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Offline ub7rm

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Re: Golf R in the flesh
« Reply #90 on: 02 March 2021, 12:25 »
Agreed, stupid touchscreen nonsense aside it looks like a belter. 
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Re: Golf R in the flesh
« Reply #91 on: 02 March 2021, 13:38 »
Predictably the new ‘best car in the world ever’

It’s good to see the performance was similar to the excitable posh lad comparison vid, which begs the question of how close the stats are to the 100 bhp or so more powerful Merc A45S.
A stage 1 8R is going to be incredibly quick and capable  :cool:

Fair points about the interior materials too.
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Re: Golf R in the flesh
« Reply #92 on: 02 March 2021, 13:48 »
Its going to be mechanically an awesome car, it really is.

Styling, well, who cares really. Its not about the styling really and its hardly a Geely special.

VW interface.... well my first 24 hours have been a little bit frustrating and I'm not done yet with figuring out quite what the hell is going on with half of it.

However if you just want to get in a drive, it won't bother you one bit. Just ignore the gubbins!
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Re: Golf R in the flesh
« Reply #93 on: 02 March 2021, 14:09 »
Well if you can’t figure out some of it fredgroves then there’s no hope for some of us!
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Re: Golf R in the flesh
« Reply #94 on: 02 March 2021, 14:19 »
I've just been out to it to try and make the thing work....again.... thought I'd fixed it....again.... log back into we-connect and no...

Its not so much "we connect" as "we don't really connect do we"
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Re: Golf R in the flesh
« Reply #95 on: 02 March 2021, 16:16 »
I gave up on we disconnect.

I’m now ‘guest’.
I’m good with that.
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Re: Golf R in the flesh
« Reply #96 on: 02 March 2021, 16:43 »
After an afternoon on the phone to VW support its beginning to try my patience.... :angry:
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Re: Golf R in the flesh
« Reply #97 on: 02 March 2021, 16:51 »
Quote from: fredgroves on 02 March 2021, 16:43
After an afternoon on the phone to VW support its beginning to try my patience.... :angry:

What is actually happening (or not happening) with it, Fred?
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Re: Golf R in the flesh
« Reply #98 on: 02 March 2021, 17:32 »
Quote from: ar899 on 02 March 2021, 16:51
Quote from: fredgroves on 02 March 2021, 16:43
After an afternoon on the phone to VW support its beginning to try my patience.... :angry:

What is actually happening (or not happening) with it, Fred?

Having a hell of a time getting my profile to be active and the damned thing to talk to VW over the esim.

Think its actually patchy mobile signal from the car actually - just been for a drive (any excuse) and when I moved a few miles down the road it seemed to be playing ball finally, I could use both keys to activate my account and finally I think its working.

Will validate again later.

Massive pain in the backside.

But like Exonian says, you could always just give up and drive around as guest and not worry about the POS.

I am a persistent bugger though and not happy if something doesn't work!

BTW that was a trip without any surprise error bongs!
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Re: Golf R in the flesh
« Reply #99 on: 02 March 2021, 17:43 »
Quote from: Exonian on 02 March 2021, 16:16
I gave up on we disconnect.

I’m now ‘guest’.
I’m good with that.

LOL, the admin and setup is a real pain in the ar£e. Not sure mine is done properly via the We Connect portal, We Connect Go or whatever.  Still can’t get keyless to work, will try again when I can be bothered.
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