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@AHG and @Booth11 taking all of your advice and adding a dash of black magic, I managed to get both wipers fitted 😂 Not sure how I did it though!! The VW wipers are a 10-sec job to fit in, the Bosch a nightmare. Glad they're in now. Hopefully no more juddering and a clean screen for winter!

I've just bought the A864S and was trying to fit the driver's side RHD car. I cannot for the life of me get the mechanism to even attempt to click in. What am I doing wrong? The old VW one clicks in with no issues.

My Dolphin Grey R is about 4 weeks old now. It's not been machine polished or ceramic coated, due to the fact that I'm skint at the moment. 😂 It's how it came from the factory. I watched a video on YouTube from Yum Cars here in the UK. It was demonstrating their Foam + advanced ceramic sealant. Nick from Yum Cars demonstrated the affects on a clean car with no prep or water hydrophobic properties whatsoever. After using Foam + applied from a foam cannon, I was amazed at the hydrophobic properties after rinsing. I thought, I might give that a try and see how it performs on my own car. I think to say I am impressed is a massive understatement! I think the photo speaks for itself!! 😃

Ahhh thanks Rebecca. I have been into every menu except that one! Obviously, it annoyed you too at one time to track it down!

Is there somewhere you can turn off the 'eco tips' on the 8.5 R? In the Mark 8 there was a way to untick the box. I occasionally get a tip on the dash to lift off the accelerator. I've searched everywhere to try to find out where (if) you can disable it 😂

Thank you 😃 The plate is a play on my surname 😉

Just on the BLACK badge situation @Zico I spoke to my dealer and they have ordered me a set for the car. They did get another Dolphin Grey R in the same time as mine and no BLACK badges on that car either. They were very puzzled as to why the cars didn't have them from factory. Yes, it coped very well with the wet weather! It was a shame to drive it away in the rain, but it is what it is!! Hopefully you can get yours prepped and clean. Will look forward to seeing the photos!

Thanks Rebecca. Very happy with the car. Looking forward to the first wash to get to know it a bit better 🤣

After 3 months of waiting (compared to 25 months with the Mark 8), I picked up my Black Edition 8.5 in Dolphin Grey Metallic. The weather was less than ideal for collection and it pretty much rained heavily all day. 🙄 First impressions are it feels more eager to go in D mode than the Mark 8. Love the new infotainment system and I seem to have a 'car icon' shortcut at the top which allows me to disable the annoyances conveniently from the one location. The 360 cameras provide a more complete view of your surroundings and work well with the larger screen. A few quirks with some options which I will just need to work out as I get more comfortable with the car. I'm not a fan of why they removed the odometer from being always on the display. I have the dash configured like the Mark 8 with operating temps on the left and distance travelled on the right. Rather annoyingly the speed now appears in a smaller font below the R Rev counter and the drive mode inside the R Rev counter. I would like it the opposite way. Will have to dig into the settings more. I am enjoying the change of colour from 9 years with Lapiz Blue R's to Dolphin Grey. I hope all of you that have collected your new cars recently have many enjoyable safe and fun miles of motoring.

Like @Zico Another 'Black Edition' without the Black Edition badges. I never noticed they weren't on the car until I saw the image of the black badge. It just says Volkswagen. Everything else is definitely a Black Edition.

Well some good news about my infotainment system! Everything is back working again with no warning lights. The car sat in the office car park all day and when I went to collect it, I took @Underscore_1 advice with the hard reset. Four times in total and each hard reset, more things started to work and less warning lights came on. I had to call into Tesco on the way home and by that time only the SOS light in the roof was red and not working. I locked the car and came back and as if by magic, everything was working again and the SOS light was green. I think I dodged a bullet with that update! 😂

Good point! I did hold the power button for around 10 secs but nothing happened. The unit does seem dead, but will give it a go later.

Thanks Rebecca. Yeah, the service rep seemed to be clued up what I was referring to, so they must be inundated with software issues. The only positive on this is my new R is now in the UK and I should be picking it up in a few weeks. Still very annoying, as I thought I'd have a smooth run until picking up the new R. Maybe the car will have time to think about it's behaviour by the time I drive away from the office car park tonight! Here's hoping!

Well I did the big update last night. Everything worked and I had to sign in again via the infotainment screen which was OK. Used the app to lock the car and that worked. Got into the car this morning, the radio came on, the icons on the screen were frozen and unresponsive. I switched off the car, got out and locked the car thinking it would reset everything...errrm no. Now the screen won't turn on. 😡 Now I have a million warning lights and bongs that many of the systems are unavailable. So no SOS, no parking systems, road sign recognition. No way to change the temperature, drive modes or anything you control from the screen. VW can't look at it until next Friday, so I'm left in a bit of a disaster. At least the car drives, which is something.

Awesome looking car in Dolphin Grey Metallic. Hoping to get an identical one next Month. Really excited for the grey now after seeing yours!