Headlight washers standard on GTI?

[Jules Winfield]

yeah have , genius invention , on cold un- welcome leather , but fabric that's never really cold seems very expensive at over 300 sobs !

Each to their own.

I have cloth seats and I couldn't live without the heated option.  When I've been outside scraping frost off the car or lugging my car cover around to the back of the house to hang up to defrost, it's a godsend getting into the car and having the seat warm me up.  It's also less distracting than having the fan on at high speed blasting warm air around the cabin - I can leave it on the setting that directs the air towards the windscreen and leave the speed at 2 or 3.

The seat may or may not be cold.  But I certainly am.

[monkeyhanger]

yeah have , genius invention , on cold un- welcome leather , but fabric that's never really cold seems very expensive at over 300 sobs !

Each to their own.

I have cloth seats and I couldn't live without the heated option.  When I've been outside scraping frost off the car or lugging my car cover around to the back of the house to hang up to defrost, it's a godsend getting into the car and having the seat warm me up.  It's also less distracting than having the fan on at high speed blasting warm air around the cabin - I can leave it on the setting that directs the air towards the windscreen and leave the speed at 2 or 3.

The seat may or may not be cold.  But I certainly am.

Great for piles too I would imagine!

I'd rather have a heated steering wheel - nothing worse than hands cold and aching from scraping ice in sub zero temperatures, just a 5 min blast of warmth would do it - has any car manufacturer ever put out a heated steering wheel option?

[CraigW]

yeah have , genius invention , on cold un- welcome leather , but fabric that's never really cold seems very expensive at over 300 sobs !

Each to their own.

I have cloth seats and I couldn't live without the heated option.  When I've been outside scraping frost off the car or lugging my car cover around to the back of the house to hang up to defrost, it's a godsend getting into the car and having the seat warm me up.  It's also less distracting than having the fan on at high speed blasting warm air around the cabin - I can leave it on the setting that directs the air towards the windscreen and leave the speed at 2 or 3.

The seat may or may not be cold.  But I certainly am.

Great for piles too I would imagine!

I'd rather have a heated steering wheel - nothing worse than hands cold and aching from scraping ice in sub zero temperatures, just a 5 min blast of warmth would do it - has any car manufacturer ever put out a heated steering wheel option?

I'm sure there are a few out there. I think some Mercedes may have them but its definitely been done before

[JohnP]

BMW have a heated steering wheel option, it comes with the winter pack.....

[Jimble]

Range rover do heated SW as do Jaguar.




Edit: Standard on the Toureg R line i specced on the configurator!

[matchboy]

Range rover do heated SW as do Jaguar.




Edit: Standard on the Toureg R line i specced on the configurator!

On my brothers RR he sets the seats and steering wheel to heat up automatically so that when gets in the car in the morning they are toasty warm - now that's an option I'd pay for!!

[p3asa]

Hi guys! Is this a standard option on the gti or do you have to pay for the winter pack?

It is my understanding that any vehicle fitted with xenon headlights must have headlight washers by law.

J

I don't think it is the law as there are a couple of Audis that have xenon lights but no headlamp washing system. It does say the headlamps are coated in some nano technology so maybe that is how they get round it.

Also I hired a basic Vauxhall Corsa learner car and it had heated seats and heated steering wheel. Couldn't believe it.

[Gnasher]

Even the Astra VXR has a heated SW option!!

Which (to be honest) is the only other car I am considering. Although with the paint problems they are having on the only colour I would consider (Arden Blue) I am still steering towards the GTI. I am in the lucky position of being able to buy tax free, which makes a vanilla build VXR £2k cheaper than the GTI - however I feel the GTI residuals, build quality (although the new VXR is  miles ahead of my Mk1 VXR) and running costs will win me over in the end!