MK5 Golf GTI

All Things Mk5 => Mk5 General Area => Topic started by: mortygttdi on January 19, 2010, 06:25:57 am

Title: Other VAG vehicle electrics
Post by: mortygttdi on January 19, 2010, 06:25:57 am: My car has gone for some body repairs due to some kind lady re-designing the front end...! any way I've got a Seat altea XL has an hire car, its quite nice with all the top spec.

What ive noticed on the steering wheel is that the MFSW has 8 buttons?? on the right is the volume up and down and station up and down, on the left is the station preset up and down then the star mute and then the interesting one is the source button which changes between radio aux and cd???? how can SEAT have this feature but VW cant get off there geeky skinny hides and sort this.

The RNS510 has loads of features and could do with a source button on the steering wheel.

Darren
Title: Re: Other VAG vehicle electrics
Post by: stealthwolf on January 19, 2010, 10:47:38 am: I thought the VW MFSW had eight buttons too?!?!?
Title: Re: Other VAG vehicle electrics
Post by: VC on January 19, 2010, 11:52:37 am: :worthless:
Title: Re: Other VAG vehicle electrics
Post by: mortygttdi on January 19, 2010, 02:00:07 pm: It does Dave but no source button its just a phone button?? VC ill go and get some.

Darren
Title: Re: Other VAG vehicle electrics
Post by: mortygttdi on January 19, 2010, 04:05:15 pm: The pics
Hire car
(https://www.mk5golfgti.co.uk/forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fdaz.co%2Fmedia%2Fss4%2Fmortygttdi%2FS1050803.jpg&hash=c3ec4c2ec1d4674d633c5758c4213c9f14b1cc00)
Steering wheel(quite small for a mini mpv
(https://www.mk5golfgti.co.uk/forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fdaz.co%2Fmedia%2Fss4%2Fmortygttdi%2FS1050804.jpg&hash=483d57754cfa083cda20855e133a188c6226dcef)
Buttons to the left with the circle source button, mute and track/station preset up/down
(https://www.mk5golfgti.co.uk/forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fdaz.co%2Fmedia%2Fss4%2Fmortygttdi%2FS1050805.jpg&hash=6f002ee05eb151088d48f0cba55d8037ab925e1b)
Buttons on the right with volume up/down and station search
(https://www.mk5golfgti.co.uk/forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fdaz.co%2Fmedia%2Fss4%2Fmortygttdi%2FS1050806.jpg&hash=781336a1d270bb328c0a120da3a7666b8c68b8a1)
This also uses the MF stork???
(https://www.mk5golfgti.co.uk/forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fdaz.co%2Fmedia%2Fss4%2Fmortygttdi%2FS1050807.jpg&hash=b108f77b1b65db51df2fbc696327067d7ee44702)
And has the cruise(not used it yet)
(https://www.mk5golfgti.co.uk/forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fdaz.co%2Fmedia%2Fss4%2Fmortygttdi%2FS1050808.jpg&hash=df083f67cafd81fb9b063ab12030c8b6b97b5551)
Title: Re: Other VAG vehicle electrics
Post by: VC on January 19, 2010, 05:13:49 pm: interesting, very plastic looking though
Title: Re: Other VAG vehicle electrics
Post by: mortygttdi on January 19, 2010, 06:24:39 pm: Its like a carbon effects plastic box :grin:

Darren
Title: Re: Other VAG vehicle electrics
Post by: edd666999 on January 20, 2010, 08:28:02 am: swap them for blank plates :grin: then try getting them to work in the gti!
Title: Re: Other VAG vehicle electrics
Post by: mortygttdi on January 20, 2010, 04:59:17 pm: If I had my old steering wheel I would have taken them out and tried them :grin: but got the mk6 wheel now, just waiting to see if SEAT bring the new type steering wheel out with there car line up.

Darren
Title: Re: Other VAG vehicle electrics
Post by: Garth on January 21, 2010, 07:30:42 pm: You're right Drren, that's stupid! I would rather have the features on those SEAT buttons than on my VW wheel. I can't believe how poor the mk5 multi-function is. The only controls that are worth a damn are the volume buttons. Even my old E46 BMW had volume, track up/down, phone and cruise control on the wheel and it was desgined in the dark ages!

Why the controls for the computer are on the wheel is beyond me. I would much rather have them on the right stalk as per my old S3 and have track up/down and source buttons on the steering wheel.
:stupid: