Q: The VW dealer, both sales and service, do not know how to set the SDVC on my 2016 VW Beetle. Any ideas?
How do I set the SDVC? Nothing from the Brandon VW dealer (neither Sales nor Service). Nothing on You-tube. Nothing in the manual. It is not intuitive.
My car has 12000 miles.
My car has an automatic transmission.
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