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Recently moved from 2018 Golf GTE Advance (their top spec trim for the GTE) to a 2019 Occy vRS 245 DSG. Very happy with it.
Its lighter than the GTE but feels heavier and more.. Grounded, in a good way.

Got a couple of things I'm going to miss from the GTE, namely fuel economy but we aren't comparing apples to apples here with these two. Virtual Cockpit, although I had it set on large Rev counter and Speedo 99% of the time so using similar setup but obviously they are real dials now so no great loss.

The vRS is a lot better is many more ways so I've no regrets. Don't have to worry about charging at work and paying £3 a day for that and paying for the Premium petrol at tesco's..
Done a few tweaks now, Scandinavian DRL for the rears, stripey leds on with DRL at the front, blower level being shown on auto, turned the hideous sound acktor thing off.. That was hideous, made me feel like I was in a 1990s Scooby and not in a good way...
Changed interior lights with drive modes so normal is blue, Eco is green and Sport is red.
Paired phone to it, setup so when the phone connects by Bluetooth, the phone fires up a a wifi hotspot which the radio connects to. Totally useless as I use Android Auto via a USB dongle to give it to me via wireless.
Also loaded up logo's for the radio stations. No idea why I've got to do this, absolutely inexcusable.

Had to chuckle, previous owner pinched the Skoda umbrella.... But left in the spare wheel, a very large Swiss army knife.. Googled it an its the top spec one and worth about £80 so I can find it in my heart to forgive them... 😂
Think thats about all for now. For some reason there isn't a huge amount of info on the 2019 Mk3.5 on youtube, I suspect maybe something to do with the timing and COVID...

Don't think I'll get this remapped, I've had several remapped cars before and whilst great fun and I know engine and gearbox can easily handle a stage 1 remap, there is that constant niggle in the back of the mind that something will go wrong due to the map and ultimately, I only really used it and got the benefit from it when pulling away from the lights.. That extra 150kg of battery over the rear axle did not help the handling on the twisties! Also, my insurance has gone up by £250 so don't want it going up even more due to remap.
Any thoughts, opinions, idea's greatly received and appreciated.

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