Controls for heating don't light up
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Unfortunately they don't light up, mine don't either.
What I've done is use the screen at night, or I've learnt which icon at the bottom of the screen is above each slider and use that.
You can also swipe the temperature at the top of the screen and it increases or decreases it by 0.5 depending which way you swipe
What I've done is use the screen at night, or I've learnt which icon at the bottom of the screen is above each slider and use that.
You can also swipe the temperature at the top of the screen and it increases or decreases it by 0.5 depending which way you swipe
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How often do you adjust the heating anyway? Surely with climate control you just set the temp once and never touch it again until the summer when you turn it down.
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.Do any of those features get thru to the VW brand or just left off all of the VAG models that use essentially the same parts. Muse that as to whether anything can be turned on but with VCDS coding locked down now probably not.
I think I recall reading a review of the latest Golf which mentioned that the same controls were not illuminated there either. It makes you ask whether the designers actually drive in the real world.
Correct; heating / ventilation controls aren’t illuminated in the mk8 Golf.
If the designers of the interior of the latest Leon / Golf are drivers, then there’s a good chance they’d have retained some conventional controls for functions such as heating and ventilation. Maybe they did, but perhaps the VAG bean counters in the Ivory tower wouldn’t sign off the use of conventional controls because touch screens / touch panels without illumination are cheaper.
The last car I owned that didn’t have illuminated heating and ventilation controls was back in the early 1980’s.
Fear not: an official accessory will be launched early 2021 to solve the problem of non-illuminated controls:
Full LED obviously the year after with the bar lighting at the back of the helmet. Put a few halogen bulbs in just to hold something back for the full, full LED announcement ?.
Still cold ?.
Suspect Seat still run the apps development themselves (why there aren't any), long thought that the VAG group should take charge and not leave it to the marquees. It would only be if each marquee had custom firmware that you could centralise functions. Probably the issue that they allow each to have its own infotainment firmware. Standardise the firmware, the apps and everything else then you get economies of scales and a better product
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They probably have a shared software toolkit for the infotainment hardware but then each does their own thing in how they put it together into the firmware. I'd do away with all of that and have one centrally developed product since the rest uses standard Vag parts. Management probably likes to toy with the software in each brand rather than pool it and the staff.
Suspect Seat still run the apps development themselves (why there aren't any), long thought that the VAG group should take charge and not leave it to the marquees. It would only be if each marquee had custom firmware that you could centralise functions. Probably the issue that they allow each to have its own infotainment firmware. Standardise the firmware, the apps and everything else then you get economies of scales and a better product
.They probably have a shared software toolkit for the infotainment hardware but then each does their own thing in how they put it together into the firmware. I'd do away with all of that and have one centrally developed product since the rest uses standard Vag parts. Management probably likes to toy with the software in each brand rather than pool it and the staff.
We are all different, you'd be amazed how oftern I slightly adjust the heater in colder months.
I remember that in a Transit, but did get used to the manual controls and after a while could use the dials/controls without even looking down..
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