Alarm, Stop, I Guess by Unlock, Lock, Unlock Sequence

Vento Tips & Quirks

Alarm, stop, I guess by unlock, lock, unlock sequence

Run the car for 2 minutes after long driveand before drive also Logically You should.

Vento (TDI) is tuned for adaptive idling RPM to make it more forgiving. The idling for 1.6 CLNA TDI is 800 rpm (when standing still and in neutral or clutch depressed). But moment the car is moving (or in motion) and then slotted in Neutral or clutch depressed, the idling is at 900 rpm.

Planned acceleration and braking on the road is hypermiling. You let the car coast as much as possible and avoid pressing the accelerator for too long. When you accelerate less, the rate of consumption of fuel is less and so the Distance To Empty (DTE) increases.The DTE is dependent on the rolling average mileage achieved multiplied by the detected amount of fuel left in the tank . So DTE is likely to show increased value if one is light on the pedal. it will show higher DTE even on broken roads as the car is likely to "sense" a higher amount of fuel in the tank with it sloshing around . Thus DTE is at best a rough estimation, nothing more.

one feature in Vento TDI is about auto accelaration at specific gears If i keep it in 1st gear and release the clutch but don't accelerate then it maintains speed upto 10kmph, in 2nd gear it maintains speed upto 20kmph, in 3rd gear it remains upto 30kmph, in 4th gear it goes upto 40kmph and in 5th gear it goes upto 50kmph.This is a feature in all modern diesels.i20 Crdi also does the same speed at the above mentioned RPM's. The ECU does this to prevent engine from stalling. Maybe its also due to the enormous torque at lower RPM in diesels. This feature is called as auto governing IIRC.

Even if the gear is in neutral, if you dontdepres the clutch (or keep it engaged) the starter motor will rotate the engine, flywheel, clutch, and the input shaft of transmission. Incase you depress the clutch it will not rotate the clutch and input shaft. Thus less load on starter motor. Not much but still a good practise.

IGNITION

Slotting the key in the ignition is a little difficult when the steering lock is engaged, one has to turn the steering wheel with effort to slot in the key - Annoying

If the cranking fails , one has to go back to switch off position and redo rather than from the intermediary position (true of TDi) – annoying in traffic

Clutch

clutch of the Vento has a long travel range and has a pretty annoying bounce back action. This gets a little better with time (or you get used to it), but you need to really master the release position to avoid jerk during gear changes. You will notice this jerk all the more when you release the clutch pretty quick during a up shift/downshift.You can minimize the jerk or bounce if you release the clutch at zero accelerator dip point - illustratively, take your foot off the pedal and then release the clutch. This should help. There is no escaping from the hard clutch though. Or if you are not at the right speed, transition the clutch and accelerator pedals exactly at the same time, albeit slowly (not sudden release and press). You can avoid the jerk. You will learn this quickly.

Reverse Gear Function n Tips

During reverse Once you are too close to the object on reverse gear there is a continuous audio beep. But when you change the gear to first, the beep still screams till you move the car forward. The reverse sensors I know on few cars stop beeping once you disengage from the reverse gear. This actually is a useful feature. Suppose you are in an incline. You shift to reverse and you see a block in your sensors. You put your forward gear, it still gives you a feedback as to how much your car can go back while you engage your clutch (For some people, engaging the gear and taking forward the car in an inclination is a big challenge). Now if the feed back stops the moment you engage your forward gear, you would have to take a guess as how tight the reverse distance is.

If want to engage reverse, push down the gear lever and then push forward to engage. If its to 1st, just push it forward. No need to depress the gear stalk when you are reverting back from the reverse gear - once you have pressed the clutch , just pull the gear stalk towards the neutral position . The force has to be purely horizontal , take it out of your mind that you had to depress the the stalk while engaging the reverse.

