Just Taken Delivery - No Start-Stop/Keyless Entry

[pixelcellar]

Hi all

I've finally taken delivery of my 7.5 PP and found that it had no start/stop or keyless entry on it which I thought was odd as it comes as bog standard. My car was built last week of November 2019 and apparently according to the dealers VW removed this facility a few weeks before for an undisclosed reason.

Question is, A) Is this a fob off, B) Should I be bothered (everything else is present AFAIK) and C) Anyone hear anything about this at all?

Thoughts appreciated...

[Adam T7]

Mine was built in September 2018 so it sneaked in pre the 2019 MY spec

Stop / Start I have - but turn it off - I hate it and it feels counterintuitive to warm up / warm down a turbo engine
Keyless - I don’t have and wouldn’t want anyway after having it on a previous car.

I wouldn’t worry.

I assume you have the rear view camera - which I ordered as an extra - again, had that on a previous car and would have missed it.

[fredgroves]

There hasn't been keyless on 3 doors for a long old time.

I don't think we ever figured out why.

[SRGTD]

@pixelcellar - if your car is as per your signature details; a three door car, then keyless entry wasn’t available on the three door in the later production years of the Golf.

As for stop start - I thought this was standard fitment on all UK spec VW cars and has been for a good few years. It will have helped VW achieve their emissions and mpg targets for the GTI so why would they remove it? A 2019 Golf GTI performance model should definitely have it, so assuming your car is UK spec, you should have it. Do you have the button down by the gear lever / DSG shifter to be able to manually switch stop start on and off?

Edit; stop start was standard on the base model Golf S in the May 2020 price list (the last mk7.5 price list?) - it’s listed under ‘efficiency’ at the bottom right section of page 9 - so this feature wasn’t removed from late 2019. Link to price list below;

https://www.volkswagen.co.uk/files/live/sites/vwuk/files/pdf/Brochures/golf-p11d.pdf

[mcmaddy]

I'm guessing it's the start push button that's missing as all UK cars have start/stop functionality.

[pixelcellar]

Sorry guys, my wording was a bit poor, I have the auto start/stop when you stop driving, but no start/stop button for when you get in and want to fire it up.

Sounds like it's not a thing for 3dr's which I wasn't aware of :-(

[fredgroves]

the start button is part of the keyless pack and its not on 3 doors for some time...

[pixelcellar]

Thanks all, had no idea the button wasn't on 3dr, was never told nor did I ask as I'd seen plenty of interior pics with said button. Hey ho, no major issue, least I don't have to worry about stashing my keys in a faraday box thing :-)

[fredgroves]

Found it.... end of October 2015 it stopped on 3 door:

http://www.golfgtiforum.co.uk/index.php?topic=276063.msg2523435#msg2523435

(Evo1986 is a VW main dealer and provides those sort of updates on here)

[Goat_on_a_bike]

I read all 4 pages of that thread and I still don’t know why VW removed keyless and push button ignition from the 3 door