Author Topic: Instrument Lights inoperative in 'Auto Light Mode' in daylight. Please help!  (Read 9157 times)

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Re: Dashboard lights keep going on and and off at will!
« Reply #10 on: 01 April 2010, 19:48 »
Mine's an early build so may be a bit different then. Not driven the car for about a month so can't really remember!
I'm sure my dials are lit all the time, maybe it's just the needles. I tend to drive on sidelights much of the time anyway as the DRLs look horrible.
I agree about the DRLs,  quite easy to switch them off.

You might 'agree' about the DRLs, but you have been of no help and unnecessarily sarcastic.
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Re: Dashboard lights keep going on and and off at will!
« Reply #11 on: 01 April 2010, 19:48 »
Mine's an early build so may be a bit different then. Not driven the car for about a month so can't really remember!
I'm sure my dials are lit all the time, maybe it's just the needles. I tend to drive on sidelights much of the time anyway as the DRLs look horrible.

With the side lights on the dials and radio are lit. Fine.
It is only in Auto mode that this has started happening!.
Quite normal - German Engineering. The lighting system is supposed to work like that.
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Re: Dashboard lights keep going on and and off at will!
« Reply #12 on: 01 April 2010, 19:51 »
Quite normal - German Engineering. The lighting system is supposed to work like that.

No wonder they lost the war. :smug:
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Re: Dashboard lights keep going on and and off at will!
« Reply #13 on: 01 April 2010, 19:55 »
Mine's an early build so may be a bit different then. Not driven the car for about a month so can't really remember!
I'm sure my dials are lit all the time, maybe it's just the needles. I tend to drive on sidelights much of the time anyway as the DRLs look horrible.
With the side lights on the dials and radio are lit. Fine.
It is only in Auto mode that this has started happening!.
Quite normal - German Engineering. The lighting system is supposed to work like that.

No wonder they lost the war.

I shouldn't laugh...........but I can't help it!  :grin:

Wonder if Tiger tanks had their paint jobs finished properly? Maybe only up to the mk6 version!

Sounds like you just have an over sensitive light sensor (a female light sensor?)
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Re: Dashboard lights keep going on and and off at will!
« Reply #14 on: 01 April 2010, 19:55 »
I agree about the DRLs,  quite easy to switch them off.
Unless they are set like mine and so the way you normaly switch them off does not work.
I must agree with you about the cost cutting with the paintwork. It seems, that certain colours show this more than others. It was a bit shocking when I saw my boot floor was a light red, no pink, in colour. I am also disappointed and annoyed. It seems there is nothing we can do as VW (Vicious Wagen) have got us over a barrel to put it mildly.
At least yours is pink mine does not even have a hint of blue. Its light gray.
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Re: Dashboard lights keep going on and and off at will!
« Reply #15 on: 01 April 2010, 19:56 »
This is all I need for Easter. :rolleyes:
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Re: Dashboard lights keep going on and and off at will!
« Reply #16 on: 01 April 2010, 20:00 »
Mine's an early build so may be a bit different then. Not driven the car for about a month so can't really remember!
I'm sure my dials are lit all the time, maybe it's just the needles. I tend to drive on sidelights much of the time anyway as the DRLs look horrible.
I agree about the DRLs,  quite easy to switch them off.

You might 'agree' about the DRLs, but you have been of no help and unnecessarily sarcastic.
Amy

You've obviously forgotten about our earlier spat.
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Re: Dashboard lights keep going on and and off at will!
« Reply #17 on: 01 April 2010, 20:00 »
I agree about the DRLs,  quite easy to switch them off.
Unless they are set like mine and so the way you normaly switch them off does not work.
I must agree with you about the cost cutting with the paintwork. It seems, that certain colours show this more than others. It was a bit shocking when I saw my boot floor was a light red, no pink, in colour. I am also disappointed and annoyed. It seems there is nothing we can do as VW (Vicious Wagen) have got us over a barrel to put it mildly.
At least yours is pink mine does not even have a hint of blue. Its light gray.

A friend of mine p!ssed himself when he saw the boot floor.
I was not amused. :angry:
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Re: Dashboard lights keep going on and and off at will!
« Reply #18 on: 01 April 2010, 20:03 »
I agree about the DRLs,  quite easy to switch them off.
Unless they are set like mine and so the way you normaly switch them off does not work.
I must agree with you about the cost cutting with the paintwork. It seems, that certain colours show this more than others. It was a bit shocking when I saw my boot floor was a light red, no pink, in colour. I am also disappointed and annoyed. It seems there is nothing we can do as VW (Vicious Wagen) have got us over a barrel to put it mildly.
At least yours is pink mine does not even have a hint of blue. Its light gray.

A friend of mine p!ssed himself when he saw the boot floor.
I was not amused. :angry:
I wouldn't have been amused standing next to a grown man with wet trousers either. Hope you didn't let him sit in the car afterwards?
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Re: Dashboard lights keep going on and and off at will!
« Reply #19 on: 01 April 2010, 20:03 »
Am1w,
I know that one. It was a work mate who then went round and pointed out the door jam/rear of the wings today that are also not painted that i had missed.
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