Hello All,
Been a while since I've popped on here which i suppose is a good thing as it means my GTI has been (pretty much) trouble free since I bought it almost exactly 2 years ago. Alas, the good times had to come to an end and its a fairly odd fault. Every time I unlock my car in the dark the headlight sensor doesn't seem to detect that its night and my headlights don't come on. but when I then start the car up the headlights come on as normal. The last few days its the same as always but I get a status message as seen below.
The message doesn't come up every time, it seems to come up at random times to me. I've searched the internet, the manual, friends, family, down the back of the sofa and I cant find anything on this issue. I've fiddled on the settings in the car to see if I've accidentally changed something and checked the sensor isnt blocked but.....nothing. I'm at a dead end. I frankly can't be arsed to take it to VW to get a sales pitch on their reduced surplus diesels so any ideas would be much appreciated!