The SEAT configurator

[The Pielander]

I was checking out the configurator on the SEAT website and noticed that ESP/EBA/Hill Hold and Tyre Pressure Monitor is now £50 on the Cupra Has anyone else come across this? Would people order it without?

 

[phantombantam]

Its MY12 changes I believe and seems like more moneygrabbing by SEAT.

There have been a couple of threads on this recently but cant find the link (try searching MY12)

 

[The Pielander]

Pulling away on a hill with the DSG could be interesting

 

[VRSLOZ]

Pulling away on a hill with the DSG could be interesting

There is no way I'd have any of the DSG models without this feature, seems crazy to have it as an option

 

[sly200sx]

How can an option ESP/EBA/Hill Hold and Tyre Pressure Monitor be valued at £50, when ESP/EBA are safety features? Obviously a software tick somewhere on VAG and SEAT want £50 for it.

 

[nightflight]

Interesting point, i've not got ESP/EBA on mine as it was a much more expensive option on the MY09 cars.
Why do you reckon it's a software enableable option?
When i got mine electric folding mirrors were a £50 option and they need a much more expensive unit than the standard ones (i presume working on the assumption that make it cheap to have them fitted and then charge them through the nose when they get damaged!)

 

[Sypro]

Might be diffrent for evry country because here in Belgium that's still not the case.

 

[Octane2097]

i noticed this a couple of weeks ago,
FRill had just taken delivery of his MY12 FR and he has ESP+TPM+HillHold
unless his was built before the change, it seems strange....

 

[NetworkMan]

It's just the hill-hold and TPM which cost the extra £50, the rest of the ESP package is either £295 or is included with the car.

Actually it's more inline with Skoda and VW and Audi. On the Polo TPM is optional for most models and AFAIK hill-hold isn't even an option. On the Fabia they aren't part of the standard ESP package you need to buy ESP Plus, or pay extra. Pretty sure they're optional on the A1 too, but then so are heated door mirrors!

These two options aren't quite software only; there is all the switch/wiring for the TPM and I believe it is licensed from some Swedish company. I think the hill-hold needs an inclinometer to determine that the car is on a slope which is probably not part of the standard ESP.

... Update
Yes
I just looked it up. Audi A1 brochure says:- Tyre pressure loss indicator £55. Audi hill-hold assist £65. So count yourselves lucky Ibizaites!

 

[The Pielander]

TBH I forget to reset the TPM every time I check my tyres - I check them weekly but thinking about it I've never pushed the TPM button since I've owned the car. I'll remember it now....

Hill hold is something else though - I can't imagine driving a DSG car without it. Even my previous manual gearbox Punto had this feature as standard!

 

[Deleted member 62899]

Hill hold & tyre pressure monitor was standard on my Ibiza Ecomotive S (not SE) 60reg

 

[craigmk6]

It's the only option I did not get coz I hate hill hold and others are pointless imo

 

[sly200sx]

It's the only option I did not get coz I hate hill hold and others are pointless imo

Hillhold is great on a hill imo, especially with DSG

 

[Deleted member 55317]

hill hold is amazing with out it my handbrake would be on and off so much haha!! id ask them to throw it in for free to seal the deal they did that with my number plate transfer and it was £80

 

[Deleted member 55317]

centre headrest is now also £30 :O, racing brakes are £120 cheaper tho

but WOW i got my brand new cupra for £15500ish same spec car is not £19k!!

 

[skeat12]

Hillhold is great on a hill imo

Where else

 

[craigmk6]

i had a transit with it did not like it at all

 

[sly200sx]

Where else

OH good Andy, ye spotted my tongue-in-cheek

 

[CDNY18]

I still don't trust my hill hold it dosnt feel right I'm sure I will get used to it one day. Like the first time I used cruise control it just felt weird

 

[VRSLOZ]

On the Fabia they aren't part of the standard ESP package you need to buy ESP Plus, or pay extra

I got ESP/EBA/Hill Hold and TPM on my Fab as standard