They're a double edge sword, had one in our Fiesta and Mini.
Great idea, yes, but the filaments are all too easy to see in some light conditions and, once you see them, you can find your focus being drawn to them.
It’s not standard on the Golf, but it is available as a £300 option - but strangely, not on Golf models with the 1.0 litre engine. So maybe if it were available on the Polo, it might only be an option on models with the 1.6 diesel or 2.0 petrol engines.
The optional heated screen on the Golf uses a wireless electrically conductive layer within the screen, so no filaments to distract the driver.Andy Beats wrote: ↑Tue Nov 27, 2018 1:33 pm They're a double edge sword, had one in our Fiesta and Mini.
Great idea, yes, but the filaments are all too easy to see in some light conditions and, once you see them, you can find your focus being drawn to them.
My commute is 5 miles.RUM4MO wrote: ↑Tue Nov 27, 2018 1:54 pm Hum, yes finding the elements and focusing on them, almost as bad as driving into a blizzard and finding yourself trying to home in on the snow flakes heading your way!
Muldoon, I have no experience of owning or driving a new Polo or the 1.0TSI engine, but are you saying that your car is not quickly heating up until the temp gauge is displaying a steady 90C which is where it should be? VW Group will have gone to huge steps to make sure that these engines heat up to their design operating temperature of 90C as quickly as possible so that they run with minimum emissions and hopefully best MPG.
Now if you are only using that car for very short journeys all the time, and demanding max heat out of the cabin heating system, then maybe you are stripping the heat out of the engine coolant system faster than the engine is dumping heat into it.
This is the first petrol I've had since the 90s, I've had loads of different makes of diesels in between - BMW/Audi/Mazda/Ford/Renault/Kia/Mini/Honda/Nissanmonkeyhanger wrote: ↑Thu Nov 29, 2018 8:23 pm Cold weather doesn't have half the negative effect on mpg for petrols as it does for diesels
Yes, I have the heater and recirculate on with a window open to keep the humidity down. I don't like air con, it dries the air too much.MilgeS wrote: ↑Fri Nov 30, 2018 8:31 am I have found the Pingi dehumidifiers are working well in my cars for condensation
I do find the windscreens are a nightmare to keep clear inside these Polo's though, they go cloudy and need wiping on a daily basis, anyone else found this? No amount of glass cleaner makes any difference.
So the very thing that could stop your condensation....is switched off....