Ambient lighting in Doors - White to Red ?

[Sootchucker]

Might be a bit of a strange question, but anyone know if the LED's in the doors for the ambient lighting strip can be changed from White to Red via VCDS coding ? I'm guessing not and that's it's a different part (with maybe a filter in place), but I thought that as the Seat Leon has ambient lighting that can change from white to red depending on if Sport mode was selected, whether it's one of the many non mapped bits in VCDS ?

The reason I ask is not that I want the car to be pretending to be a GTI, but rather that I have red footwell lights and think it would tie in nicely, and I prefer red at night (it's more soothing that white).

[Exonian]

I've wondered the same thing for the same reasons!
I saw the Leon lighting before I had my Golf and it put the balloon up in my head but nobody seemed to know at the time.
Although I have a GTI and prefer the red I did initially consider a GTD and didn't like the white lighting as much as the red.

[JB GTI]

"The reason I ask is not that I want the car to be pretending to be a GTI, but rather that I have red footwell lights and think it would tie in nicely, and I prefer red at night (it's more soothing that white)."


I have changed my GTI footwell lights to Red LED's a while ago for the same reason. The original White ones didn't look right with the Red ambient lighting in the doors.
Mind you I Might have to get some Blue LED's soon !!

[cebbes30]

Ambient lighting in Doors is verry easy to change to red.

Only thing you need to do is reverse the cables, first i have done that because a dont want red, after reversing the light go white!!!

No coding!

[Sootchucker]

Interesting, could you explain a little more please ?

[KyleB]

There must be a software control too. My Mrs has the Leon FR. The amount lighting in that is red in sport and white in all other modes. However with VCDS you can tweak it so that it is always red.

[cebbes30]

i said it before i have install it in my car after reversing the 2 cables you get red ambient color.

no code try it!

[Sootchucker]

Yes but which cables please ?

[cebbes30]

Ambient lighting in Doors are led, so this has two connection pin 1 and pin 2.
So when you switch the kabel with pin 1 to pin 2 and pin 2 to pin 1 you will get red lights.

yust reverse

[GeoBog]

I sincerely doubt that this is possible unless the LEDs in the doors are multicolor LEDs.
By just reversing the 2 wires that power on the LEDs the only thing you will get is the LEDs to not light up. An LED is a luminescent diode with polarity, which means it needs a positive (+) and a negative (- or GND) wire to power it up. It doesn't work the other way around.

In case of multicolor LEDs it is possible to change their color by applying different voltage on the positive wire.
If the LEDS in the doors are multicolor, then probably there is a way to variate the voltage from VCDS which translates into changing the color of the door ambient lights.