I've now had my Leon Estate 1.5 eTSi FR Sport DSG for just over a week.
To be honest, I was really nervous about getting it having spent the last few months following various threads on this forum detailing all the many software problems people have been experiencing. Fortunately (touch wood) I don't seem to have experienced most of the bugs and problems others have so maybe the newer cars being delivered now have had some of the issues quietly sorted out.
Getting the bad out of the way first:
To be honest, I was really nervous about getting it having spent the last few months following various threads on this forum detailing all the many software problems people have been experiencing. Fortunately (touch wood) I don't seem to have experienced most of the bugs and problems others have so maybe the newer cars being delivered now have had some of the issues quietly sorted out.
Getting the bad out of the way first:
- The heating and volume controls truly are as bad as people said. They're quite unresponsive at the best of times, impossible to see in the dark, hard to find without taking your eyes off the road at all times and the shortcut for turning on the heated seats is next to impossible to perform reliably. All-in-all, quite frustrating. Some people say they set the temp and never touch it again and use this as a defence but the bottom line is, these controls are crap whether you use them once or regularly - bring back a couple of knobs and buttons!
- Mentioned in another thread, the CarPlay display issue is annoying but not the end of the world. I do have some other CarPlay oddities - sometimes I cannot get anything to play by touching the screen, only using Siri allows me to start anything and sometimes when using the navigation on CarPlay it displays the directions in the digital cockpit and sometimes it doesn't
- Occasionally the dynamic road sign thing displays odd speeds like 80 and 45. I think it might interpreting MPH into KPH which is definitely a problem!
- No electric seats in the eTSI. I only discovered this after ordering and was super disappointed but it's my fault for not reading the small print.
- This is a lovely car to drive with the DSG. I specified the option which includes adaptive cruise and I would recommend that to everyone (especially with a DSG) as it's just awesome, particuarly in traffic where it basically stops and starts for you.
- I love all the tech, wireless CarPlay, wireless charging, highly customisable digital cockpit, ambient lighting, the coast-to-coast lighting animation when you lock and unlock never gets old
- The boot is huge and the car generally is very spacious and comfortable
- Good MPG so far
- Apart from the bugs, the infotainment is pretty nice to use
- The car-based speech recognition has been OK for me. I've used it to set specific temperatures and turn on and off the heated seats successfully
- It just looks the business in Desire Red
