8.5R Gremlins

[R_wannabe_owner]

3 hours ago, AHG said:

 

Wow, I remember Sinclair … that’s how old I am 🙂

Me too.
 

I also remember the Sinclair C5 from the mid-1980’s; I used to see one in the city I worked in and remember thinking at the time how terrifying it must be to travel in one of those in city traffic! 

[scuderiafolene]

So I am now in the official paddle not working club. Was on track and on the cooldown lap after 8 minutes of session it got stuck in S.

 

Also hit the royal flush in warning lights other the ones turned off.

 

TPMS stopped working alltogether mid session. Sign recognition aswell. And some reverse bla bla function stopped working.

 

Hard to focus on driving with all the beeping 😅🤣

 

[AHG]

18 hours ago, R_wannabe_owner said:

Me too.
 

I also remember the Sinclair C5 from the mid-1980’s; I used to see one in the city I worked in and remember thinking at the time how terrifying it must be to travel in one of those in city traffic! 

Not sure we’re talking about the same thing

you can’t drive the Sinclair Spectrum I knew

 

[Msportman]

8 hours ago, scuderiafolene said:

So I am now in the official paddle not working club. Was on track and on the cooldown lap after 8 minutes of session it got stuck in S.

 

Also hit the royal flush in warning lights other the ones turned off.

 

TPMS stopped working alltogether mid session. Sign recognition aswell. And some reverse bla bla function stopped working.

 

Hard to focus on driving with all the beeping 😅🤣

 

Hopefully RL or APR will bring out  TCU map and together with a sneaky stage 1 map it will all be sorted much quicker than VW !!

 

It seems to manifest the paddle issue when the car  is put under some sort of stress ?? Can’t see it being a steering wheel issue unless I’m wrong?

[R_wannabe_owner]

2 hours ago, AHG said:

Not sure we’re talking about the same thing

you can’t drive the Sinclair Spectrum I knew

 

No we’re not; totally different things, although both were inventions of Sir Clive Sinclair. This is the Sinclair C5 I was referring to; a single seater BEV that could be driven on public roads. Not something I’d want to have done, especially in high volume traffic conditions;

 

 

No mk8.5 type software gremlins with one of these though (apologies for going off topic).
 

[AHG]

Oh, no, I’d feel safer to ride my bicycle …

 

[Dollyman]

If my old memory serves me right the electric motor was the same as the Hoover washing machines.


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[AHG]

With the right gearing it is more than enough

The secret to EV motors is gearing as some small ones can produce good power at high rpm (up to 100k rpm and more) so a 1:100 transmission (internal usually) can make a small block create big torque and power

[scuderiafolene]

On 28/06/2025 at 14:27, Msportman said:

Hopefully RL or APR will bring out  TCU map and together with a sneaky stage 1 map it will all be sorted much quicker than VW !!

 

It seems to manifest the paddle issue when the car  is put under some sort of stress ?? Can’t see it being a steering wheel issue unless I’m wrong?

 

As far as I´ve read its really random. Like I stated. I drove pretty hard 10 minutes(not 8 like stated before), then went on a cooldown lap and half way trough it stuck. And worst part is I was doing like 80 in 7th, but when it got stuck in S it shifted down. So if it was a protection thing why shift down to put more stress... 

 

I am more and more convinced its some kind of unintentional error or a bug. Maybe something in the canbus that gets confused and blocks the receiver from paddle input and fail safes. There are no errors.. and there should be on a critical function. 

[Booth11]

On 28/06/2025 at 15:27, Msportman said:

 

 

It seems to manifest the paddle issue when the car  is put under some sort of stress ?? Can’t see it being a steering wheel issue unless I’m wrong?

I’m not sure it manifests when the car is necessarily under stress.  It does see, quite random.  When it showed up on my car, I’d been driving in Race mode but not particularly hard driving, but a mix of town and rural driving.

 

For anyone experiencing it, perhaps you can add your experience to this thread ((read the opening post) if you haven’t t already.  Thanks 

 

 

[Msportman]

4 hours ago, scuderiafolene said:

 

As far as I´ve read its really random. Like I stated. I drove pretty hard 10 minutes(not 8 like stated before), then went on a cooldown lap and half way trough it stuck. And worst part is I was doing like 80 in 7th, but when it got stuck in S it shifted down. So if it was a protection thing why shift down to put more stress... 

