Light and and sight pack or convenience pack?

[sudsonsundaze]

Anyone know on choosing specs online the for the new GTI what is the difference between these two? Is speccing the light and sight making sure you have the full LED's? or does convenience give you that plus more? ( as price suggests) thanks

[adc4848]

Hi, The convenience pack includes the light and sight pack and folding mirrors. VW have bundled the most popular options and offered a discount.
The two options would of cost £310 separately but together they are £225. Also the parking pack is available now which includes the rear view camera
and the cruise and park pack for £425 instead of £640 a big saving! I hope this answers your Question.

[Dink]

It's a saving for new customers and a bumming for people who have already ordered lol

[adc4848]

Yeah right! I've already ordered the Light and Sight pack and would happily paid another 75 notes for the folding mirrors. Too late to make any changes now!

[sudsonsundaze]

adc4848,thanks for that. I see now when you choose the convenience pack it includes the light and sight pack, which it didn't do the other week back. It still lists foldable mirrors as an extra, even though you can see it in the icon for the convenience pack?! Yes that sucks for those who have ordered already.

[Dink]

I've paid for it all individually So I'm not what you call happy.

[blackertracker]

FFS. Thanks for the heads up. Why VW can't get a simple thing right like the description of these packs on the website is beyond me. I'll be chasing my dealer for a discount on this now.

[RUM4MO]

This sounds like something I should look into as wife placed an order for a 1.2 110PS SEL two weeks ago.

Though, it was said, by the salesman, that VW always play fair and it is the customer that gets the benefit of any changes if there are any changes during the initial order period.

Maybe I should stop believing in Santa Clause - or be pleasantly surprised when the car appears.

Next stop will be a look at the configurator - which I complained to the salesman about as it is a great concept but really not fully tested before going live - same old same old that happens a lot!

Edited to correct stupid spelling mistakes!

[RUM4MO]

Hum, still as clear as mud for me with respect to any changes in option packs, wife has got her "order number" today, so at least the official process has started!

One thing that is confusing me/her as her car is to be a 5 door SEL 1.2TSI 110PS 6 speed, is, the price increases soon, the new model year changes should happen with that price change, but the configurator still offers the 1.2TSI 110 engine at a time when I thought that orders for that engine should have closed and the UP 3 cylinder 1.0TSI 110PS takes over, but some of the option packs have changed - though maybe that is to soften the blow of price increases.

[blackertracker]

The 1.2TSI 110 engine has indeed now been dropped and replaced with the 1.0TSI 110.

[RUM4MO]

The 1.2TSI 110 engine has indeed now been dropped and replaced with the 1.0TSI 110.

Well I'm hoping to stay "lucky" and get the 1.2TSI 110PS, I just don't trust VAG's engines if they have not got some "history" - see 2.0TSI and 1.4TSI problems for justification of that way of thinking.

I know that the talk is, if it is not 1.0 turbo charged and 3 cylinders, then it is not right, but sometimes fashion/fad feeds the imagination more than progress and efficiency. Sir Clive Sinclair would never have done that - oh sorry, he championed it!

[richardpolosel]

I ordered polo sel with 4 cylinders dsg 1.2 before convenience pack was listed and engine spec dropped
I paid for light pack and folding mirrors
car arrived without folding mirrors
Anyone else have the same problem?
Could the introduction of convenience pack option after order before delivery have thrown out the order because of the price being cheaper for the new option which would have included both options ordered in one option for less money?
garage gave me £250 compensation and first free service
I would rather have had folding mirrors!!!!!!!!!!

[vc-10]

I'm fairly sure that people have retro-fitted folding mirrors to a 6r. I doubt that it would be impossible on the 6c- maybe try and persuade the garage to fit them instead of the cash? Or take that £250 and the money you would have spent on your first service to get them fitted!

[richardpolosel]

£950 to fit by specialist garage

I offered to repay £250 and drop free service if supplier would retro fit

volkswagen head office write cannot retro fit mirrors at supplier garage main dealer

volkswagen say I will invalidate warranty on anything I carry out work on the car myself

I was offerd new car but I did not want to wait 5 months again and receive 3 cylinder engine!!!!!

[RUM4MO]

That leaves a bad taste in your mouth I'd think. I had hoped that folding mirrors might just get fitted although I did not include them, but car came as spec'd exactly although also ordered during the closing days of "1.2TSI 110PS" orders.

I'd like folding mirrors, a bit, but as said not enough to pay extra for them, so I have never had a car with them fitted, although I admit to trying to add them to my Passat order back in late 1999/early 2000 when the folding mirrors became available options.

Now you need to get over this and "enjoy" your compensation - unless the emissions figures have been fiddled - whoops, sorry I said that!

I had a similar issue with a Ford Escort Ghia 5 door 1.6 I bought back in 1982, it should have come with tinted windows which were only a £75 extra on the previous "issue" of that model, I even attended a dealership meeting and said that I'd repay the £75 if they would change the glass - they were making it sound like "what is the problem it is only a small thing easily sorted" - that was until I put it straight back to them to do just that and charge me the £75, they eventually backed down and said sorry! What they had done with me was to show me a car from the latest catalogue at model change time, then got me a, unknown to me, current and not new model in from another dealer, it had 175/70 tyres instead of 155/80 - so that was good (looking), but did not make the windows tinted or give make the aerial electric, the radio to have a cassette player or a locking fuel cap, that annoyed me for quite a long time even after they got a car radio place to remove the Ford radio and manual aerial and fit a non Ford radio-cassette player and electric aerial and replaced the fuel cap for a locking one!!