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Model specific boards => Golf mk7 => Topic started by: pixelcellar on 16 June 2020, 12:17
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Hi all
I've finally taken delivery of my 7.5 PP and found that it had no start/stop or keyless entry on it which I thought was odd as it comes as bog standard. My car was built last week of November 2019 and apparently according to the dealers VW removed this facility a few weeks before for an undisclosed reason.
Question is, A) Is this a fob off, B) Should I be bothered (everything else is present AFAIK) and C) Anyone hear anything about this at all?
Thoughts appreciated...
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Mine was built in September 2018 so it sneaked in pre the 2019 MY spec
Stop / Start I have - but turn it off - I hate it and it feels counterintuitive to warm up / warm down a turbo engine
Keyless - I don’t have and wouldn’t want anyway after having it on a previous car.
I wouldn’t worry.
I assume you have the rear view camera - which I ordered as an extra - again, had that on a previous car and would have missed it.
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There hasn't been keyless on 3 doors for a long old time.
I don't think we ever figured out why.
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@pixelcellar - if your car is as per your signature details; a three door car, then keyless entry wasn’t available on the three door in the later production years of the Golf.
As for stop start - I thought this was standard fitment on all UK spec VW cars and has been for a good few years. It will have helped VW achieve their emissions and mpg targets for the GTI so why would they remove it? A 2019 Golf GTI performance model should definitely have it, so assuming your car is UK spec, you should have it. Do you have the button down by the gear lever / DSG shifter to be able to manually switch stop start on and off?
Edit; stop start was standard on the base model Golf S in the May 2020 price list (the last mk7.5 price list?) - it’s listed under ‘efficiency’ at the bottom right section of page 9 - so this feature wasn’t removed from late 2019. Link to price list below;
https://www.volkswagen.co.uk/files/live/sites/vwuk/files/pdf/Brochures/golf-p11d.pdf
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I'm guessing it's the start push button that's missing as all UK cars have start/stop functionality.
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Sorry guys, my wording was a bit poor, I have the auto start/stop when you stop driving, but no start/stop button for when you get in and want to fire it up.
Sounds like it's not a thing for 3dr's which I wasn't aware of :-(
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the start button is part of the keyless pack and its not on 3 doors for some time...
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Thanks all, had no idea the button wasn't on 3dr, was never told nor did I ask as I'd seen plenty of interior pics with said button. Hey ho, no major issue, least I don't have to worry about stashing my keys in a faraday box thing :-)
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Found it.... end of October 2015 it stopped on 3 door:
http://www.golfgtiforum.co.uk/index.php?topic=276063.msg2523435#msg2523435
(Evo1986 is a VW main dealer and provides those sort of updates on here)
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I read all 4 pages of that thread and I still don’t know why VW removed keyless and push button ignition from the 3 door :undecided:
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No, I have no idea other than maybe they didn't get many people spec'ing it on 3 door and the door lock mechanism was specific to the 3 door.... guess that was probably it.
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Could be more 3 door Gris are getting stolen via that method
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TBH, I didn't realise that 3 door performance Golf's were being sold anymore - thought they has discontinued them a while back ?
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I got one of the last, made late November, has been sitting in a showroom for 6 months, would have had it back in April had Covid not struck and only just got delivery! Glad I scraped in there to get a 7.5 though, its a lovely car, preferred by me to the mk8 too.
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I got mine in late 2016 and I think it was one of the first batch of 3 doors not to be offered with keyless so it's been a thing for quite a while. I heard at the time it was due to a parts shortage and they were only being fitted to 5 doors but that can't have been the case if it was still the case with 2019 / 2020 cars. I can't say that it has ever bothered me.