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Many thanks for that. Very interesting. Yes, we will be headed for the dealer with it under the warranty and we’ll see what they say. I will ask them about the strange message at the same time. Hopefully as you say it’s some buried setting!

Apparently the amber warning is just telling us that the emergency SOS phone isn’t working for some reason. The VW Assist technician on the phone sounded like he’d had quite a few of them and said something about a possible software upgrade. The message about the data transfer setting every time we ...

It was shipped with the SOS facility. I deleted the only phone which it knew about and the message still appears as soon as you switch the ignition on. I know these new cars have a SIM and the message relates to how much data you allow VW access to via it. The thing I don’t understand is VW would ma...

I’m not sure! I’ll have a look and see if I can work out how to tell.

Hi, thanks, we did set it up so that it connects to our phones but generally they’re not plugged in. I think it connects to one of them automatically if it’s in the car. Maybe it’s related to that and we should try it after deleting the phones altogether?

We bought a new Polo 1.0 Match about 3 months ago. I’m probably being a bit thick about it and apologies if this question’s been asked before. Every time we switch the ignition on and start the car the infotainment system displays a warning message about the data transfer setting to which we have to...