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Model specific boards => Golf mk7 => Topic started by: Sootchucker on 10 November 2014, 13:07

Title: Quick question please
Post by: Sootchucker on 10 November 2014, 13:07
Hi all. A very simple and quick question please. Last night, was out in the car with a passenger in the back, and they wanted to turn on the rear reading light in the roof but couldn't find it as it was very dark. When we stopped, I turned to have a look and saw that none of the buttons on the rear light array in the roof were illuminated. The lights themselves work fine when the buttons are pressed, they are just not illuminated ?

Now I may have totally dreamt this, but are the rear light buttons on the Golf supposed to be illuminated just like the front ones or not - I thought they were when I got the car ?
Title: Re: Quick question please
Post by: corgi on 10 November 2014, 13:27
Mine aren't... I suspect the reason may be to do with distracting the driver at night...
Title: Re: Quick question please
Post by: Sootchucker on 10 November 2014, 13:28
Ah well, at least I'm not going mad and it's not broken ?

Cheers for checking.
Title: Re: Quick question please
Post by: GrahamFR on 10 November 2014, 13:31
Passenger in the back you say.... surprised you were looking for the light....  :grin:
Title: Re: Quick question please
Post by: Sootchucker on 10 November 2014, 15:50
Now now, I had the wife in the front seat at the time, and the person in back seat was my mother  :grin:
Title: Re: Quick question please
Post by: mcmaddy on 10 November 2014, 18:10
You could have turned the rear lights on from the front console which is lit.
Title: Re: Quick question please
Post by: Sootchucker on 11 November 2014, 09:02
Yeah, I did in the end, but just thought I'd remembered it being illuminated at some point (must be going mad).

Bit more penny pinching me thinks, as the back of the car is certainly the poor relation to the front - no sill illumination strips, no door ambient lighting and now, no rear illumination for the rear light buttons.
Title: Re: Quick question please
Post by: Mark V GTD on 11 November 2014, 16:19
And in my case - no doors either  :wink: