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Model specific boards => Golf mk8 => Topic started by: TonyJ on 05 May 2023, 17:41
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After almost 3 years away from this Golf forum, I'm pleased to be back.
Whilst away, I've been driving a T-Roc R - nice car - and today I took delivery of a mk8 GTD (after having mk7 and mk7.5 GTDs in the past)
Hopefully I'll find lots of answers to my inevitable questions by searching this forum, but one initial one ....
When driving in D (not sport mode), can you see which gear you are in? In my T-Roc, it displayed D1, D2, D3 etc., which I found surprisingly useful. Can't see how to do the same in the Golf.
Thanks
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Hi Tony, to answer your question No, unfortunately it is not possible even using OBD.
Maybe someone knows different and if they do I'd love to enable it myself.
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Welcome back TonyJ
As above, the gears for some reason are kept secret in normal drive mode.
What’s the T-Roc R been like? An interesting car and not many about.
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The T Roc R was a lovely car, and as you say, there are not many about.
A group of us got a very good lease deal through VWFS, just as the factory was starting up again after Covid.
It's very fast, especially in Sport or Race mode. Handling is absolutely brilliant - you just point it in any direction and it sticks to the road like glue. With 4WD, I never had any wheel spin or tramping even with the quickest start.
It did not come with adaptive dampers, so I found the suspension quite hard until I got used to it.
Two negatives from my perspective. The interior trim was quite cheap and plasticy, considering it's the top of the range. The other is the poor fuel economy. I never got over about 35mpg, even on a smooth motorway run. Quite a change from my previous GTDs where I would easily get 50+ mpg ! However, no-one gets an R for good fuel economy !
The roads round by where I live are always very busy, so I didn't have many opportunities to take advantage of what the R has to offer. However, on the few occasions where I was on a quiet, windy road, it was really great.
I was sad to say goodbye to it today, but also excited at getting back into a GTD !
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35 mpg is not too bad for T-Roc R. My Tiguan R only manages around +25 mpg on an average run with fast/slower sections during a journey and no more than around 30 mpg max on a gentle economical run. But it is a larger heavier car than the T-Roc R though. However it doesn't seem much different on fuel/mpg than my previous car a MK8 Golf R with Performance Pack, which i found a touch more thirsty for fuel than my std MK7 Golf R. The best for fuel economy was my Golf GTI, but it only managed around +/- 35 mpg at best.
Hope you enjoy your Golf GTD.
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Good to read your thoughts on the T-Roc R TonyJ (interesting to see your economy figures too Brenbo).
What spec is the GTD? I do see a few around which is good as I’ve always been a GTD fan and it goes to show people do still care about decent fuel mileage yet still want a dynamic hatch despite the vilification shown these days.
Brenbo, the roads down our way just don’t lend themselves to decent fuel economy. Hills, bends, more hills…
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Interesting read on the different VW’s.
On subject of fuel economy, I’ve just come back from a 2 day trip to Yeovil, which is about a round trip of 448 miles, virtually all motorway and fast(ish) A roads with some short sections of twist turny stuff. Indicated average Mpg was 43.4, two passengers and whilst not clogging it, not hanging about either.
I rarely do long distances so always interested in what I did Mpg wise.
Previous car Mpg would have been high twenties.
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Fully agree Exonian about types of roads affecting mpg in cornwall and devon. The other major contributor to mpg in our neck of the woods is either farmers driving their tractors between fields or holiday makers causing conjestion/build up of traffic on the roads and possibly driving slower on occasions than maybe locals might drive on B roads in the local area.
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I hate to ask but here goes.... Did the T-Roc R suffer Bongs?
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My Tiguan R hasn't had bongs or false errors yet, so hopefully the T-Roc R hasn't either
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Funnily enough after not having seen an example of either in ages, yesterday afternoon/evening I saw a T-Roc R as I passed Screwfix on my way home and this morning I saw a Tiguan R, both in Lapiz.
Boy was the Golf dwarfed by the Tiguan when they were side by side at the traffic lights.
Lovely looking cars both, the boxy VW styling suits the SUV size far better than those hideous Mercedes and BMW efforts.
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The Tiguan R is best described as a XL mk7 agolf on stilts
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It’s sheer size makes it look better value for money 😁 (better looking than the Golf too)
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Our next door neighbour has a T-Roc (not an R), and they picked it over a Golf because they can't parallel park for sh!t and they thought the T-Roc would be more resilient in bumping up the kerb every day (his words).
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I hate to ask but here goes.... Did the T-Roc R suffer Bongs?
No, absolutely nothing. No software issues at all (or any other issues).
Totally trouble-free driving.
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I hate to ask but here goes.... Did the T-Roc R suffer Bongs?
No, absolutely nothing. No software issues at all (or any other issues).
Totally trouble-free driving.
@TonyJ; if your T-Roc R was a pre-facelift model (the facelift T-Roc was launched at the end of 2021) it’ll have conventional interior controls - i.e. physical buttons, knobs and switches and proper buttons on the steering wheel - and use an earlier generation of software than the current crop of VW models. That might explain why you didn’t have any software issues with your car.
Same with my car - a pre-facelift 2020 Polo GTI+ with conventional interior controls and previous generation software which has also been free of software issues. Owners of the facelift Polo GTI model running the latest generation software and with interior functions now accessed via touchscreens have also experienced similar software issues to mk8 Golf owners.
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I hate to ask but here goes.... Did the T-Roc R suffer Bongs?
No, absolutely nothing. No software issues at all (or any other issues).
Totally trouble-free driving.
@TonyJ; if your T-Roc R was a pre-facelift model (the facelift T-Roc was launched at the end of 2021) it’ll have conventional interior controls - i.e. physical buttons, knobs and switches and proper buttons on the steering wheel - and use an earlier generation of software than the current crop of VW models. That might explain why you didn’t have any software issues with your car.
Same with my car - a pre-facelift 2020 Polo GTI+ with conventional interior controls and previous generation software which has also been free of software issues. Owners of the facelift Polo GTI model running the latest generation software and with interior functions now accessed via touchscreens have also experienced similar software issues to mk8 Golf owners.
Yes, my T-Roc was manufactured summer 2020, with actual buttons on the steering wheel, rotary switches for climate etc.
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Not sure why they went down a different route than VW and Cupra, but my new S3 has physical buttons on the steering wheel and climate (rather than the haptic controls that seem to attract so much criticism - especially on the steering wheel, but I always found them fine). No bongs at all. My only criticism is that the symbol that tells you you're too close to the car in front (even though it leaves a 3 second gap) is bright red, looking an awful lot like a low oil warning light.