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When my wife and I are both in our Golf, the system connects to both our mobile phones (mines Android and her's is Apple) and it is potluck as to which one gets selected for the App Connect shortcut on the infotainment home screen. Is there a quick way of switching between which phone is used for App Connect, or can a default phone be allocated to a user account?

I think this was the problem - the tolerance was set to 'early' under "vehicle" -> "headlights". If 'early' just means always on though, it's a pretty pointless setting 🤣

What should the DRLs look like on the Golf? Is it normal for both the light bar in the grill and what looks like the dipped beams to always be on?

This is exactly the problem I was suffering and I would never have thought to remove the split screen format, so thanks for finding this out! Interestingly I cannot get this layout to show aircon controls at all. It just doesn't show up as an option when selecting what to show in each panel. Come to think of it, I don't have an aircon shortcut on the "homepage" either. I'm not sure if there ever was one!

I'm not sure if this is a feature or even a gremlin, but when I used Android Auto it doesn't fill the whole infotainment screen. It's windowed within a white box, with black borders around the edges and the top. Does anyone else see the same, is there a setting I am missing, or is it behaving normally? I don't see the same behaviour on Car Play, which makes me think something isn't right!

Yes, I think I will. It only needs a few cm's taking off the raised lip and then it will fit snugly. Yep, got that. I was specifically looking for a lower position liner though. It fits perfectly on the top level.

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The boot liner has arrived and it fits well apart from at the back of the boot. It clearly isn't designed to fit around the brackets that hold the variable floor in the upper position. With a bit of pushing and shoving it can be relatively neatly tidied away, or could probably be made to fit quite well if you're prepared to cut off some of the boot liner's lip. Happy to share a photo, but can't work out how to upload it 🤦‍♂️. Is inserting from a URL the only option?

Here's a random suggestion - when I first got my Golf I set it up to use my mobile phone as a 2.4 GHz Wi-Fi hotspot to enable media streaming without having to pay for a data package. I soon changed my mind though as it stopped wireless Android Auto from working (as Wi-Fi needs to be enabled on the phone, which it isn't when you are using it as a hotspot). Then every time I started the car without the hotspot enabled on my phone, I got the 'media streaming unavailable' notification. I was able to clear this though permanently, by deleting the saved Wi-Fi connection from within the car Wi-Fi settings. So, how about trying to setup the same to force the car to use a Wi-Fi hotspot rather than the inbuilt e-sim for media streaming. This *may* trick the car into forgetting that it use to use the sim for streaming. Then turn off the Wi-Fi hotspot on the phone, and delete the saved network from the car's Wi-Fi settings to clear the notification. Can't guarantee it'll work, but maybe worth a try?

Ah - I didn't know that. Thanks for answering anyway. I think I will just go ahead and get it and see how it goes.

New user here! Just picked up my Golf 8 (not an R, unfortunately, but the information here is hugely useful anyways), and I was wondering if this boot liner fits flush when the variable boot floor is in the lowered position? I can't tell from the Ebay/Amazon description. Thanks!