How big is the fuel tank - really??

[Teutonic_Tamer]

For the additional options you get I doubt it will be worth it, id imagine VW will pull your pants down on the cost of getting it fitted.

....I don't think it is worth the very high cost of changing from Mid to Highline. You can easily change settings via VAS or VCSD(VAGcom). I regretted not ordering Highline at first but not any longer.

Yeah, I agree with Robin.  Whilst the highline IS handy, and is a real no-brainer if you are ordering a brand new car - most of its functions are usually just a 'set once and forget' affair.  A mate with vag-com, or even most dealers are happy to tweak the same settings which the highine does for nowt - or a few beers, or a tip for the workshop tea-swindle at worst.

Are there many things you can customise?  Any chance I could get a list of things that are adjustable, so I can decide whether there is anything I'd like to go to a dealer and have changed?

Strewth - let me see if I can remember off the top of my head:

• Door locking - can set 'auto locking', 'auto unlocking', single door remote unlock (press the remote twice for all doors), all doors unlock
• Indicators - 'comfort' indicators on or off (comfort is three flashes for lane change if you ease the indicator stalk)
• Door mirror adjustment - synchro or individual adjustment
• Footwell lighting - change the brightness from between 0% to 100%
• Coming home & leaving home lighting - changes the individual time delay for operation
• Units of measurement - change between metric or imperial
• Language - change the language of the displays
• Display info detail - allows you to pick and choose weather to have one or two trip computers, and also which info is displayed
• TPMS - allows you to change settings for winter wheels (also allows a warning for lower speed limits when using space-saver spare or winter wheels)
• Speed limit warning - allows you to set an 'overspeed' alert

Think that is about all.  I may have got some confused with my Audi - that has a lap timer too! 

[Emeye]

My bleedin problem is getting the damn fuel in there!!!!

It must click off 15 times trying to fill from empty!

Think I may have a problem.....

Not really.  You have to lift out the nozzle so it is only just inside the filler neck, and then just gently squeeze the trigger - try to only sqeeze the trigger enough not to actually get it to click stop.  But it does take an eternity.  :embarassed:

Oh, some Total pumps have a higher delivery rate, and they can be a right mare!  I generally don't even bother trying with them.  And another 'oh' - some Tesco pumps have quite a short time duration before they automatically cut the power to the pump, so with some Tesco pumps, you may only be able to get say 5 litres in, before the pump 'times-out'.

But I've not had this problem with ANY of my recent cars - no problem with my BMW 5 series, 3 series or Mini Cooper, my MX5, my Leon Cupra, my Audi A4, any of the company cars I've borrowed etc etc And this is at the same local petrol stations where the pumps are still the same with the pump handle on full!

So it's either a design fault on the golf or mine is dodgy!

[AlanD]

FYI my midline has a speed limit warning function. What sort of person buys a 200bhp GTI and has a speed limit warning lol

[Teutonic_Tamer]

My bleedin problem is getting the damn fuel in there!!!!

It must click off 15 times trying to fill from empty!

Think I may have a problem.....

Not really.  You have to lift out the nozzle so it is only just inside the filler neck, and then just gently squeeze the trigger - try to only sqeeze the trigger enough not to actually get it to click stop.  But it does take an eternity.  :embarassed:

Oh, some Total pumps have a higher delivery rate, and they can be a right mare!  I generally don't even bother trying with them.  And another 'oh' - some Tesco pumps have quite a short time duration before they automatically cut the power to the pump, so with some Tesco pumps, you may only be able to get say 5 litres in, before the pump 'times-out'.

But I've not had this problem with ANY of my recent cars - no problem with my BMW 5 series, 3 series or Mini Cooper, my MX5, my Leon Cupra, my Audi A4, any of the company cars I've borrowed etc etc And this is at the same local petrol stations where the pumps are still the same with the pump handle on full!

So it's either a design fault on the golf or mine is dodgy!

Read my posts again, correctly and fully!

I actually explained that it was just a simple design 'quirk' of some hatchbacks.  I also went on to explain that some saloon cars don't appear to have the same design quirk, and I specifically highlighted that the Audi A4 does NOT share the Golf 'design feature'! 

[Teutonic_Tamer]

FYI my midline has a speed limit warning function. What sort of person buys a 200bhp GTI and has a speed limit warning lol

Probably those same peeps who own a GTI (or similar high performance car) - but never take the engine above 3,000rpm, 'because the engine might blow up' !!! 

[RedRobin]

Also, even when the display says I've got 0 miles left (after a countdown with the fuel pump symbol) I've had another 20 miles.

You might want to try a little experiment.  Let us say you have been caning your car for the last half hour or so, giving it some serious beans - and you notice the fuel light come on at say 25 miles remaining - when that happens, then change your driving style to that of a granny (Driving Miss Daisy  ).  What you should actually find is that the miles remaining will actually start to increase, and you may actually be able to get 40, 50 or even 60 miles - when previously the miles remaining said 25.  This is because the trip computer constantly 'recalcualtes' the miles left based on your current driving style.

....Exactly this happened recently. So I've now completed this particular piece of homework! I realised at the time that it was possibly recalculating on-the-fly - All clever stuff and very helpful.

[jphealy]

Yeah, I can set the speed limit warning with my midline.  I wonder how high you can set it - I must try setting it at 200kph for the craic.

Thanks a mil for the list T_T.  Don't think there's really anything there I feel like changing.  If I had the highline I'd probably mess with the settings until the novelty wore off, then put them back to default.  I think my main issue with it is the appearance of the dash without it.  It looks like it has half a display.  It annoys me that VW don't make these kinds of simple, inexpensive options standard.

[Teutonic_Tamer]

Yeah, I can set the speed limit warning with my midline.  I wonder how high you can set it - I must try setting it at 200kph for the craic.

But with the midline, you only get one speed warning, whereas with the highline, you get two (doncha, or am I thinking Audi again) - one is a set once and forget, and the other is a temporary journey specific setting (ie, when you remove the ignition key, the temporary set one is lost, but the permanent one still remains).

Thanks a mil for the list T_T.  Don't think there's really anything there I feel like changing.  If I had the highline I'd probably mess with the settings until the novelty wore off, then put them back to default.  I think my main issue with it is the appearance of the dash without it.  It looks like it has half a display.  It annoys me that VW don't make these kinds of simple, inexpensive options standard.

There are actually some quite useful functions with the highline.  One such example is the footwell lights.  When we first got ours, I thought they were quite pants, cause I couldn't really see anything when it was dark (and I eat loads of carrots!  ) - but when I fiddled with the settings, found that they were factory set to something like 70% brightness.  A quick tweak, and my nocturnal footwell vision is again restored!

But I do agree.  You would have thought that being as the GTI (when it was launched) was the 'top of the line' Golf, they would have at least finished it off with the £45 highline option.  But that is Volkswagen UK for you (it is they who decide on the final spec for UK market cars). 

[jphealy]

VW Ireland too, I guess.  Although they skimp on a lot more things besides!

[AlanD]

lol true, like not all GTIs have climate control !