Volkswagen Golf 1.0 TSI lOnG-TeRm Test Review: The School Run

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With my daughter is starting her GCSE important last year, I quickly discovered that the modern test suite requires a lot of cars.

Every Monday morning Golf is loaded with art and textiles folder that contains two books A2 A1 highly loaded, along with a guitar, a pile of books and courses and revision of some PE kit. Golf's boot attempt awesome. Capacity 380 liters more than the Ford Focus and a low and wide load bay.

If we're late, we often, it also needs to act as an impromptu cafe for our breakfast. At this time, two cupholders in the center console and large pockets on the front door has been shown to be useful.

We also visited several private tutor every week, so I've started using the Golf as a mobile living room, and it was a decent place to spend an hour, listening to podcasts via Apple CarPlay or typing notes on laptop.

One thing that I have so far escaped the ability to add my favorite station on the radio, so I was scrolling through a lot of submenus to change the station. satnav has proved frustrating at times, too. It requires you to enter a full address not just a zip code.

Golf also has broken his run of faultlessness. In topping the 10,000-mile mark, the oil level warning light lit up on the dashboard. the level drops to the minimum mark a lot faster than I would have expected, so I will monitor this over the next few months.

A lunchtime dash to a nearby car accessory shop for four liters of Castrol oil durable rectified the situation. However, it was the first time in four months of ownership that VW has done nothing but gasoline demand once a week.

Sat-nav problems

Golf sat-nav display is clear and bright in the fashion of the day, but when it switches to night mode turns the background road map inky black and small so pale that they are almost impossible to see.

I was delighted to find that it can be set permanently to the fashion of the day, so now I can navigate in the dark country lanes without getting lost.

Claire Evans

VOLKSWAGEN GOLF 1.0 TSI BlueMotion 115 MATCH EDITION

The price of £ 20 735 Price as tested £ 21,120 Economic Burden 51.3mpg Error No Oil £ 46.99 Last seen 9/28/16

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