New car handbook - 230pages anyone read it?

[monkeyhanger]

Also want to know where in the passenger footwell the fire extinguisher goes?
There IS a place according to some overseas references but I cannot find the exact position.
Help please.

Overseas models might not have the underseat drawers, giving the room for the extinguisher. IMO, if you have a car fire, you get out, you get the other occupants out and retreat to a safe distance - let the fire brigade and insurance sort out the rest, rather than risking your life going back for a fire extinguisher.would only possibly extinguish a tiny fire.

Have you ever seen someone pop the bonnet to look at a fire in the engine compartment? Whoosh - a little fire is a huge one in seconds when a bit more air gets to it.

[iandjm]

I use it to find out what doesn't work as the manual says lol

[monkeyhanger]

I use it to find out what doesn't work as the manual says lol

You'd be amazed what some markets do and don't get as standard and even what is configurable as options in other markets. Maybe a better place to look is VW's German website configurator via a Chrome browser translation.

[Mike J]

Some EU countries demand you carry a fire extinguisher, on my Mk5 I strapped it (well the holding frame) under the drivers seat.
The tip of checking VW Germany is the best idea.

Likewise I believe the warning triangle comes as standard in VWs in many EU countries.
Certainly its often obligatory to carry one, plus I have had cars rejected during the MOT tests on the continent because I wasnt carrying one, though I was given time to go to the garage next door and buy one so I could avoid the re-test fee.

Couldn't sort how the ACC worked from the handbook, so watched a Youtube video on it and got the gist immediately and used it for the first time today, brilliant technology and light years ahead of my old Golf.

Next query, as I turned into the drive I would swear the front lights turned in the direction of steer, now thats something else I have to look up.......sometime 

[Booth11]

Next query, as I turned into the drive I would swear the front lights turned in the direction of steer, now thats something else I have to look up.......sometime 

Cornering Lights. 

Your mk7 Golf has two kinds of cornering lights - Dynamic which are part of the main headlight, and Static which is a separate bulb (the middle one in your headlights). 

http://www.volkswagen.co.uk/technology/glossary/cornering-light-dynamic

http://www.volkswagen.co.uk/technology/glossary/cornering-light-static

The static cornering lights bulb is a very yellow light and some like to upgrade this to a brighter bulb which gives much better light and is a better match for the xenon main lamp.  I updraged my static cornering light very recently.

http://www.golfgtiforum.co.uk/index.php?topic=275792.msg2550049#msg2550049

[Mike J]

Hey, thanks for that 

From what Ive read these cornering lights can be re-adjusted for continental driving and as I intend to drive through Holland, France, Spain and Portugal next spring and these new lights will make things so much easier.

Im also planning to make a few more upgrades, LED boot and interior change, fit the extinguisher somewhere, find a place to store the spare bulb&fuse pack and first aid kit and source a suitable drivers seat cover to name but a few.

Ive also seen a type of warerproof sock that fits around the central load hatchway so skis can be carried without the wet stuff getting into the interior, not that Im a skier but it would certainly be useful for my fishing rods 

Promise I will post the results on the appropriate area when the time comes.

[fredgroves]

Yeah, you don't need to stick those beam deflector things on, just go into the car setup menus and tell it to swap to driving on the right. Lights (all of them, not just the cornering ones) adjust electronically. One click.

No bloody stickers that you try to apply in the dark in driving rain at the ferry port any more!

[Mike J]

Thanks for that Fred.
You have saved me all the time I would waste going thro all the warning pages before I unearthed and then deciphered the correct procedure.
Now I will just press the CAR button and go find it.


Amazing things these forum handbooks, someones always got the answer (where were they in the '60's  )

[fredgroves]

Its under the lighting in the menu, but I am sure you can find it.

In the 60's I was playing with Corgi toy cars, so couldn't have helped you then

[Mike J]

In the 60's I was playing with Corgi toy cars, so couldn't have helped you then

You were probably one of the little bu##ers playing football in the road while I was blatting around trying to miss you 
Problem was one of them was the son of the station sargent and he set up a sting and got me fair and square, my own stupid fault but it taught me a sound, if somewhat expensive lesson.

Quickly sold the car for one with a less conspicuous paint job, didnt work tho.