10 COOL HIDDEN FEATURES OF MK8 VW GOLF!!

Hello everyone and welcome to this vox assistant video. Now the

golf

on the market has been getting rave reviews for the way it drives since its launch in early 2020, but almost everyone hasn't liked the new buttonless UI - except for me, I don't seem to have had any problems. with the. I drove a Golf off the market for the first time in June 2020 and had that car for quite a few days and got to know the system very well. It wasn't perfect by any means, but strangely enough when I returned that card. It was kind of what I missed the most when I got into my Mark 7.5 Golf GTI TCR.

I've driven a lot of mark 8's since then and it just keeps getting better and better, that's partly due to software updates fixing bugs but also the fact that I know the system even more and have learned quite a few tips and tricks that make it Living with him is much easier. There are many well-respected reviews that don't know about these shortcuts and repeatedly insist that the

features

are very difficult to find because they are buried deep in the menus, when in reality they are just a slide away if you configure the system to suit your needs. , so today, to make sure you have a good experience with your

golf

market, I want to share it with you. 10 tips that will make living with it much easier.

Ok guys, starting with number 10. My first piece of advice is to sign up for the free VW We Connect app. Once they do this from their smartphone, they will be able to find out things like the amount of fuel. is in your car whether it is locked or unlocked, you can even operate the horn and turn signals to find it in a large parking lot. You can get driving data as if you had the trip computer on your phone. You can even get a vehicle condition report, yes. Fortunately, there are plenty of green markings there, but most importantly, there is a map option that will show you exactly where your car is.

I know you probably know where your car is, but if it's stolen you won't know and that's a particularly big risk with GTI and ours. this feature was available in 7.5 golf when it had the sos button up here, which is probably only in the last few years of production, but the problem in 7.5 is that a powered thief could delete the user, rendering the app unusable. At mark 8, there is now a PIN number that you must enter almost every time you get in the car. I think if you don't, if you get back in the car in half an hour, you don't need to enter it.

Yes, it's a bit annoying having to put in a pin every time, but at least it means I know that if my car is stolen, there's a good chance I can track it with the app. Now, a little tip is to keep an eye on this icon here the globe and the little one sitting on a pin actually the globe is white there it means that the car is connected to the Volkswagen servers the data is moving between them and that little one pointer there means that the car is giving its location so everything is fine, if you buy a new car you might find that there is a photo of a man with a hat and a glass on and that means that the car does not provide any fact.

You may also find that it is not connecting to the server. so it might take a little bit of tinkering to get it working, but yeah, it's a really

cool

feature. Well, on number nine, my next advice is to disable the keyless entry system of your Golf Market if you are not satisfied with its operation because it could be a security risk now in the Mark 7 Golf keyless entry was introduced and it became standard, whether you wanted it or not, in the last few years of production, which was particularly bad timing because break-ins exploiting the weakness of keyless entry were at their peak when that happened. and the problem with the golf 7.5 was that you couldn't disable the system satisfactorily.

The good news is that with the Mark 8 it is very easy to do. Let me show you how, you get into the vehicle and then you want central locking and there you are. you can get keyless entry, keyless axle active or not active, it's up to you whether to disable it, you just open the car with the key fob like you probably did in your old car and press the start button to start it, so it stays the same if You're very happy with keyless entry and you like how it works, and you know there are some parts of the country where that will be the case.

In fact, you can set the car to unlock when you approach, meaning you just drive past it, just walk. Get in the car and it will lock without you having to touch the handle, which I have to admit is really

cool

, okay, number eight, my next tip is to make sure you have the latest version of the software for the infotainment system. because this is crucial for it to run smoothly and efficiently, you can find out which version you have very easily, so click on settings and then system information and there is the software version. I'm on one six six six, which is not the The latest version, I believe, is a six six eight, which is much better.

Don't even think about pressing the software update version there because it doesn't work, which is doubly annoying because you need the update to fix the problems and you're trying to fix them. and it doesn't work, I don't know what VW was thinking with that, but sign up with the dealer, get a courtesy car, have them do the upgrade and you should have a car that runs pretty much like you would. Expecting a Volkswagen to run, which can't be a bad thing, okay? At number seven, let's talk about the haptic buttons on the steering wheel because just like the infotainment system, not everyone likes them, now haptic just means touch sensitive and they have a little give. from comments and some people say they don't work properly honestly I've never had a problem with them they just require a little finesse to use so let me show you how they work properly so with this digital internet group we can I have three sections , the two outer parts can be set using these buttons, so I'm going to go up now, I'm going to select the driving time distance, it's working fine, I'm going to cross over to the left side, I want to Select I know the assistance system, like this that two down and that works fine too.

You may want to cycle through the different stations on the stereo. I'll just reconfigure this to show the radio audio. There we are easy so you can see what there you might want. It goes through the different seasons, there you have it, it's changing now. The other nice thing about the haptic technology is that you can also swipe some of them, so if you just want to swipe around the station, you can do that and it's probably more helpful with the volume. so you can press it to go up and down like that, but you can also slide it, which is a pretty nice touch.

The other nice thing about this system is that some of the buttons have two stages so this is probably the most important because it sets the crew speed so if you press it lightly the cruising speed increases by a mile per hour at a time. Can you see it down there? 63 64 65. If you press it harder, it will increase to 70 75 80. so two presses listen to the two presses, it's at 70. In the old system it would work similarly, but to get a five mile per hour increase you would have to holding down the button, which took time on this, I'm awake. five instantly by just pressing it a little more firmly, okay, on number six, let's talk about the voice control feature that is standard on the Golf Mark 8.

