My clearing of the faults has yielded zero bongs this week... Might be worth a go for anyone else...
Nobody thought this worth a comment.... still no bongs for me.... still on 1899....
Same as BillSan I was holding my breath waiting for you to say “they’re baaaaack”
I’m still on 1896 and mine are still unfathomably erratic.
I had a notification to say new software update available but no sign of 1899 OTA update yet.
Fingers crossed for you Fred, if you’re still bong free at the weekend I’ll ask VW to clear my faults when it goes in next week.
… the 128Ti interior is superb, but that cossetted cabin feeling and smoothness of drive and acceleration is proving maybe to be too nice, miss the DSG box dropping gears and little bit of rawness (hot hatch ness) in the drive overall, so how car drives does have equal importance, If could put the 128Ti interior in my GTI TCR would have the perfect car 
Everyone except me seems to prefer DSG to the Aisin(?) box in the 1’er.
I actually preferred the BMW box, the shift up points seemed more natural complementing the torquier engine power delivery and kickdown was quite brutal in it especially in Sport mode. The VW system seems a lot more digital.
think some of this is down to what was used to, as its maybe the BMW and yes the Aisin box is too good, as its so linear and smooth, you hit the self imposed limiter way before expect with no real feeling of the climb to, and the DSG was pretty good at that also, but the down shifting is as equally as good, and think quite liked the felt down changes on the DSG and the change in revs as braked,
There is no DCC on the 128Ti and was expecting it to be a firm ride, but its also super smooth, which when coupled with the smooth engine and smooth gear changes, its just a far more refined overall experience than was expecting on straight getaways and the drive
However, its pretty lively in the hand, turns well into bend and corners, though you have to be wary of the torque steer, which is readily tamable and does add to the engagement when really driving the car.
Do know this is the bong thread, so will stop the digress, but as will likely be changing again in 12 months, do not want to completely exclude a MK8 so am watching the progress of these bongs being ironed out closely and the removal of faults does sound promising but obviously does need more cases to see if its just a one person workaround or an actual fix once update applied.
Work for large IT company and am closely involved in platform developments and story creation, and unless regression testing is of the highest quality, there is always chance that the latest update, breaks the stability of something else that was never a problem, and its just ongoing whack a mole. lets hope that VW Dev have learnt a lot and are now on the other side of the problem now, though the hardware related aspect concerns me as even mature and robust updates applied to earlier cars will still not solve the bongs you feel, going to make these cars, used car avoids,
