I or someone else noticed that my brake lights have been coming on by themselves recently. Whats wrong?
A. There’s a TSB for previous model MkIV’s which references a possible brake light switch failure. It causes the brake lights to come on by themselves, which has side effects of causing the cruise control to cut out, and because this car has DBW throttle, it also cuts the throttle, and after a while it’ll get confused enough to throw a code because it knows you can’t really want to be using the brakes and gas at the same time, all the time. Thread discussing the issue: http://forums.vwvortex.com/zerothread?id=1591456 Some dealers will say that the TSB doesn’t apply to the R32. That is wrong. Q: When I tilt my front seat forward to let someone into the back, the headrest hits the visor, or more annoyingly it goes forward fine but gets caught when trying to put the seat back. What can I do to prevent this? A. Modify your technique. This happens even with regular Golf seats when the headrest is up where they’re supposed to be. To avoid this problem, don’t let the seat buttom rise and slid
