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Offline alan32baker

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Re: VCDS help needed
« Reply #10 on: 21 October 2014, 12:04 »
Brilliant thanks very much I don't suppose you know what the re coding of the rear camera is do you?

Offline dubber36

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Re: VCDS help needed
« Reply #11 on: 21 October 2014, 12:32 »
Probably activating it when it's been retro-fitted.
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Offline dave7268

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Re: VCDS help needed
« Reply #12 on: 25 October 2014, 16:40 »
Are you sure they need recoding? I thought that all the coding that was done when fitting LED's, turned off the bulb monitoring. If you simply re-fit your original lights, I'm pretty sure that they will work, but won't tell you if a bulb is blown.

Well, finally got the chance to swop out my LED and refit the factory standards. All lights are working with the exception of the inner rear lights (both left and right). Initially they work but after 10 seconds they go out and I get bulb out warning light on dash and message in screen display saying to check left and right rear lights.

Damn!!! So, recoding is needed but car is going on wednesday as dealer has offered to drop of new car and collect old one so not giving me time to get vcds re-coding done.

Now wondering if dealer will take the car and recode the lights themselves??
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Offline dubber36

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Re: VCDS help needed
« Reply #13 on: 25 October 2014, 16:58 »

Now wondering if dealer will take the car and recode the lights themselves??

Of course they will.
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Offline dave7268

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Re: VCDS help needed
« Reply #14 on: 25 October 2014, 17:29 »

Now wondering if dealer will take the car and recode the lights themselves??

Of course they will.

Sweet, that will solve that problem  :tongue:
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Offline Exonian

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Re: VCDS help needed
« Reply #15 on: 25 October 2014, 18:43 »
Late to the party here but all the dealer will have to do is set everything back to factory standard for your chassis.

When my first mk6 GTI went back in p/x I took the LED tails off but couldn't remember the VCDS settings, thankfully the normal bulbs worked ok still but the lights other than brake lights were just a tiny bit dimmer than they were before.
So off the car went and it's probably still running around now with mildly dim rear lights! Not to mention a 'switched out' REVO map…  :evil:
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Offline dave7268

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Re: VCDS help needed
« Reply #16 on: 25 October 2014, 19:34 »
LOL, just been outside in the dark to look at the tail lights and mine are definitely dimmer than what they should be. Brake lights are fine and the car is going to be collected in the morning time so they shouldn't have any problems.

I'll email the dealer on the day it's collected and say, "By the way...."  :smiley:

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Offline Exonian

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Re: VCDS help needed
« Reply #17 on: 25 October 2014, 19:39 »
You won't regret the replacement car!  :evil:

(unless you look at the PCP and lease costs of an R!!!!)

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Offline dave7268

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Re: VCDS help needed
« Reply #18 on: 25 October 2014, 20:07 »
Yeah, was seriously considering the R and after many, many hours of deliberation I decided on the GTI as I believe they are going to be the rarer car out there.

The R from the rear looks great, love those quad exhausts but it is very understated from the front, looks too much like a plain golf and most importantly where I live it would probably be gone in 60 seconds!!!  :grin:
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