Avon calling!

[oryxgolfr]

My new R is still silent one month in 

I think it's 2020/2021 and early 2022 cars only.  You are lucky.

[Salamanca]

I had the steering wheel replaced and everything seemed fine for a few months but now getting SOS, Emergency Assist & Traffic Assist bongs.
Sometimes nothing for days then yesterday, a journey from Hell with the 3 bongs in succession, literally every 20 seconds or so-seriously did my head in.

Today, not a single error in over 100 miles and I even tried to replicate it in a car park, doing full lock both ways but nothing happened.

It's mind boggling that some Mk8s will be due an MOT before this long term issue is solved-shame on VW.

[Exonian]

https://youtu.be/rLo11A8rbb4

6 minutes in *bing bong* 

[Snoopy]

Can't even make the press fleet work   

[Carlosfandango]

It’s been 2-3 months and around 2000 miles since the dealership updated me to 1899sw, I’ve not had any bongs etc since then! My car is a 2022MY, and to be fair it’s been very little trouble regardless of sw version anyway luckily, I’ve not had any more minor niggles than I did in my 2020 M135i xDrive. 🤷🏼

[JoeGTI]

I've noticed in some dealership photos of new cars that you can configure the dash to look like this, i.e. the Nav/maps view with round speedo/rev counter either side. Looks quite nice and it isn't possible in my car as far as I know.

Can anyone on latest software (1899?) confirm whether they can get their clocks to look like this?

[fredgroves]

Can anyone on latest software (1899?) confirm whether they can get their clocks to look like this?

Its not software, its the display unit itself.... the newest Golfs can do it, not the older ones.

No idea why, it is just graphics in code.... but hey, VW.

[Dav3smith]

Mine's in for its first service tomorrow, I'm just back from a 700 mile round trip to Cornwall and not one bong, I've told them to not update the software under any circumstances. I've been pretty much bong free since day one and done 7K miles now so I don't want to "upgrade" to the latest bongware.

I haven't had any of the OTA updates for months either which is a relief. To be honest I think I would be fine to update but it's just not worth it in my case.

[Mk8Clubby]

Well that's my car added to the Travel Assist & Emergency Assist unavailable fault. Non stop bongs tonight on a journey which included two approx 30min stops which didn't clear/reset it. If that had been a long journey over hours it would be unbearable. Apparently a new steering wheel is not the fix for this (per the golf mk8 forum). My car is 2years old and on 1899 and has never done this. Really disappointing. In for service in a few weeks so if anyone manages to get this resolved please let us know.

[fredgroves]

Mine's in for its first service tomorrow, I'm just back from a 700 mile round trip to Cornwall and not one bong, I've told them to not update the software under any circumstances. I've been pretty much bong free since day one and done 7K miles now so I don't want to "upgrade" to the latest bongware.

I haven't had any of the OTA updates for months either which is a relief. To be honest I think I would be fine to update but it's just not worth it in my case.

Unless you had been manually updated by the dealer to a newish version you won't get OTA updates. I think only 1896 onwards does OTA.