What would you change about your Polo?
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Re: What would you change about your Polo?
If I could go back I think knowing what I know now I would have seriously questioned ordering the car at all
I would though if I could change anything would be
Bigger fuel tank
Ordered a diesel for better fuel economy, currently getting 220 miles on a tank
The screen wash tank be bigger
Possibly a different colour
Ordered a 115 instead of the 95 and got the 6th gear
Ordered the LED headlights
Possible lane assist
Can tell I’ve not gelled with this car at all, private plate is still not on and won’t be
I would though if I could change anything would be
Bigger fuel tank
Ordered a diesel for better fuel economy, currently getting 220 miles on a tank
The screen wash tank be bigger
Possibly a different colour
Ordered a 115 instead of the 95 and got the 6th gear
Ordered the LED headlights
Possible lane assist
Can tell I’ve not gelled with this car at all, private plate is still not on and won’t be
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Re: What would you change about your Polo?
Wow! 220 miles a tank is shocking - do you have an exceptionally short commute, or stuck in perpetual gridlock (or both)? My GTI gives me about 280 miles per tank (34mpg average), on a moderately congested 13 miles each way commute (20-25mph average trip speed on my commute).Kittycat wrote: ↑Wed Mar 06, 2019 8:09 pm If I could go back I think knowing what I know now I would have seriously questioned ordering the car at all
I would though if I could change anything would be
Bigger fuel tank
Ordered a diesel for better fuel economy, currently getting 220 miles on a tank
The screen wash tank be bigger
Possibly a different colour
Ordered a 115 instead of the 95 and got the 6th gear
Ordered the LED headlights
Possible lane assist
Can tell I’ve not gelled with this car at all, private plate is still not on and won’t be
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Re: What would you change about your Polo?
To be honest my work commute can variemonkeyhanger wrote: ↑Wed Mar 06, 2019 10:36 pmWow! 220 miles a tank is shocking - do you have an exceptionally short commute, or stuck in perpetual gridlock (or both)? My GTI gives me about 280 miles per tank (34mpg average), on a moderately congested 13 miles each way commute (20-25mph average trip speed on my commute).Kittycat wrote: ↑Wed Mar 06, 2019 8:09 pm If I could go back I think knowing what I know now I would have seriously questioned ordering the car at all
I would though if I could change anything would be
Bigger fuel tank
Ordered a diesel for better fuel economy, currently getting 220 miles on a tank
The screen wash tank be bigger
Possibly a different colour
Ordered a 115 instead of the 95 and got the 6th gear
Ordered the LED headlights
Possible lane assist
Can tell I’ve not gelled with this car at all, private plate is still not on and won’t be
Some days I can do 50 miles a day and others I can do a mile
If I go into the city weekly it’s around a 30 mile journey
But I had a shot of a 1.0 polo before I got mine and actually thought there was a problem with the needle on the dash as i ran it for ages before it budged from full.
See if my car was a GTI I would have no reason to moan and would expect it to be around this mile range
However I’m averaging around 100 miles less and it’s a 1.0
It’s going into VW this week for investigation as even the guy in service said that it didn’t sound right when my car went for recall with the seatbelt
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Re: What would you change about your Polo?
You might want to log the following for VW (and maybe us too):-
Daily or trip miles (trip resets after 2 hours of car inactivity), average speed for trip, mpg.
If you've an average trip speed of more than 20mph in mixed traffic, you've faced a little congestion and at least 40mpg is expected for more than a 10 mile journey.
Average trip speed of more than 30mph then congestion is negligible and you should be pushing 50mpg for a 10 mile trip.
For a 1 mile journey on a cold engine then you'd be lucky to break 20mpg.
I'm guessing that your "tank fill" is in the region of 38l/8.5 Gallon for tank average of 27mpg (so you don't run the tank completely dry between fills).
Daily or trip miles (trip resets after 2 hours of car inactivity), average speed for trip, mpg.
If you've an average trip speed of more than 20mph in mixed traffic, you've faced a little congestion and at least 40mpg is expected for more than a 10 mile journey.
Average trip speed of more than 30mph then congestion is negligible and you should be pushing 50mpg for a 10 mile trip.
For a 1 mile journey on a cold engine then you'd be lucky to break 20mpg.
I'm guessing that your "tank fill" is in the region of 38l/8.5 Gallon for tank average of 27mpg (so you don't run the tank completely dry between fills).
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Re: What would you change about your Polo?
The hard plastic interior doors. Change to soft touch.
Great so far was long trip fuel consumption.
On a 1300km trip 5.9 litre per 100km average speed 94km/h.
