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Offline Jim_mk7.5

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Re: Active Info Display
« Reply #40 on: 12 June 2017, 19:15 »
If you are considering as option. Make your own minds up, I think way more readable information analogue.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yJRL7-FX9Uw&app=desktop

Don't understand, are you saying you prefer analogue dials or the active info?
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Re: Active Info Display
« Reply #41 on: 12 June 2017, 19:30 »
If you are considering as option. Make your own minds up, I think way more readable information analogue.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yJRL7-FX9Uw&app=desktop

Don't understand, are you saying you prefer analogue dials or the active info?

Sorry Jim, 'Than' analogue.
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Re: Active Info Display
« Reply #42 on: 12 June 2017, 20:56 »
If you are considering as option. Make your own minds up, I think way more readable information analogue.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yJRL7-FX9Uw&app=desktop

Don't understand, are you saying you prefer analogue dials or the active info?

Sorry Jim, 'Than' analogue.

Ah, just checking! I think the new display looks great from what I've seen will know for myself at the end of month. The people who seem to complaining about it are the Mk7 owners who don't have it....

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Re: Active Info Display
« Reply #43 on: 12 June 2017, 21:30 »
I think the new display looks great from what I've seen will know for myself at the end of month. The people who seem to complaining about it are the Mk7 owners who don't have it....
:huh:

Have you seen one in the flesh?

I have ordered a facelift GTI. The Active Info Display was not an option I wanted. When I first saw the display on a GTD demonstrator I was not impressed. It didn't look as sharp and clear as I hoped.

My car will arrive in 2 months. I'm sure it will grow on me.

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Re: Active Info Display
« Reply #44 on: 12 June 2017, 21:39 »
I think the new display looks great from what I've seen will know for myself at the end of month. The people who seem to complaining about it are the Mk7 owners who don't have it....
:huh:

Have you seen one in the flesh?

I have ordered a facelift GTI. The Active Info Display was not an option I wanted. When I first saw the display on a GTD demonstrator I was not impressed. It didn't look as sharp and clear as I hoped.

My car will arrive in 2 months. I'm sure it will grow on me.

Only the static demo so will report when mine arrives this month. Just seems to be lots of criticism towards it on here but not the people who are actually driving them? I might be wrong though.
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Re: Active Info Display
« Reply #45 on: 12 June 2017, 21:41 »
If you are considering as option. Make your own minds up, I think way more readable information analogue.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yJRL7-FX9Uw&app=desktop

Don't understand, are you saying you prefer analogue dials or the active info?

Sorry Jim, 'Than' analogue.

Ah, just checking! I think the new display looks great from what I've seen will know for myself at the end of month. The people who seem to complaining about it are the Mk7 owners who don't have it....



Or maybe some of us Mk7 owners (and facelift owners) actually do prefer the analogue dials.  :smiley:
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Re: Active Info Display
« Reply #46 on: 12 June 2017, 21:52 »
If you are considering as option. Make your own minds up, I think way more readable information analogue.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yJRL7-FX9Uw&app=desktop

Don't understand, are you saying you prefer analogue dials or the active info?

Sorry Jim, 'Than' analogue.

Ah, just checking! I think the new display looks great from what I've seen will know for myself at the end of month. The people who seem to complaining about it are the Mk7 owners who don't have it....

Yes you're right, the fact that I think the lower models get a clearer active info display (and the fact I'm far from blown away with the analogue mk7 dials aside from the nicer ones in the R) makes my opinion irrelevant as I own an out of date model picked up in the end of season sales. Heaven forbid I might be a potential VW customer again at some point not necessarily in the far flung future.  :kiss:
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Re: Active Info Display
« Reply #47 on: 12 June 2017, 21:59 »
Or maybe some of us Mk7 owners (and facelift owners) actually do prefer the analogue dials.  :smiley:
... I would still prefer analogue dials and I like my tech. Though I don't think it is worth deleting the Active Info Display.

The one thing I did like about it was having the small satnav screen right in front of me.

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Re: Active Info Display
« Reply #48 on: 12 June 2017, 22:05 »
I have been looking at an AID for just over 2k miles now and I quite like it. The biggest selling point for me is how I can put sat-nav on the AID and use Spotify on the other screen at the same time. For that reason alone I think it is brilliant.

Ignoring that reason, I could take it or leave it. I like it because it is new and different but without sat-nav between the dials you don't actually get any more information than the previous Mk7 and if it didn't have that capability then I would not have paid extra for one; if it was an additional option.

If you take a look at Audi's Virtual Cockpit and then look back at the AID, the AID looks quite underwhelming and small. However, IMO, this is a step in the right direction and future generations should be a lot better and bring better functionality and customisation. If you de-specced the AID from a facelifted Golf for whatever reason I honestly don't think you would have an issue shifting it come new car time.

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Re: Active Info Display
« Reply #49 on: 12 June 2017, 22:16 »
Heaven forbid I might be a potential VW customer again at some point not necessarily in the far flung future.  :kiss:

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