► A cracking time for ‘R’ Golf
► Time for a screen change
► Or two…
The Golf’s windscreen picked up a stone chip recently. Didn’t look too bad, but it spread like a fissure on the San Andreas Fault and after two days it was a foot long.
The windscreen replacement man said he’d never changed a heated VW windscreen, but he thought chips in all VW glass cracked faster than in, say, a BMW. ‘I reckon it’s because they’re making them so thin to save weight,’ he said. With that he popped in the new screen. Two days later a passing lorry flicked up a stone…
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Logbook: Volkswagen Golf R
Price: £31,475
As tested: £35,640
Miles this month: 2916
Total miles: 16,023
Our mpg: 31.9
Official mpg: 39.8
Fuel this month: £433.57
Extra costs: £0
Read more from the June 2016 issue of CAR magazine