I. I was frustrated when I pressed the 'home' button and only part of the radio logo showed, so I could not see the full title of the current record. Yestwerday I discovered a small tab on the left middle side of the logo. I pressed that and the full logo appeared.

2. I was surprised that there was apparently no key to manually unlock the car. Today I found it by pressing the button (which opens to take a key ring) once more, it popped open and the spare key is inside. I also found where the keyhole is located.

3. Sweeping the hand over the screen of the infotainment centre changes the display.

4. The car is 'moon white'. When washing it yesterday, the bright sulight showed up sparkly bits in the paint, so it looks like it is a metallic paint. Odd for white, but it does look very white!

5. Ambient lighting only comes on with side or headlights. I couldn't see it, other than the ability to change the colour behind the virtual instruments, so now I know.

6. If the car is in park with the ignition on and the door is opened, a warning beep sounds then after a couple of minutes the ignition switches off.

7. I thought that the simulated noise to warn pedestrians was a squeak I could hear with the window dropped. The other day I asked my wife to drive past and in fact the squeak was the motor and there was also a low-frequency noise, which I could clearly hear.

8. The high voltage system has its own cooling circuit and a coolant expansion tank.

 

I knew where the brolly was located, but a couple of days ago in torrential rain, it was easy to get it out of the trailing edge of the door and keep dry when getting out. A thoughtful design feature.

 

Are there any other useful features I may have missed?

 

Edited 14 July, 20214 yr by Jim2015

When parking, just turning off the ignition puts the DSG ‘box in ‘P’ and applies the parking brake.

Discovered it by accident one day after a few weeks of laboriously following the sequence of ‘P’, parking brake, ignition off.

BTW - at the time, I was new to driving a DSG