VCDS tweak: Rear fog light - operate with High-beam "flash"
I've been chatting with a colleague on VWVortex (Kedama) who posted-up a video of a surprising and useful (IMO) function that apparently came factory fitted to his Golf mkV (NAR model): whenever the high-beam lights were flashed, the rear fog-light was also illuminated- presumably to indicate to cars at the rear that "something had changed" on the car in front.
Anyhow, I enclose the instructions below for those that might want to include this function in their mk7. Leuchte-programming provides two separate commands for this purpose as follows:
- Option 1: Rear fog light illuminates whenever the high-beam lights are flashed AND the rotary light switch on the dash is in the low-beam position
- Option 2: Rear fog-light illuminates whenever the high-beam lights are flashed AND the rotatory light switch is in any position OTHER THAN the low-beam position
VCDS Tweak: Rear fog-light - operate high-beam "flash"
- From the main screen select 09-Cent. Elect
- When the BMC screen opens, select Security Access-16
- Enter the magic number 31347
- When the main BCM screen returns, select Adaptation-10
- Confirm that the values in the Table below are as stated in the Existing settings column
- Only if the values in step 5 above are confirmed - change the settings in the highlighted adaptation channels shown in the Table below to the New setting column:
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Note 1: The table accommodates rear fog-light lamps installed in both LED and incandescent fittings
Note 2: Select the desired option (or both)
Note 3: This tweak does not work when the high-beam lights are "switched-on" (i.e. not flashed)
Note 4: The Leuchte-set in the table is intended for RoW vehicles -(not sure if the same Leuchte-set applies to NAR cars)
Note 5: No assumption is made regarding the compliance of this tweak with the local lighting rules for road vehicles (like the ADRs). Those interested in implementing this tweak should satisfy themselves in this regard.
Note: 7 I have omitted the normal VCDS "Tag Numbers" for the adaptation channels in the table for ease of understanding and to make the table more compatible with OBD11 dongles
Don