Gti Reviews

[Brocky_]

What is that guy smoking? 

Smacks a bottle of drink that is already too small for cup-holder - "That's not going to hold a drink with no lid on it". 

Yanks the rear seat pocket down - "When you pull the seat, the material sags". 

Lifts up PHONE charging compartment, has loads of crap in it - "This is tiny and looks like a shark fin mouth (??)". 

After saying he has driven the car TWICE! - "Everyone hates this car, you get some dodgy looks in it". - Funny that, I have had nothing but compliments in the 6 weeks I have driven mine. 

In the time he spent trying to put together a comprehensible sentence to complain about the fact that he couldn't find the Traction Control and how he couldn't launch the car, he literally could've picked up the manual and looked it up....but that's the car's fault. 

Drives the car in a 30mph area with speed bumps and decides it's crap and he doesn't want to drive it any more because it's boring.

The guy has likely done this to get views based on the shock value.  Oh and he has a Polo GTI that "SHOOTS CRAZY FLAMES!!" and has a purple starlight roof lining.  Enough said, to be honest...

[king monkey]

A good summary there. It was the best review I’ve seen in ages, if you know what I mean. Comical. He comes to it with an agenda and leaves with zero credibility. The majority of their comments are just useless waffle. I presume they’ve borrowed the car. Imagine letting someone else drive your car then you find out they’ve slated it as much as they have. Wow.

[SRGTD]

Hardly an objective review; he’d already made his mind up on the outcome before he got anywhere near the car. IMHO he’s being controversial just so people view his video which seems to be working; he’s had 3,800-plus views so far in one day.

[Sniffer]

A good summary there. It was the best review I’ve seen in ages, if you know what I mean. Comical. He comes to it with an agenda and leaves with zero credibility. The majority of their comments are just useless waffle. I presume they’ve borrowed the car. Imagine letting someone else drive your car then you find out they’ve slated it as much as they have. Wow.

He mentioned in his video that it was a "Thrifty car", so I assume that it was on hire. 

I wonder how many speeding points he will get when he takes it back because his driving through built up areas was totally irresponsible. As someone mentioned earlier, he might have had a better chance of understanding how the controls in the car worked, if he had bothered reading the manual.

[Exonian]

he literally could've picked up the manual and looked it up....but that's the car's fault. 

To be fair to him nobody reads the manual, that’s what we have fredgroves for 
 

I’m not going to waste 30 minutes of my life watching that but it sounds like he will enjoy drifting an R through the housing estate far more than actually driving a humble GTI.
In fact he will probably do GTI sales a power of good from those that completely disassociate with him (and might actually be able to afford one).

[fredgroves]

To be fair to him nobody reads the manual, that’s what we have fredgroves for 
 

To be fair, trying to digest the bloody book cover to cover is pointless. Trying to answer specific questions, its a bit more useful, but nothing like as useful as searching the online version for keywords, because its all over the bloody place.

I feel like I still understand barely any of the car, despite really trying.

If you weren't a try'er you'd be totally lost.

[Brocky_]

he literally could've picked up the manual and looked it up....but that's the car's fault. 

To be fair to him nobody reads the manual, that’s what we have fredgroves for 
 

I’m not going to waste 30 minutes of my life watching that but it sounds like he will enjoy drifting an R through the housing estate far more than actually driving a humble GTI.
In fact he will probably do GTI sales a power of good from those that completely disassociate with him (and might actually be able to afford one).

Oh, I don't disagree, Exonian.

I didn't read the manual to discover 'The Brocky Method' of turning off Lane Assist.  I too, don't know how to launch the car and haven't picked up the manual to find out.  Why?  Well, firstly, I am a man.     Secondly, because I have no desire to launch the car using anything other than my right foot....just as I don't feel the need to proclaim that the car is the worst GTI ever made on YouTube and base it on my unwillingness to do 30 seconds of reading or on the car's inability to secure a lidless drink by smacking it around with the back of my hand.

I am enjoying mine in 'spirited fashion' just as much as the next person but I wish to continue enjoying it and not have to see it in the garage every few months for tyres and parts.  I also have no desire to have to pick my car out of a ditch (been there, done that) or, if this guy's driving is anything to go by, someone's garden, a schoolyard or a shop-front. 

When online, I always try to live by an ethos of 'Attack the post and not the poster'.  This guy genuinely makes that really quite difficult.

[fredgroves]

Here's one I have been trying to replicate.... somehow I managed to get the climate screen up on the mib by pressing SOMETHING on the steering wheel.

Interesting.... but how on earth did i do it?

[GTD1414]

Here's one I have been trying to replicate.... somehow I managed to get the climate screen up on the mib by pressing SOMETHING on the steering wheel.

Interesting.... but how on earth did i do it?

Heated steering wheel button? I've actually been doing this method as soon as I get in as a different way to 'sync' the climate.
(quickly after the Brocky lane assist method)
Dont know why but find the mode and clima buttons hard to press whilst on the move.

[urtoinpo]

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To be fair, trying to digest the bloody book cover to cover is pointless. Trying to answer specific questions, its a bit more useful, but nothing like as useful as searching the online version for keywords, because its all over the bloody place.

I feel like I still understand barely any of the car, despite really trying.

If you weren't a try'er you'd be totally lost.
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I've tried reading large chunks of both the car's and the infotainment handbook but never got very far.
I'm one who likes reading a new car's handbook, but have been frustrated with every VAG one I've tried - my Dad's 2018 SEAT Leon one is just as poor.
As stated, VW handbooks are all over the place and have always been that way AFAIK