So, it's here.
1.4 FR 5 Door. Tech Pack. Convenience Pack. Winter Pack (for a toasty behind on frosty mornings). Oh yeah, and it's silver.
Only done the grand total of 35 miles thus far, but, for those who are waiting for theirs, and are curious...
The Good:
No rattles (yet).
Auto Wipers that actually work!
The SEAT Sound System.
The Seats.
Coming home lights.
LED Lights!*
I have only seen one other one on the road in the past week.
48-point-something MPG on the 22 1/2 mile drive home, which is almost identical to what my old Mazda diesel used to do.
3/4 of a tank of fuel onboard
The Not-So-Good / Annoying:
The weather. (Raining all day![[:@]](/forums/styles/seatcupra/oldforumsmileys/furious.gif "Furious [:@]")
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Other cars getting in the way on the way home.
Seatbelt height doesn't adjust (never thought of this on the test drive).
HUGE blind spot over my shoulder on dual carriageways, cos I sit right on the thicker-than-most B pillar.
No cover on the cupholders a-la-Golf. ( = dust trap).
*Edit* = Plus, the base of the cupholder is not a textured removable rubber thing like in most vehicles, it's just a big plastic moulding which is non-removable. This means if you drop coins in there, they rattle around a lot.
*Edit* = The cubby hole thing in front of the gearknob below the heating controls doesn't have a rubber anti slip mat in it either, so stuff slides around in there too.
Washer 'Jets' rather than Fans (whhyyyy??).
The wing mirror adjuster joystick thing is fiddly. Plus, would be better if the mirror heating turned on when you turn the heated rear screen on. One less thing to faff with.
The 'Mode' light stays orange if you're in sport mode.
I find it almost impossible to see at-a-glance when I am doing 30mph by reading the analogue speedometer. Hence the MFD in the instrument panel will be spending most of its life showing me the digital speed readout. That is the single biggest niggle with the instrumentation.
*Edit* = It doesn't seem possible to de-activate the 'wipe when reversing' function (which activates the rear wiper when the front wipers are on and the car is in reverse). This has on more than one occasion lead to a big smeary mess on the back window, as occasionally it might just be damp enough to have the front wipers going but not the back...
Other Niggles:
Front number plate was delaminating, and the screws were in a different place on each side when I saw the car for the first time. Promptly replaced by the dealer before we got to the paperwork stage.
It was not as clean as it should have been upon collection. Bits of sticky stuff from the shipping wrap left on the paintwork etc. I thought there was a hair trapped in the laquer on the bonnet but it turned out to be more shipping-wrap smudges.
The cleanliness I can abide, just, because I will (if it ever stops raining) be sealing / waxing it anyway. Plus by the time I'd got the car back to work, driving behind a lorry, it was filthy anyway. But the smudges are just plain lack of attention by the valeter at the dealer. Still, I've bought enough cars in the past to know that this is almost par for the course. At least they didn't scratch the thing (like my last car).
Some other observations:
The * next to the LED lights is that they're, well... They look GREAT. But, I found the dip-beam-flip-up-when-switching-to-main-beam to be a little distracting. I'll get used to it I guess. But more than that, I've come from a car with HID lights, and, my initial feeling is that the LEDs just aren't quite *that* bright. I think this might be because the dip flips upwards when the main comes on, so you get a dark patch right on the nose of the car. Or it could just be that I was driving back on a night where it had rained all day, and for some reason, headlamps don't seem to be as bright when it's wet outside, maybe the light gets bounced around more or something.
Having said that, if you compare them to Halogen they are on a different planet. Plus, no more scratched hands or fumbling around in the dark on a cold winter morning/evening trying to replace lightbulbs.
The other thing I would say, coming from a diesel, is that it is WAY too easy to suddenly be doing 45-50 mph when going through town. This must be down to my being conditioned to accelerate until the torque runs out, then change gear and lift off. Oh, and the fact that compared with my old car it's dead quiet. Not Golf 7 quiet (I've been driving one of those for the last two weeks), but it is not far off.
The only thing I think I will REALLY miss from my old car is a proper heated windscreen (Mazda / Ford).
So priorities now are:
A) Clean it. Properly.
B) Get winter wheels & tyres for it.
C) Learn how to put it in the garage properly so that I don't have to squeeze in. (Or maybe I just lose weight).
D) When it's a bit older (and I therefore do not care so much if I make a bodge of something), investigate whether MK7 Golf Heated Fan Jets will fit the space where the Leon Heated 'Pistol' Washer Jets are.
I haven't played with the media system nor the satnav, nor the phone bluetooth yet, so cannot yet comment, but from a driving point of view I am well happy thus far.
There will be pics at some point, when the weather improves.
