JBR1
Passed Driver's Ed
- Location
- Gatley, Cheshire
For the dipping kerbside mirror, you need to set this up before it will work;
Turn on ignition, but don't start the engine.
Select reverse gear.
Select the nearside mirror on the mirror control knob on the driver’s door (turn it to ‘L’)
Adjust passenger side mirror so you can see the kerb.
Take car out of reverse gear and return to neutral, or ‘P’ if your car is DSG.
The nearside mirror should now be set to dip so you can see the kerb each time you select reverse, provided you leave the mirror adjustment knob set to ‘L’. Mirror will return to the normal position when you either (a) drive forward and reach a predetermined speed, which I think is 10 mph or (b) remove the ignition key.
If your mirrors are iced over or misty, you’ll need to move the mirror adjustment knob to the heating position. While your mirror heating is functioning, you’ll temporarily loose the dipping mirror function as the adjustment knob needs to be in the ‘L’ position for this to work.
I followed those instructions, but I'm afraid I could not get the mirror to dip.
We went in to the local VW outlet today to ask about that, and also our difficulties in connecting to Car Net and one or two other things.
The VW salesman had a go at making the mirror-dip work and he couldn't manage it either. He then went to seek advice from someone else, who informed him that the mirror will only return to normal after we have driven forward up to 15mph. We had to leave then and, of course, tried it out but unfortunately it still didn't perform, so we shall be taking it back in on the assumption that there is a fault.
Admittedly, it is not an enormous problem, but when you pay a lot of money for something you expect it to work properly.