Great so far was long trip fuel consumption.
On a 1300km trip 5.9 litre per 100km average speed 94km/h.
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Re: What would you change about your Polo?
Mine will have keyless but you know where the ignition barrel is after a short time. I don't think I even look anymore, it's just muscle memory.
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Re: What would you change about your Polo?
I have an exceptionally short commute, I'm only 3 miles each way.monkeyhanger wrote: ↑Wed Mar 06, 2019 10:36 pm Wow! 220 miles a tank is shocking - do you have an exceptionally short commute, or stuck in perpetual gridlock (or both)? My GTI gives me about 280 miles per tank (34mpg average), on a moderately congested 13 miles each way commute (20-25mph average trip speed on my commute).
But even I'm getting 340 miles to tank.
Something seriously wrong with that car if it's only doing 220 miles per tank.
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Re: What would you change about your Polo?
Or do what I used to do when I had my first car, a 2002 Polo which didn't even have central locking, let alone remote locking. In the dark I would put my finger along the length of the key when putting it into the lock, so that I could feel for the slot and not scratch the paintwork. Same thing can be done with the ignition too, although I'd agree with @peeceeuk, it's muscle memory after a few weeks!
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Re: What would you change about your Polo?
I'm in a loan car at the moment, and there are two notable differences to my regular GTI+, firstly with stop / start the engine does not restart if the vehicle in front moves off as it does in the GTI. Secondarily it does appear that the rear parking sensors are triggered in traffic, as I have them come on with the only warning indication coming from the rear sensors. I've never observed this in 9K of miles in the GTI..monkeyhanger wrote: ↑Thu Feb 28, 2019 2:22 pmMy Polo GTI+ does not activate rear parking sensors unless I'm in reverse, nor does my MK7 Golf R, or any VW I have previously had which has had factory tot parking sensors. All sensors do stop working above a certain speed (8mph-ish), presumably because the feedback update rate of the sensors can't keep up above that speed.Andy Beats wrote: ↑Thu Feb 28, 2019 1:27 pmHang on though....I need clarification as I'm confused.RUM4MO wrote: ↑Thu Feb 28, 2019 1:22 pm I think that all the parking sensors on the current generation of parking controller that VW Group have been using for maybe almost 10years are always active when stationary and stay active up to maybe 10KPH - or more. It took me a short time to become aware of that after driving my own car that has the previous generation on parking sensors which the rears are only active when reverse is selected, or auto activate if starting the engine in a confined space, with that car I need to remember to manually switch the system on when driving into a parking space etc to enable the front sensors now that I also drive a Polo that does that itself - one day I will fail!
Apart from the fact I thought rear sensors needed reverse to be selected, I've twice had the car slam on the brakes when I've been reversing and it's assumed I've not seen stuff.
This isn't normal parking sensor behaviour, so I assumed it was an anti rear-collision device as well...?
I've never had the rear sensors activate when only going forward. Not sure if the car is intelligent enough to put rears on if you simply roll backwards from a standstill. The front sensors can and do come on themselves if you're crawling in traffic, thanks to the highly irritating "park assist" that I have to turn off every journey (but stays off on the Golf once you have opted not to have it on).
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Re: What would you change about your Polo?
The auto-restart when the car in front moves off is part of the ACC system I believe.
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Re: What would you change about your Polo?
The car restarts just because the car in front has moved off?
Why on earth would VW put that completely unnecessary feature on a car....?
I can't get my head around anything other than driver input re-starting the car, not the actions of others around you.
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Re: What would you change about your Polo?
It annoys the hell out of me - stuck in a line of traffic at the lights with the engine off and the cars all bunch up a little bit and my car fires up to go without any input from me. Clearly they think that the driver is incapable of decoding when to restart and move off. It can't be switched off either.Andy Beats wrote: ↑Mon Mar 11, 2019 11:07 amThe car restarts just because the car in front has moved off?
Why on earth would VW put that completely unnecessary feature on a car....?
I can't get my head around anything other than driver input re-starting the car, not the actions of others around you.
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Re: What would you change about your Polo?
With this and the auto-braking, VW clearly think all their owners are idiots.monkeyhanger wrote: ↑Mon Mar 11, 2019 11:15 am It annoys the hell out of me - stuck in a line of traffic at the lights with the engine off and the cars all bunch up a little bit and my car fires up to go without any input from me. Clearly they think that the driver is incapable of decoding when to restart and move off. It can't be switched off either.
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Re: What would you change about your Polo?
I suspect cars with ACC start when the vehicle in front moves away is due to the traffic assist system that comes with ACC.