Scudgie Posted April 9, 2025 Report Share Posted April 9, 2025 Has anyone activated the Dynamic Background lighting? What are people's thoughts on this. I'm tempted but it seems that it's no longer possible to opt for the free 30 day trial. Perhaps people who trialed it were unimpressed and VW are fed up with earning nothing (Btw I'm not that tight to begrudge paying £1.30 instead 🤣) luton-stu 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nighthawk Posted April 9, 2025 Report Share Posted April 9, 2025 On 08/04/2025 at 18:30, EXCESSIONOCP said: Hi All, I’ve just been watching a golf R YouTube video (about a Mk 8 admittedly) and when the guy switched to race mode using the “R” button the digital drivers display automatically switched to the “R” view with the rev counter at the top. My mk 8.5 doesn’t do this - does anyone else’s mk 8.5 do this or was this feature deleted? I forgot about this on the 8R and seeing I'm still running in my 8.5R this change has not yet registered or been acknowledged. I personally was not a fan of the display change, I like to change the display now and again but when I've got the display set up a certain way, I don't want it changing when I change the drive mode, so this is very welcome to me 🥳 and I think it's a mature change. Also for me when the adrenaline kicks in when I deside to plant my foot down I don't want to have deal with that change, it just adds a layer of theatrical dramatics that for me is not needed, but I can totally appreciate that for some that's the fun of it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Booth11 Posted April 9, 2025 Report Share Posted April 9, 2025 1 hour ago, Scudgie said: Has anyone activated the Dynamic Background lighting? What are people's thoughts on this. I'm tempted but it seems that it's no longer possible to opt for the free 30 day trial. Perhaps people who trialed it were unimpressed and VW are fed up with earning nothing (Btw I'm not that tight to begrudge paying £1.30 instead 🤣) £1.30! Daylight robbery! 😂 I remember opting for the free trial on the mk8R and not being blown away (understatement). I don’t suppose there’s any changes with it but if you spend the £1.30 let us know. 😁 Scudgie 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
luton-stu Posted April 9, 2025 Report Share Posted April 9, 2025 Has anyone activated the Dynamic Background lighting? What are people's thoughts on this. I'm tempted but it seems that it's no longer possible to opt for the free 30 day trial. Perhaps people who trialed it were unimpressed and VW are fed up with earning nothing (Btw I'm not that tight to begrudge paying £1.30 instead ) http://vwroc.s3.eu-west-2.amazonaws.com/monthly_2025_04/Screenshot_20250409_183230_Volkswagen.thumb.jpg.cfce7fb16ec32fd567c72e0bc8e24d43.jpg I have, I quite like it. I paid the 12.90£ Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Scudgie 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scudgie Posted April 9, 2025 Report Share Posted April 9, 2025 I'm sold, if it turns out to be a waste of £1.30 iI'm going to blame @luton-stu🤣 luton-stu 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mahalo Posted April 9, 2025 Report Share Posted April 9, 2025 Just been into the Connect shop and Dynamic Lighting is free for me for the one month trial period. I also noticed that Spotify is available and if you download and install it into the car and connect to your Spotify account then it streams over the inbuilt esim in the car. Not much good to me as I deleted my Spotify account. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Booth11 Posted April 9, 2025 Report Share Posted April 9, 2025 5 minutes ago, mahalo said: Just been into the Connect shop and Dynamic Lighting is free for me for the one month trial period. I also noticed that Spotify is available and if you download and install it into the car and connect to your Spotify account then it streams over the inbuilt esim in the car. Not much good to me as I deleted my Spotify account. I just checked this via the app and it came up with free trial available for me too. I’ve done it just to see if it’s the same as it was on the mk8. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scudgie Posted April 9, 2025 Report Share Posted April 9, 2025 Typical 😡 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Booth11 Posted April 9, 2025 Report Share Posted April 9, 2025 1 minute ago, Scudgie said: Typical 😡 It’s odd that it’s not showing that option for you John. Have you signed out of the VW app and gone back in to see if it changes? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
luton-stu Posted April 9, 2025 Report Share Posted April 9, 2025 I'm sold, if it turns out to be a waste of £1.30 iI'm going to blame [mention=30054]luton-stu[/mention]I also added Spotify and AirConsole to give my grandkids a bit of fun, it’s pretty horrific though and they prefer Apple Arcade, sadly for my wallet.Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blizzard60 Posted April 10, 2025 Report Share Posted April 10, 2025 10 hours ago, Booth11 said: I get why you and others didn’t like it. The change is good if it suits the majority of users. I’ve always liked the view that was the default for Race so it was quite pleasing to me. Me too, but there seemed to be a lot of hate for the "linear tach"!! I like it a lot as it was unique to angry green mode (is that what is was called in the other thread, I loved it ). 10 hours ago, AHG said: Because of it I can’t just scroll the R button to Indi mode and have to tap the screen Do you mind explaining? I'm not quite following!! Thanks!! Booth11 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scudgie Posted April 10, 2025 Report Share Posted April 10, 2025 9 hours ago, Booth11 said: It’s odd that it’s not showing that option for you John. Have you signed out of the VW app and gone back in to see if it changes? Yes, Rebecca, it forced me to do that owing to the new VW terms and conditions. Booth11 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scudgie Posted April 10, 2025 Report Share Posted April 10, 2025 9 hours ago, luton-stu said: I also added Spotify and AirConsole to give my grandkids a bit of fun, it’s pretty horrific though and they prefer Apple Arcade, sadly for my wallet. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk You have my sympathy. Fortunately my Granddaughter is too young to understand any of that right now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Booth11 Posted April 10, 2025 Report Share Posted April 10, 2025 52 minutes ago, Scudgie said: Yes, Rebecca, it forced me to do that owing to the new VW terms and conditions. Yes I had to log in afresh and accept that too before getting into the app. I had an email from VW a couple days prior about the new T&Cs. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chillly Posted April 10, 2025 Report Share Posted April 10, 2025 mines logged me out and cant get back in Rubbish Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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