.
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Not sure if the 8 does it now but for those with the Mk7.
(https://c.tenor.com/FNZx6b0MfIkAAAAM/bump-gross.gif)