All things bright and beautiful....

[Golfgirl]

Or rather not! Just want to clarify a few points about the lights on my Ed30....


2).  Why don't my puddle lights work in the doors? Are they actually lights or just reflectors? I could go out and look closely but I can't be arsed   In my Mk 4 again I had puddle lights but they don't seem to be working on the Ed30.

On this question, we have 'luxury pack 1' (Stupid name), and it includes the 'area lighting', which basically is a light under the wing mirrors that illuminates the road by the doors. It's rather obvious, especially on white cars as it lights up the side of the car too, so it sounds like yours isn't working or you didn't get the option!

I don't have the luxury pack, therefore no lights under the wing mirrors.  The lights I'm on about are in the doors.  On my old car they were red and situated in the bottom right hand corner of the front doors.  They lit up whenever the doors were opened.  It looks like this car has them but they don't light up.  Unless they are just reflectors as previously mentioned.  I must make the effort to remember to look when I go out later!

I have puddle lights too and mine beeps if I leave the lights on (apart from Auto mode obviously).

I would have it back to the dealers to get looked at.

Hmmm, that's interesting.  Do they illuminate every time you open the doors?  Interesting about the lights-on buzzer too....I wonder how I get it turned on?

on the highline can you not switch this function on/off there from poor memory?

I've looked and can't see it anywhere in the menu.  I've also looked in the manual and can't find anything in there either.  The only thing that seemed relevant in the manual is that it says the car won't have a lights-on buzzer if it has orientation lighting (coming home/leaving home function) which our cars have, but that doesn't explain why Makaveli has a buzzer! I also have the coming home/leaving home orientation lighting switched off.

Only had one person flash me in a year.

You're lucky...I have at least one every journey! I just give them a blast of main beam back though!

[Rollini]

I found i was getting flashed at least 2 times every journey i took in the dark when i first got my GTI which was quite annoying really, auto-leveling my a$$! took it to my local stealer and they wouldn't lower them under warranty so i just had to eat the £40 labour cost  mines an import so i thought they were just being pi$$y. i can't imagine them not doing it FOC if you took it to the dealer you brought yours from - isn't it something that should have been spotted/sorted in the VW acceptance tests?

[duffy78]

Or rather not! Just want to clarify a few points about the lights on my Ed30....


2).  Why don't my puddle lights work in the doors? Are they actually lights or just reflectors? I could go out and look closely but I can't be arsed   In my Mk 4 again I had puddle lights but they don't seem to be working on the Ed30.

On this question, we have 'luxury pack 1' (Stupid name), and it includes the 'area lighting', which basically is a light under the wing mirrors that illuminates the road by the doors. It's rather obvious, especially on white cars as it lights up the side of the car too, so it sounds like yours isn't working or you didn't get the option!

I don't have the luxury pack, therefore no lights under the wing mirrors.  The lights I'm on about are in the doors.  On my old car they were red and situated in the bottom right hand corner of the front doors.  They lit up whenever the doors were opened.  It looks like this car has them but they don't light up.  Unless they are just reflectors as previously mentioned.  I must make the effort to remember to look when I go out later!

I have puddle lights too and mine beeps if I leave the lights on (apart from Auto mode obviously).

I would have it back to the dealers to get looked at.

Hmmm, that's interesting.  Do they illuminate every time you open the doors?  Interesting about the lights-on buzzer too....I wonder how I get it turned on?

on the highline can you not switch this function on/off there from poor memory?

I've looked and can't see it anywhere in the menu.  I've also looked in the manual and can't find anything in there either.  The only thing that seemed relevant in the manual is that it says the car won't have a lights-on buzzer if it has orientation lighting (coming home/leaving home function) which our cars have, but that doesn't explain why Makaveli has a buzzer! I also have the coming home/leaving home orientation lighting switched off.

Only had one person flash me in a year.

You're lucky...I have at least one every journey! I just give them a blast of main beam back though!

just checked and mine has the buzzers,  the coming home / leaving lights only work when the auto light is activated i think

[MikeGTI]

I found i was getting flashed at least 2 times every journey i took in the dark when i first got my GTI which was quite annoying really, auto-leveling my a$$! took it to my local stealer and they wouldn't lower them under warranty so i just had to eat the £40 labour cost  mines an import so i thought they were just being pi$$y. i can't imagine them not doing it FOC if you took it to the dealer you brought yours from - isn't it something that should have been spotted/sorted in the VW acceptance tests?

You were seriously ripped off there, I watched a mechanic raise the xenons a nudge on my old audi as they were too low and its a 30 second job. Theres a hole for an Allen Key sitting on top of the headlight you turn one way for up the other for down. I'd go back and complain - offer to pay 1/60th of their hourly labour rate.

[Golfgirl]

Well just an update...

The puddle lights in the doors I think are reflectors and not lights which will explain why I can't get them to work.

I actually had a lights-on bong the other day for the first time but it only seems to work when I leave the side lights on.  If I leave the dipped lights on then they just get turrned off.

Nobody seems to have flashed me this week so my xenons seems to be behaving at the moment!

[Cass]

Well just an update...

The puddle lights in the doors I think are reflectors and not lights which will explain why I can't get them to work.

I actually had a lights-on bong the other day for the first time but it only seems to work when I leave the side lights on.  If I leave the dipped lights on then they just get turrned off.

Nobody seems to have flashed me this week so my xenons seems to be behaving at the moment!

Drama Queen then............

Cass