Anyone else get frustrated by the supposedly "convenient" functions of the Altea's basic controls (and probably everything else in the modern VW group).
#1 Most annoying in the winter for me - the wipers. They come to a standstill when you stop, and don't start again until the car is travelling at the door locking speed. So if you pull away after parking, your screen stays wet and you stay blind until you are moving fast enough to kill a child, or you click the stalk up to the next setting and the wipers go crazy.
#2 Strangely pointless - the ice warning symbol "bings" when the temperature drops, but the symbol doesn't stay on, so you have no idea whether there is an ice risk if you get in the car and it is already below 4C.
#3 (Nothing to do with winter) - the bloody central locking. Every time I stop to get out of the car with the keys in to get something out of the boot or to see one of the kids in the back, the door is locked, so I have to go around to my door again to press the stupid door lock button (which I always forget to push in advance).
Seriously, what was wrong with wipers that were either on or off, warning lights that stayed on, and door locks that were either open or closed? I'm smarter than the SEAT Altea, let me make the decisions please!
#1 Most annoying in the winter for me - the wipers. They come to a standstill when you stop, and don't start again until the car is travelling at the door locking speed. So if you pull away after parking, your screen stays wet and you stay blind until you are moving fast enough to kill a child, or you click the stalk up to the next setting and the wipers go crazy.
#2 Strangely pointless - the ice warning symbol "bings" when the temperature drops, but the symbol doesn't stay on, so you have no idea whether there is an ice risk if you get in the car and it is already below 4C.
#3 (Nothing to do with winter) - the bloody central locking. Every time I stop to get out of the car with the keys in to get something out of the boot or to see one of the kids in the back, the door is locked, so I have to go around to my door again to press the stupid door lock button (which I always forget to push in advance).
Seriously, what was wrong with wipers that were either on or off, warning lights that stayed on, and door locks that were either open or closed? I'm smarter than the SEAT Altea, let me make the decisions please!