I'm not sure how others feel, but I've always found it strange that the mkVII Golf designers have chosen to turn-off the fan speed indicator on climate control when "auto" mode is selected (this doesn't happen in manual mode). Yes, I can hear you thinking "it's not a big thing" and you're right, but a major aspect of climate control that I sense when driving (besides the obvious change in temperature), is the sound of the fan as it changes speed from time-to-time. This often leads me to think- what's the fan doing?
Anyway, to satiate my constant curiosity, I reinstated the fan speed indicator using the following simple tweak (which I found by sheer accident whilst browsing through the "auto hvac" module). I can vouch that it works.
Restore fan speed indicator in "Auto" mode
(1) Select 08-auto HVAC
(2) Select 07-Long Coding
(3) Go to Byte 11
(4) Enable bit 6 (shown in screen above). Exit the screen
(5) If all goes well, you should get the screen above with the value of byte 11 changing to hex 40 (i.e. hex40=binary 0010 0000).
Note down the "Current Coding" value and the "New Coding" value as a record of the change (or take a screen-shot)
Press Do It! and exit the VCDS software
(6) Switch climate control to "auto" mode, wait a bit for the fan to start-up and you should get-back the fan speed indicator (as per pic above-my appolgy for the dusty camera lense)