 

I am more and more convinced its some kind of unintentional error or a bug. Maybe something in the canbus that gets confused and blocks the receiver from paddle input and fail safes. There are no errors.. and there should be on a critical function. 

That will need some live data logging outside of the main dealers capacity …..VW seem only to work with fault codes from other responses at dealerships.

 

Hopefully. Blizzard gets a solution.

 

I know what I’d personally do is when it happens go straight to my local dealership and get the master tech to drive the car and record its issue even if there’s no fault code there’s an obvious fault. Leave the car there if possible.

If they get awkward get the techs name and ring VW at LMilton Keynes explain the issue and then ring VW finance and tell them no more payments until it’s sorted. Being fobbed off is an insult when paying £££ per month for a faulty product and they have the cheek  to retort there’s no faults.

 

As I said if the factory are aware now (Mr Blizzard) then surely they can speed up the solution.

[JoeGTI7]

On 24/06/2025 at 21:07, Booth11 said:

That is bad.

 

Theres no Velcro or zip, the leather is not removable. It’s very poor stitching on yours. 

 

 Mine’s not exactly high quality craftsmanship but it’s better than that.

 

 

 

 

 

 

this is mad, I was searching this forum a few days ago to see if I could find anyone reporting issues like this and I didn’t find anything, which suggests this is a dip in standards from the MK8.
 

I’ve noticed similar on my 8.5 Clubsport. Not quite as bad as yours there but I don’t remember ever noticing this in my previous MK8. The upholstery on both front seats is noticeably not that well fitted in my car tbh. 
 

 

[Booth11]

15 minutes ago, JoeGTI7 said:

 

this is mad, I was searching this forum a few days ago to see if I could find anyone reporting issues like this and I didn’t find anything, which suggests this is a dip in standards from the MK8.
 

I’ve noticed similar on my 8.5 Clubsport. Not quite as bad as yours there but I don’t remember ever noticing this in my previous MK8. The upholstery on both front seats is noticeably not that well fitted in my car tbh. 
 

 

That’s pretty poor Joe, and sorry to see another example of bad quality in addition to @scuderiafolene’s (stitching on my seats is actually ok) as this means it’s not an isolated issue.  Are you going to take it up with VW? 

[JoeGTI7]

17 minutes ago, Booth11 said:

That’s pretty poor Joe, and sorry to see another example of bad quality in addition to @scuderiafolene’s (stitching on my seats is actually ok) as this means it’s not an isolated issue.  Are you going to take it up with VW? 

I dunno tbh. I don’t think it’s as bad as the other pics in the previous post! I hate going back to dealers, serious pain, so it would want to be something really annoying me to warrant the hassle. I wonder what they’d do anyway? I’m guessing they’d attempt to replace the covers but I suspect that’s not an easy job and sure it could look as bad or worse afterwards. 

[scuderiafolene]

2 hours ago, JoeGTI7 said:

 

this is mad, I was searching this forum a few days ago to see if I could find anyone reporting issues like this and I didn’t find anything, which suggests this is a dip in standards from the MK8.
 

I’ve noticed similar on my 8.5 Clubsport. Not quite as bad as yours there but I don’t remember ever noticing this in my previous MK8. The upholstery on both front seats is noticeably not that well fitted in my car tbh. 
 

 

Just. Awful. Sorry m8.

 

No I think you should absolutely do a warranty claim. We need to keep volkswagen accountable. Its NOT a cheap car. 

 

I am going to dealers tomorrow with a nice list.

 

Seats.

TPMS turning itself off.

Sign recognition turning itself off.

Paddles not working.

Paint job.

 

I think we deserve the car we paid for - not more nor less. I am fairly lucky cause Swedish consumer laws are very harsh on this and I am certain they will fix it. I mean if they stich it together so it matches the other side without me seeing the difference I would be happy. I am not impossible. A new seat might have some different colouring.