Right folks, here we go first impressions of new car.
Driving.Fantastic car to drive, road holding excellent, feedback excellent.
N.B. Car was supplied with Bridgestone tyres.
DSG Gearbox.I love it, but haven’t put it through its full potential as still running in; yes we are following TT’s recommendation.
RCD510 with dynaudio.Excellent sound system. Ramped it up really loud, very little distortion.
NB. Came with Media In and Ipod cable. This confused me, as on the VW configurator, if you selected the RCD510, the media in was removed. I plugged in my MP3 player via the usb socket and it connected seamlessly, with all albums and tracks displayed. SD card was the same.
Toys.Love the rear view camera and parking sensors. Puddle lights: cool. Coming home lights, leaving home lights, also cool.
Sound Generator/Exhaust NoteI love the sound, Wife thinks it sometimes sounds like a diesel, wait to she hears it when I floor it. (After running in period of course.)
Paintwork.Love the colour and IMO looks really good, but did notice on closer inspection, that it does have an “Orange peel effect†Obviously that’s the way they spray the cars these days, we inspected a metallic coloured car in the showroom and that looked the same.
Has any one else noticed this?
Shopping.Parks easily at Tesco’s and boot space allows you to get at least a weeks worth of shopping in.
Negative points.MFD display not very user friendly. IMO
My Wife finds the driving seat a bit uncomfortable as the side bolsters dig in to her hips. Probably done to the seats being new and hopefully over time they should loosen up a bit.
Auto windscreen wipers, still getting used to, more manual intervention needed than I first thought.
Weather.Been pis*ing it down for days. Haven’t had a chance to wash and wax, and fully check the paint work.
Pictures to follow.
