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There must be a fault, either in the fob or in the car. Have you tried using the spare key for a while to see if it still happens? That will at least eliminate or incriminate the fob.

I have a 2016 SE Business. I haven't tried to navigate to where Mr McCartney eulogised about the p*ss rolling in from the sea, but it (the SatNav) is pretty carp [sic]. If, due to long jams around the North/clockwise route (which the SatNav is aware of), I decide to go South round the M25 to get fro...

According to the brochure on VW's website the GT does have "reverse activated kerb-view adjustment on the passenger’s side". It's on my SE Business, but you do have to turn the knob on the driver's door to the right setting.

I've walked 20 yards or so away without thinking about the key. It kept running but was showing a sulky message about the key when I got back to it, I guess it would have stopped the engine eventually.

I don't know whether it can be enabled post-factory (but it wouldn't be surprising). I don't find it particularly useful. You get a limited selection of Apple apps. I use it to view traffic on Apple Maps occasionally, whilst wishing I could get Google Maps instead. It will read text messages to you,...

The Satnav is poor. Apart from it being infuriatingly fiddly to enter a postcode (surely the way you most often want to specify a destination) the ETA is hopeless on anything other than motorways and fast A roads. It seems to think that you can average the speed limit on any road, even an unrestrict...

Interesting, someone else suggested it might be emissions related. But apart from the clatter there is a lot of transmitted noise at low revs and a real boom through the bodyshell at around 2000rpm which is very wearing on motorway journeys. Maybe it's a product of the lighter MQB platform, but I'm ...

Well I hope so! Just done 400 miles and the engine drone gets tiring, there was none of it in my B7. I'm dismayed that the B8 is so much worse in this respect - if I'd known I would have had something else, usually new models are more refined than the one they replace. Apart from that it is very nic...

The replacement for my end-of-lease 2013 B7 2.0 BMT. First impressions (apart from the interior colour being wrong!) after a 3 mile round trip to fill up: Engine is extremely noisy/diesel clattery compared to the old model - a massive step back. Maybe they skimp on the sound proofing in the Business...

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Does a 2013 2.0 TDi have a dual mass flywheel? Mine occasionally exhibits clutch judder when you first pull away from a cold start. It started at around 25,000 miles so it can't be regular wear - I've had several cars which have done 130,000-175,000 miles on their original clutches.

It works The card needs to be formatted as FAT32, it came formatted as exFAT which doesn't work. Had to download a utility to format it as FAT32 as both Windows XP and Windows 7 won't do it (Windows 7 spends nearly 2 hours counting up to 100% and then says it's too big).

Sorry to resurrect an old thread. You say a flattish file structure. Can you have artist and then each album by that artist as a single sub- folder within the artist folder or is it better to have each album as a single folder in the root directory. Hope I have explained what I mean clearly. Folder...

... but no amount of explaining it in very simple terms to my wife will convince her that, that is how to start the car (especially when it is cold). Groan. I have all this to look forward to when my Passat arrives at the end of July then. I've given up trying to get 'er indoors to take in the fact...

Or worse still a fake USB drive which appears to have far more capacity than it really has (unlikely if you bought it from a reputable supplier). I got caught out on EBay (but did get a refund from the seller who feigned innocence): http://www.ebay.co.uk/gds/How-to-detect-FAKE-USB-DRIVES/10000000008...

I can't see them fitting it to the current model, but you can be sure it will be in the all-new MQB-based replacement due in 2014.

The cost to my employer is much the same, the cost to me is considerably greater (BiK). I have to draw a line somewhere

I'm at the limit of my contract hire budget (for more or less the same payment I could have had a Passat CC GT - they've got some special deal on those at the mo' - but it's another 5k on the P11d which I just can't justify, a painful decision to make! To answer my own question, the dash top and doo...

Does anyone have the or has anyone seen the "Desert Beige" upholstery? Just how brown is it? On the configurator is looks as though the dash top is dark brown (yuk) - is it really? I'm not a fan of all black interiors (superheated cave) but brown/beige isn't top of my list either (would pr...

What you want is the option - just flip the back down if it suits, or flip the base up & the back down if you want a flat area. But then, I do want everything.

yeah they fold down, but I would never say flat, but it is very near flat. I have a saloon B7X( OK thanks, so the seat base doesn't flip forward allowing the seat back to go flat? This seems to be common cheapskating across a number of manufacturers now. In my soon-to-be-departed Mazda 6 you pull a...

Can anyone tell me if the rear seats on the B7 fold forward so that the seat back is pretty much horizontal? Do both the saloon and the estate have the same rear seat folding capability? I can't find any mention of this in the brochure. I was passing my local dealer last night not long before they c...