DOOR LOCK

Speed Based Auto Lock – Ventos have the speed linked auto lock feature. The doors auto lock when the car crosses 15 kmph (This can be enabled at the workshop if not already done at the time of delivery ). Got a confirmation that the doors can unlock automatically on removal of car keys from ignition too
Doors always “unlocked” from the inside – Unless child lock is enabled (applicable for rear doors) the doors stay unlocked from the inside. As VW says this is a safety feature allowing faster exit from the car in case of accidents. The locks, including child lock, unlock automatically on impact in case of accidents to enable rescue from outside.
Locks with Memory – If one tries to lock the doors (manually or through remote) when one of the 4 doors are opened , the lock does not get engaged however the car does remember the instruction so that once the open door is shut the lock gets engaged without any further press of the manual / remote button – the confirmation of the same is through either the glowing of the “lock engaged” button on the driver’s side or through short bursts of the indicator lamps . How this feature works is: Driver exits the car and closes the door. Now there is something in the back seat / front seat / boot, that you need 2 hands to carry. You open relevant door, and press lock button on the remote. All closed doors have their locks engaged. Now, you pick up your stuff, and close the open door with your bum. The last lock engages and the car indicates this with a single blink.OR Driver exits the car and closes the door. Passengers are still exiting, while driver needs to go somewhere quickly. He presses the lock button and leaves. As the passengers close their doors they get locked on their own, and as the last door closes, the car is fully secured. This works for all doors and boot lid, except driver door.
Boot lock/unlock – The boot can be independently opened using the remote while all the other doors are locked – no need to unlock the car for opening the boot. Unlocking the boot activates the boot light which glows for a certain time duration only (around 15 min I think) beyond which the boot has to be opened and closed again.
Bonnet Lock - You cannot pull the bonnet release lever unless the driver door is open. An inconvenience at malls where parking security often insists on peeking under the hood and you have to open the bonnet for them. Its quite embarrassing to first open the door then release the bonnet.
The boot release switch will work only when the car is stopped.
Fuel Lid Lock - a consistent behavior of this fuel lid opening when you unlock the car.
1. Lock the car using the remote.
2. Try opening the fuel lid. (As expected, it wouldn’t open since car is already locked).
3. Now unlock the car using the remote. fuel lid was also opened.
It surely looked like, car is remembering the open action performed on its fuel lid.Possible usage. You are in a petrol pump and wants to fill in the fuel. The attendant comes along and tries opening it, finds it locked and then asks us to open the lid. Now only thing the we need to do is to press unlock button.
the fuel lid does not have a separate popping switch.As long as the car is not centrally locked, it can be pressed open. Incase the petrol pump attendant is filling fuel and you lock the doors before he closes the lid, when you unlock the door next time even the lid will get unlocked and pop-out (and will ofcourse not pop-back in when you re-lock).
using the key(-hole) to unlock the car again unlocks only the driver door! Rest three doors remains closed
On pressing the unlock button on the fob first time only the drivers side door is unlocked. To unlock the rest of the doors you need to press unlock button again that too not immediately.
If you want the rear doors to remain locked from inside too, you can enable the child locks for each of the doors. However, this would mean that the passengers in the rear will not be able to open the doors from inside even when the auto-lock is switched off.
The purpose is to lock doors from outside when you begin a journey and it stays that way till the time someone wants to get down. The doors (and the fuel lid) remain locked even if the car slows down below 15 km/hour. They have allowed disabling of the auto-lock when any one of the doors is opened from inside so that the passengers can exit quickly in case of an emergency.
Boot lock & auto lock are being enabled normally by the dealer before delivery
if the door which is kept open is the driver door. If the driver door is closed and any or all of the other 3 are kept open, and if we lock using remote, it gets locked after the doors are closed. But if it is the driver door which is kept open, then pressing of lock button in remote is not at all triggering any action.

In the Vento, all the doors need to be shut for the lock to be armed - if any door remains open , then the lock would not be armed and if the lock is not armed then the windows cannot be rolled up as sequentially the actions that are performed are door shut > lock armed > window roll up . You would note that the window roll up happens after a noticeable pause post the arming of the lock.
You can roll down when the door is open since keeping a door open does not interfere with the disarming of the lock which precedes remote rolling down of the window.
Having recently activated the auto unlock fucntion which activates on taking out the keys from the ignition slot I noticed that the unlock function only works when the locks get armed due to the speed of the car crossing the threshold of 15 kmph - it doesnotunlock when the lock is armed by manually pressing the switch on the driver's side door.
If the doors are locked and the car is jacked up to remove a tyre, it starts sounding the horn alarm! Seems like a neat security feature against wheel thieves!(Need to check)

