What's wrong with this Golf Mk8?

[M4cruiser]

This fleet car (VW Golf Mk8 Diesel) is getting frequent, but random, messages with a "ping":-

"Emergency Assist is currently unavailable"
"Travel Assist is currently unavailable."

It sometimes happens 5 times in a few seconds, then nothing for a few hours!
What could be wrong?

[Blue Mk8 Golf R]

I had this it is a known issue it was fixed by new steering wheel
They will do number of tests and system update but the fix is above
I had a new wheel in December and no issues
it drove me bonkers the bing bongs

[M4cruiser]

Wow, thank you for the reply.
A new steering wheel ! Who would have thought it. I hope it's under warranty, because that won't be cheap!

[Blue Mk8 Golf R]

it was under warranty thank goodness mine is 21 plate

[johnao]

A new steering wheel should fix the problem. This happened to a friend of mine with a 12 month old Golf mk8. The garage “seemed to know what the problem was” and changed the steering wheel straight away under warranty. Seems as though it’s a known fault.

[M4cruiser]

Makes sense now ... it seems to happen as I start to steer.

Also, the wheel contains sensors connected with the travel assist and the emergency assist, as it's a model with the cruise control that detects if the driver is asleep and stops the car.

[DirktheDaring]

Had this a few times on my wife’s 2022 Tiguan, might have to book it in if it gets any worse.

[RayDonovan]

My 2023 Tiguan has started to do it...

Annoying