Other VAG vehicle electrics

[mortygttdi]

My car has gone for some body repairs due to some kind lady re-designing the front end...!  any way I've got a Seat altea XL has an hire car,  its quite nice with all the top spec.

What ive noticed on the steering wheel is that the MFSW has 8 buttons?? on the right is the volume up and down and station up and down,  on the left is the station preset up and down then the star mute and then the interesting one is the source button which changes between radio aux and cd???? how can SEAT have this feature but VW cant get off there geeky skinny hides and sort this.

The RNS510 has loads of features and could do with a source button on the steering wheel.

Darren

[stealthwolf]

I thought the VW MFSW had eight buttons too?!?!?

[VC]

 

[mortygttdi]

It does Dave but no source button its just a phone button??  VC ill go and get some.

Darren

[mortygttdi]

The pics
Hire car

Steering wheel(quite small for a mini mpv

Buttons to the left with the circle source button, mute and track/station preset up/down

Buttons on the right with volume up/down and station search

This also uses the MF stork???

And has the cruise(not used it yet)

[VC]

interesting, very plastic looking though

[mortygttdi]

Its like a carbon effects plastic box

Darren

[edd666999]

swap them for blank plates  then try getting them to work in the gti!

[mortygttdi]

If I had my old steering wheel I would have taken them out and tried them but got the mk6 wheel now, just waiting to see if SEAT bring the new type steering wheel out with there car line up.

Darren

[Garth]

You're right Drren, that's stupid! I would rather have the features on those SEAT buttons than on my VW wheel. I can't believe how poor the mk5 multi-function is. The only controls that are worth a damn are the volume buttons. Even my old E46 BMW had volume, track up/down, phone and cruise control on the wheel and it was desgined in the dark ages!

Why the controls for the computer are on the wheel is beyond me. I would much rather have them on the right stalk as per my old S3 and have track up/down and source buttons on the steering wheel.