REMOTE LOCK using Keys

On continued press of the Lock button (as when you try and roll up the windows remotely), the parking lights blink only if all is secure. i.e. Doors/Boot closed & Windows rolled up. This 'blinking lights' are indeed a final confirmation.
Remote Locking – Can be done either silently or with the horn honking. Visit to the workshop is required to change it from one to the other. One Honk for Lock. 2 honks for open.
The honk is not sounded if any doors are open / not fully shut.
The honk is sounded even if the window glasses are not fully rolled up.
Without the horn activated, you will have to see the blinking lights.
the lock does not get armed unless the driver door is closed (you can try manually locking or with the remote lock while keeping the driver's side door open , you won't hear the click)
When one locks using the remote key and then opens the boot using the remote key , the lock light ( on the driver's side door) glows . So effectively the unlock makes the "lock" light glow
Say you unlock the car by remote, but get pre-occupied in some other task. The car locks itself after waiting for around 40 odd seconds. (normal light + horn action)
unlock the car by remote and do not access any of the doors for close to 30-40 seconds after which the car auto-locks itself.
unlock the car and open and close one/multiple doors and then leave the car alone for a while - the car does not auto-lock (have tested this for 3-4 minutes).
you should get enabled are speed activated door auto lock (gets activated after 15 kmph), all door unlock when ignition key is taken out of key hole or any door unlocked

POWER WINDOWS

The power windows (all 4) continue to operate till anyone opens any of the doors:
even after one switches off the ignition.
even after one removes the key from the ignition slot.
Windows can be rolled up/down from a distance – Press the “lock’ button and hold it down to roll up the windows from a distance. Press the “unlock” button and hold it down to roll down the windows. Useful if you have parked the car in a hot place and would want to allow the hot air to get out of the car as you walk towards it or if you get caught in a sudden shower and would like to roll up the windows
after a drive when you switch off the engine /key removed from ignition and even if you pull out the keys, the windows can be operated from inside using the power window switches for a couple of minutes. Only after few minutes, the entire power supply is disconnected and windows cannot be operated through the switches.
Once the battery terminal is disconnected and reconnected, the power window one touch up/down, convenience operation of all power windows using remote and pinch protection (roll back on sensing obstacles) have to be configured all over again.
Good thing, all the three can be configured by a single step -
- Close all doors/windows
- Turn the key to "ignition on" position
- Hold the power window regulators on the driver side armrest up for about a couple of seconds.
- All the above 3 features should now be activated.
recheck all the system after servicing, but it doesn’t state in manual these needs to be re-activated again if the battery terminals are disconnected.
If any of the doors is open, the window doesn't go down (via remote), although it closes for sure.

Lights (Headlight / Parking / Indicator / Cabin Lights)

All lights (including cabin lights) except parking lights gets switched off when locks are armed using the remote lock, great relief for those souls who have blown up a few batteries through their forgetfulness.
If you pull out the key from the ignition key hole with the lights on , there is an audible warning beep.
if you keep you cabin lights on (not on via door open or initial unlock but manually on) and try to lock ur car, the lights strobe/flicker to warn that you have forgotten to turn of the lights and they eventually go off, even in ON position. This prevents the battery from draining
If the indicator stalk is engaged to either side, the indicator blinks when ignition is on. If the indicator is engaged, and key is removed, the front & back parking light of the relevant side glows, and the car indicates this with 3-4 chimes as the keys is removed. If you don’t need this Just get back into the car, push the indicator stalk back into the centre position and you'll be fine.
The headlights switch on as soon as the ignition is in the on position, even before you start the car. They stay on when starting the car again. However, like other cars, they dim a little when cranking the engine.
Lets say that both the blinkers are on since you have pressed the emergency/ hazard switch at the center. Now, in between if you use the left/ right turn indicator; the emergency blinkers stop automaticallyand only the single turn indicator (left or right) is activated.After the turn is completed ; the emergency blinking i.e. both blinkers resume automatically. (don’t drive using emergency blinkers)
When you need to change the lanes, just depress the indicator lever a bit. The lever would pop back immediately but the indicator blinks for 2-3 times. Very useful in 4 lane highways.
Say you switch off the ignition but forget to switch off the headlights - there is a small alarm notification for the same. Not sure if the headlights switch off on their own later.
The interior light comes up when you unlock the car (by remote/door) - the same goes off once you start the ignition.
For the left parking light - basically, if you stop the engine while the indicator was still on and you alight the car, the parking light stays on.