You have to pay a lot of money for this with some manufacturers' cars and it is standard on this car and once. you get to know what you can do with it, it's really cool, you can use it by pressing that button on the steering wheel or the cool way to do it is to just say hello Volkswagen, how can I help? I'm cold, no problem. It will heat up in the front right shortly and it knows I'm in the driver's seat because if you do it from that seat it says it will heat up in the front left.

Well, on number five, my advice is to make sure you use the Instruction Manual built into the infotainment system. The golf 8 comes with a paper manual, but it's much easier to use and find the parts you really need, so scroll up and ask for help, and there you'll see all the little options to find. Figuring out how to configure the system to fit your custom needs is really good because it tells you how to change things to fit how you want them to be. The beauty of the golf 8 is that it's really configurable, something we've really been doing. longing in cars up to this point, but as it's configurable it means there are plenty of options so you can make it how you want, so make sure you spend a little time when you're not driving to sit in the car.

Read this manual and just configure the car exactly how you want it, okay number four let's talk about one of the most controversial parts of the golf bait, the lack of climate control knobs and buttons instead of knobs and buttons, there you get the cleanest button. which brings you to this climate control spring where you can adjust it however you want. The benefit of having a digital interface is that you get all these other options like smart climate and air care that you couldn't do if it had knobs and buttons, but this classic climate is the equivalent of the previous interface and there is a better way to access it. he has to press cleaner for me, I press here on the temperature screen and that takes you to the finger screen right next to the control that probably not many people know about.

You can actually do it by pressing up and down or you can slide it and that's quite nice to do when you're driving because you can press your finger against the screen again in a positive way and adjust it however you want. The sliders down here are quite controversial. because they are not illuminated, but my opinion on these is that they are designed for the passengers, we have one on each side because it is cheaper to make the screen for the left and right hand drive vehicle market, so if the You look at how only a few passengers make much more sense.

The good news is that the climate control system in the Golf 8 is quite efficient if you set it to 22 in most situations you don't touch it. I have had this car for two months and I very rarely adjust the climate control anyway. Okay, number three, let's talk about how the paddle shifters work because there are a couple of functions that you may not know about because they're not immediately obvious. One of them is quite important. it's a bit of fun let's start with the important stuff now because there isn't any kind of manual mode on the shifter like there was in the old cars because it's a shift by wire when you go into manual mode on the paddles it tends to stay in it for quite a while, in fact, you can stay on it permanently depending on how you drive, what mode you're in, if you're in sport mode and that can be a little annoying or if you press the paddle.

By mistake I've heard of people driving these cars and they don't know how to get out of manual mode so the car doesn't even shift gears it's like in second gear and it's going up on the rev limiter so yeah. A little tip that's not new for the Mark 8, but is much more important: hold the gear lever up with your right hand for about a second and the car will automatically go into full auto mode now that you've been in cars for a while. time. Some of them have been having fun with the paddle like in the Golf Eight for a long time.

Some of them don't have fun but they still do it, but it's a really useful tip that applies to some of the older cars as well, what doesn't apply to the older cars is that if you hold down the downshift paddle for about a second it gains the number seven, now the highest speed, the seventh speed, if you hold it for about a second it goes to the lowest speed possible, I call it attack mode, that's pretty cool. not good on number two, my second best tip with the golf market has to do with this little button at the end of the indicator, now you can't see it when you're sitting here, which probably means you'll never ever see it.

Note that it's there, but it's pretty important because if you're not a big fan of lane assist and some of the other assistance systems, just press that and you can get rid of lane assist very easily by just pressing ok on the steering wheel. the other way to do it is to press this and then you go into this menu and it's much more difficult. The other way is also to enter the main screen, which will drive you crazy if you have to do that every time because in Mark 8 Lane Assist is activated every time you start the car.

You have to turn it off manually every time, but yeah, make sure you use that lever and don't go crazy. Well, first of all, my main advice for the interfaceGolf 8. user is to make sure you use the command center or shortcut menu, it is just one slide away wherever you are in the system and here you can choose your four most popular commands and these can be configured from from a pretty large selection, so you just hold it down and it gives you all these options here, so let's say you're a car journalist, you can have ESC up there, so you just drag it to recirculate the air, which is pretty useless and then release it and as you can see now in the context menu, I have esc, so it's accessible very, very quickly and I can even demonstrate it to you while I'm driving.

Okay, now let me show you how easy it is to do esc while driving. This is my favorite little road. I'm going to do it, it's 60 miles an hour, we can do it, we can do 50. so bring that screen down, press esc esc it should turn off completely confirm that bong is completely off, let's put it back on and that's it, we turn it back on. turn it off, let's just do esc sport, which is a little easier, esc sport is ready for my favorite corners, in fact, I would never divert them on this road because you just don't know what's around the corner, but if you want, It really isn't.

Difficult, oh God, and when you drive this car this way and make the most of its wonderful, wonderful chassis, you forget about all its little weaknesses. I know it can be distracting if you use it irresponsibly, but that's the same when a cassette was put in in a car in the 1980s. You know you just have to be careful when you look at the screen, but if you get to know it, you use the shortcuts, it's really not that distracting guys, I hope you enjoyed this friends assistant video, yeah That's right, give it the thumbs up as always, comment, share, subscribe and see you next time I hope it's very soon