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Offline domrees

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Re: Things for France.
« Reply #10 on: 18 November 2013, 10:58 »
I can confirm this.

Read the manual, it states that the changes need to be done by your local dealer.

I didnt bother because I was already in France by the time I realised...
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Offline joet

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Re: Things for France.
« Reply #11 on: 18 November 2013, 11:06 »
I can confirm this.

Read the manual, it states that the changes need to be done by your local dealer.

I didnt bother because I was already in France by the time I realised...

This is not correct. You CAN change the setting in the car menu yourself. Under the 'Lights' option there is an option for 'Left hand traffic' or 'Right hand traffic'. Just choose the correct one.

Offline domrees

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Re: Things for France.
« Reply #12 on: 18 November 2013, 11:15 »
It doesnt change when you select it.
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Offline sam67GTD

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Re: Things for France.
« Reply #13 on: 18 November 2013, 13:53 »
It doesnt change when you select it.

I can confirm it does change. I was messing around on Saturday evening with the lights option and when you change from one setting to the other, there is a very visible change in the direction of the xenon light from the headlights, together with a confirmation message on the colour MFD. It's only meant to be used if you are going on holiday, but if you are moving to a country where they drive on the right, then a local VW dealership has to reconfigure the lights.
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Re: Things for France.
« Reply #14 on: 18 November 2013, 13:57 »
I'll have another look. I spent hours on the damned thing whilst in France, it simply wouldn't take my selection.  I started thinking maybe I need to hold an indicator for a few seconds, cross my legs, sing the Marseillaise and some other arcane black magic to make it change.
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Offline Mark V GTD

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Re: Things for France.
« Reply #15 on: 18 November 2013, 15:30 »
Seems folks with Pro Nav have more success at this. Presume the 'dealer has to do it' bit can be achieved with VCDS?

Offline Phil 117

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Re: Things for France.
« Reply #16 on: 18 November 2013, 15:34 »
The thing which makes me think that Domrees is wrong (Don't get me wrong Domrees, I've not tried the options myself, and your car might of been playing up or something like that), but lets say I get the dealer to switch them over, I'll then be dazzling all the English people whilst driving down to the Ferry.

But if it's all down from the Sat Nav, that's nice an easy.
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Offline dubber36

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Re: Things for France.
« Reply #17 on: 18 November 2013, 16:55 »
The thing which makes me think that Domrees is wrong (Don't get me wrong Domrees, I've not tried the options myself, and your car might of been playing up or something like that), but lets say I get the dealer to switch them over, I'll then be dazzling all the English people whilst driving down to the Ferry.


If it's the same as "travel mode" in my previous old Passat, you get a flat dip beam, with no 'kick up' to the left hand verge. This is perfectly fine for driving on the left over here and will not dazzle oncoming traffic ones you get off the boat/train.
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