Climate Windscreen

[Andyduz]

Hi All, car arrived today and I have specced the advanced phone kit with the mandatory climate windscreen. Does anyone know how the screen is activated as I can't see any switches etc?

[noobmonkey]

This is a guess, as i've not got my car yet, but looking through the Golf website(VW) i'd assume this button?
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[2014GTi]

Hi All, car arrived today and I have specced the advanced phone kit with the mandatory climate windscreen. Does anyone know how the screen is activated as I can't see any switches etc?

Good question..... I will need to know this too.. perhaps its in a menu somewhere or activates when you turn on the heated mirrors?
Out of interest, did you car come with the MDI iPod interface?
Can you also try out the USB socket in the armrest to see if the headunit see's any audio files on your smartphone? 

[peterdoherty]

its automatic - comes on when moisture sensor in car thinks the screen will mist up or when you hit the max front window button on the LHS round switch.

There if an onscreen option when you go into setup from aircon screen
Has worked brilliant for the past month I've had mine - MK6 would always steam up, mostly first thing in the morning, MK7 has never

[2014GTi]

Does it melt ice? 

[Andyduz]

its automatic - comes on when moisture sensor in car thinks the screen will mist up or when you hit the max front window button on the LHS round switch.

There if an onscreen option when you go into setup from aircon screen
Has worked brilliant for the past month I've had mine - MK6 would always steam up, mostly first thing in the morning, MK7 has never

Cheers Pete, further to different post, what's it like with ice?
I can see some bedtime reading of the manual tonight, the amount of hidden options are taking some getting used to. Fantastic motor though, absolutely love it.

[Andyduz]

Hi All, car arrived today and I have specced the advanced phone kit with the mandatory climate windscreen. Does anyone know how the screen is activated as I can't see any switches etc?

Good question..... I will need to know this too.. perhaps its in a menu somewhere or activates when you turn on the heated mirrors?
Out of interest, did you car come with the MDI iPod interface?
Can you also try out the USB socket in the armrest to see if the headunit see's any audio files on your smartphone? 

No, the car didn't come with the MDI interface, it was a BW 41 so just missed out. Must say though the BT Audio from an iPhone is very good. Will need to invest in a 64 gb sd card over the weekend.

[neilgcal]

its automatic - comes on when moisture sensor in car thinks the screen will mist up or when you hit the max front window button on the LHS round switch.

There if an onscreen option when you go into setup from aircon screen
Has worked brilliant for the past month I've had mine - MK6 would always steam up, mostly first thing in the morning, MK7 has never

Just got mine 2 days ago but mine had the auto function disabled so to get it to work I had to go into the main menu and enable auto climate screen. The car is off getting detailed at the mo so can tell you whether that option is in the main car menu or not.

[peterdoherty]

its automatic - comes on when moisture sensor in car thinks the screen will mist up or when you hit the max front window button on the LHS round switch.

There if an onscreen option when you go into setup from aircon screen
Has worked brilliant for the past month I've had mine - MK6 would always steam up, mostly first thing in the morning, MK7 has never

Cheers Pete, further to different post, what's it like with ice?
I can see some bedtime reading of the manual tonight, the amount of hidden options are taking some getting used to. Fantastic motor though, absolutely love it.

Its great - only have had one morning where there was a layer of ice over the screen so far - flicked the max front windows on and a few seconds later you could see the melt holes appear. Few more seconds and accidentally hit the wipers and 2 sheets of ice just slid off lol Think if I left it about a minute it would have all melted

[Andyduz]

Pete, sussed it now and set to automatic. Thanks for the heads up.