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Title: Touchscreen
Post by: MrJollygood on 29 January 2019, 08:40

This morning on the way to work the touchscreen in my Mk7 GTi decided it was no longer a touchscreen. All other functions work fine but it doesn't register my touch?!?!! (Yes I took my gloves off first  :tongue:)

Is there a way to reset the unit? Anyone else experienced similar? I'm stuck on Radio 4  :sick:

Greig

Title: Re: Touchscreen
Post by: fredgroves on 29 January 2019, 09:26

How down the power button for 5-10 seconds and it will reboot...

Title: Re: Touchscreen
Post by: Robo999 on 29 January 2019, 09:34

Mines started changing radionstations on its own lately.. which is nice. Or if its on sat nav screen it selects random places on the screen. Seems to something to do with the heating of the car when its cold.  :huh:

Title: Re: Touchscreen
Post by: Vwjap on 29 January 2019, 09:46

Quote from: Robo999 on 29 January 2019, 09:34

Mines started changing radionstations on its own lately.. which is nice. Or if its on sat nav screen it selects random places on the screen. Seems to something to do with the heating of the car when its cold.  :huh:

sure you haven’t turned gesture control on?

Title: Re: Touchscreen
Post by: Robo999 on 29 January 2019, 10:05

No i dont believe mine has gesture control. Its nav pro 2.

Title: Re: Touchscreen
Post by: MrJollygood on 29 January 2019, 10:33

I'll try rebooting - thanks. Yeah, I wondered if it's to do with the extreme of cold then heat...

Title: Re: Touchscreen
Post by: MrJollygood on 30 January 2019, 15:26

All good again this morning...

Title: Re: Touchscreen
Post by: Darlo on 30 January 2019, 15:41

Hi,

It could be the start of a reasonably common fault in the early mk7’s. Had two replaced in my old mk7 GTI and one replaced in the mrs old GTD.

Only ever happened when it was cold. VW couldn’t fault it when it went in much to our annoyance.... despite me informing them it only happened in sub zero temps. Ended up filming it and emailing them the video to prove fault.

Not sure if yours is still under warranty but if it is film it and they will replace it.

Title: Re: Touchscreen
Post by: MrJollygood on 30 January 2019, 21:33

Fingers crossed it doesn't happen again. Waaaaay out of warranty...

Title: Re: Touchscreen
Post by: Ryan90GTI on 30 January 2019, 23:19

Mine did this this morning too. I guess it doesn't like cold mornings either. Turned it off and on again and it was fine.

Title: Re: Touchscreen
Post by: fredgroves on 31 January 2019, 07:46

The NavPro on my 14 plate GTD used to do this btw... I'm not sure its a hardware fault, but just maybe a design issue.

Possibly later units overcame the problem - and it always was super cold mornings.

Title: Re: Touchscreen
Post by: kmpowell on 31 January 2019, 09:20

You might want to have a read of this thread, started in 2013 but contributions all the way through to 2016:

https://www.golfmk7.com/forums/showthread.php?t=2290

Looks like a common/known issue.