Reply To: Power folding mirrors on new Golf ?

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Lewis

    Hi all, hope I’m not too late to the party, I have just ordered a new golf style in moonstone grey and I can’t wait! But I found the ‘mirrorgate’ strange, ‘electrically folding mirrors’ are listed as standard equipment on the Style model I have ordered, however not on the more expensive Rline and cheaper style, strange… But I quickly discovered this wasn’t the case, a quick search on Auto trader brought up 70 plate Golf Styles without electric mirrors (I scrolled through the photos and looked at the little mirror joystick at the side to see if the folding graphic was present), as I kept looking I then found a few WITH folding mirrors, which again confused me, but because I’m such a saddo, I checked on DVLA to see when the respective cars were registered, and found that cars registered in the first month of the 70 plate period (September) did not have electric mirrors, and cars registered from October onwards did have.  October onwards cars also get a pretty slick looking LED light bar which stretches across the grille, which is a dead give away! Light bar = folding mirrors, no light bar = no folding mirrors (this is just for 70 plate cars).  I’m probably telling you guys something you already know but I figured I might as well mention it, and if it clears it up for one person then I suppose the scrolling though hundreds of pictures was worth it.  Stay safe everyone!