1.4 FR 5 Door. Tech Pack. Convenience Pack. Winter Pack (for a toasty behind on frosty mornings). Oh yeah, and it's silver.
Only done the grand total of 35 miles thus far, but, for those who are waiting for theirs, and are curious...
The Good:
No rattles (yet).
Auto Wipers that actually work!
The SEAT Sound System.
The Seats.
Coming home lights.
LED Lights!*
I have only seen one other one on the road in the past week.
48-point-something MPG on the 22 1/2 mile drive home, which is almost identical to what my old Mazda diesel used to do.
3/4 of a tank of fuel onboard
The Not-So-Good / Annoying:
The weather. (Raining all day
)Other cars getting in the way on the way home.
Seatbelt height doesn't adjust (never thought of this on the test drive).
HUGE blind spot over my shoulder on dual carriageways, cos I sit right on the thicker-than-most B pillar.
No cover on the cupholders a-la-Golf. ( = dust trap).
*Edit* = Plus, the base of the cupholder is not a textured removable rubber thing like in most vehicles, it's just a big plastic moulding which is non-removable. This means if you drop coins in there, they rattle around a lot.
*Edit* = The cubby hole thing in front of the gearknob below the heating controls doesn't have a rubber anti slip mat in it either, so stuff slides around in there too.
Washer 'Jets' rather than Fans (whhyyyy??).
The wing mirror adjuster joystick thing is fiddly. Plus, would be better if the mirror heating turned on when you turn the heated rear screen on. One less thing to faff with.
The 'Mode' light stays orange if you're in sport mode.
I find it almost impossible to see at-a-glance when I am doing 30mph by reading the analogue speedometer. Hence the MFD in the instrument panel will be spending most of its life showing me the digital speed readout. That is the single biggest niggle with the instrumentation.
*Edit* = It doesn't seem possible to de-activate the 'wipe when reversing' function (which activates the rear wiper when the front wipers are on and the car is in reverse). This has on more than one occasion lead to a big smeary mess on the back window, as occasionally it might just be damp enough to have the front wipers going but not the back...
Other Niggles:
Front number plate was delaminating, and the screws were in a different place on each side when I saw the car for the first time. Promptly replaced by the dealer before we got to the paperwork stage.
It was not as clean as it should have been upon collection. Bits of sticky stuff from the shipping wrap left on the paintwork etc. I thought there was a hair trapped in the laquer on the bonnet but it turned out to be more shipping-wrap smudges.
The cleanliness I can abide, just, because I will (if it ever stops raining) be sealing / waxing it anyway. Plus by the time I'd got the car back to work, driving behind a lorry, it was filthy anyway. But the smudges are just plain lack of attention by the valeter at the dealer. Still, I've bought enough cars in the past to know that this is almost par for the course. At least they didn't scratch the thing (like my last car).
Some other observations:
The * next to the LED lights is that they're, well... They look GREAT. But, I found the dip-beam-flip-up-when-switching-to-main-beam to be a little distracting. I'll get used to it I guess. But more than that, I've come from a car with HID lights, and, my initial feeling is that the LEDs just aren't quite *that* bright. I think this might be because the dip flips upwards when the main comes on, so you get a dark patch right on the nose of the car. Or it could just be that I was driving back on a night where it had rained all day, and for some reason, headlamps don't seem to be as bright when it's wet outside, maybe the light gets bounced around more or something.
Having said that, if you compare them to Halogen they are on a different planet. Plus, no more scratched hands or fumbling around in the dark on a cold winter morning/evening trying to replace lightbulbs.
The other thing I would say, coming from a diesel, is that it is WAY too easy to suddenly be doing 45-50 mph when going through town. This must be down to my being conditioned to accelerate until the torque runs out, then change gear and lift off. Oh, and the fact that compared with my old car it's dead quiet. Not Golf 7 quiet (I've been driving one of those for the last two weeks), but it is not far off.
The only thing I think I will REALLY miss from my old car is a proper heated windscreen (Mazda / Ford).
So priorities now are:
A) Clean it. Properly.
B) Get winter wheels & tyres for it.
C) Learn how to put it in the garage properly so that I don't have to squeeze in. (Or maybe I just lose weight).
D) When it's a bit older (and I therefore do not care so much if I make a bodge of something), investigate whether MK7 Golf Heated Fan Jets will fit the space where the Leon Heated 'Pistol' Washer Jets are.
I haven't played with the media system nor the satnav, nor the phone bluetooth yet, so cannot yet comment, but from a driving point of view I am well happy thus far.
There will be pics at some point, when the weather improves.
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Nor is it big enough to accommodate a standard size bottle of wine - nor do I do that whilst I am driving either haha.
But it does accommodate a Galaxy S3
![[B)]](/forums/styles/seatcupra/oldforumsmileys/shades.gif "Cool [B)]")
