Sportline ordered!

[aldouk]

Well we took a trip to the local dealer this afternoon.

 

I test drove two, both being the 150 diesel.

 

Sportline Manual and a SE Executive with DSG or might of been a SE but it had full leather and  a few options ticked.

 

Impressed with both variant. The engine is pretty punch and pulls well through the gears. The DSG also good, I put it in Sport mode, not sure f that made a difference.

 

I've gone for

 

Sportline

Estate

Laser White

Power tailgate

Traffic sign recognition

 

Ordered traffic sign so could get the camera and hopefully enable high beam assist.

 

Not sure if any other options worth adding as it's pretty well specced on the Sportline, maybe blind spot indicator.

 

Anyone living with the DSG, is it worth the extra as the Manual drove nice too.

 

Cheers

[BlueDiesel]

Looking forward to seeing the pictures mate!

[aldouk]

Aye will do. 

 

I hope Laser white is an ok colour.  I had Moon white on my Octy. 

 

I fancied DSG this time around so was either that or a metallic colour. 

[penguin17]

Are front sensors now standard?  If not then I'd recommend them.  The Superb is a big car!  Also how about the temp spare wheel?  It works out cheaper to spec it on the options list now rather than trying to buy the wheel and tool kit seperately from a dealer or TPS. 

 

I too went for TSR to get the A5 camera and can confirm HBA assist is easily enabled via VCDS; lane assist too but that's a feature I don't like nor use.

[aldouk]

No front sensors not standard so would need to see if they could be added. But the Octy didn’t have them either allbeit smaller car. 

 

Lame assist ill also enable and see how it goes. Didn’t bother me on the Octy. 

 

Can you recommend any other bits to activate? 

[roo]

Front sensors are an option on the sportline as I've ordered them on mine, as is parking assist which gives you 4 side sensors as well.

 

A lot of the things you can enable with vcds are nice gimmicks, like the needle sweep.  The ones worth adding it's seems are lane assist (which will give you traffic jam assist as well), high beam assist and, depending on how you will drive it, the audi throttle mod and changing the xds diff setting. There are probably one or two more useful ones but i dont know them.

[penguin17]

21 hours ago, aldouk said:

No front sensors not standard so would need to see if they could be added. But the Octy didn’t have them either allbeit smaller car. 

 

Lame assist ill also enable and see how it goes. Didn’t bother me on the Octy. 

 

Can you recommend any other bits to activate? 

I have enabled the following with OBDEleven and VCDS: 

 

High Beam Assist

Display fan speed on Auto

Audi throttle response (makes no difference to accelerator pedal lag)

Diff turning to strong

Store heated seat setting 

Cornering fog speed/on-off threshold

 

I also played around with the startup logo on the MFD but there's nothing for the Sportline (a fairly nice vRS logo though) 

 

 

Edited 19 October, 2017 by penguin17

[aldouk]

So the Audi throttle change makes no difference? I read on other threads it was brilliant.

 

Sounds similar adaptions to that of the Octy then

[penguin17]

15 hours ago, aldouk said:

So the Audi throttle change makes no difference? I read on other threads it was brilliant.

 

Sounds similar adaptions to that of the Octy then

No change whatsoever, not for the manual anyway.  The diff change on the other hand is very noticeable IME. 

[aldouk]

Ahh I thought you had a Auto. I’ll try that when I get mine. Will also,look in to the diff turning 

[aldouk]

Well originally scheduled in for build week 3, now it’s showing as build week 50. 

[sherlocks VRS]

On 19/10/2017 at 09:37, penguin17 said:

No change whatsoever, not for the manual anyway.  The diff change on the other hand is very noticeable IME. 

Daft question but what does the diff turning do? and how do you alter it as i have vagcom

[penguin17]

13 hours ago, sherlocks VRS said:

Daft question but what does the diff turning do? and how do you alter it as i have vagcom

http://www.volkswagen.co.uk/technology/braking-and-stability-systems/xds

 

I'm not 100% sure on the steps with VAGCOM as I had it done for me in my previous car and I used OBDEleven on mine this time.  Hopefully this should help: 

 

http://forums.ross-tech.com/showthread.php?796-MkVII-Golf-XDS-Adaptation

 

[aldouk]

Looks like build week has been bought forward again from week 50 to next week potentially. 

Edited 27 November, 2017 by aldouk

[aldouk]

Well,the car was built but sitting in Germany at the docks. 

 

So so unlikely to get it anytime before Christmas so hoping  first week in 2018. 

 

Also so why does it go through Germany docks?

[RickTT]

1 hour ago, aldouk said:

Well,the car was built but sitting in Germany at the docks. 

 

So so unlikely to get it anytime before Christmas so hoping  first week in 2018. 

 

Also so why does it go through Germany docks?

 

Nice one  :-)  missed your original post saying you had order..

[penguin17]

12 hours ago, aldouk said:

Well,the car was built but sitting in Germany at the docks. 

 

So so unlikely to get it anytime before Christmas so hoping  first week in 2018. 

 

Also so why does it go through Germany docks?

I think the majority, if not all VAG cars go through Emden docks.  Possibly down to infrastructure and logistics, they have trains running from the factories to the docks is my understanding. 

[Blowhard]

Surely the German coast is the closest to Czech Republic for cars coming to Britain 

[aldouk]

23 hours ago, RickTT said:

 

Nice one  :-)  missed your original post saying you had order..

 

No worries, I was chatting to myself a bit on this thread lol. 

 

Looki g forward to getting this, not been in BMW for a few years now, not really missing it but I did miss my Octy when it went. 

[aldouk]

11 hours ago, Blowhard said:

Surely the German coast is the closest to Czech Republic for cars coming to Britain 

 

Probsbly, I’m not too good with geography lol. 

 

Emden docks? I’ll have to google it

[RoadCycleNut]

Mine came through Emden

[aldouk]

It has been picked up on Friday, however I’ve only done 40 miles in it!

 

Her in doors has been ill and one of the kids have chicken pox. 

 

Loving it it so far, liking

 

Build quality

The app, flashing lights and beeping!

DSG is lovely (and lazy!)

Interior is fab with lighting etc.