Strange Mud
Autocross Champion
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that^^^ it does help prevent running w/o lights or with parking lights only.
It actually makes sense! The reason they have it like that is so that you don't accidentally leave your headlights off. Every car SHOULD be like this. They make it so that when the lowbeams are off/DRLs are on, which would imply that it's daytime, the gauge cluster isn't backlit (because you don't need it to be backlit during the day). When the sun goes down, you're forced to notice your headlights aren't on because you can't see how fast you're going, so you put the headlights on.
I think it makes a lot of sense, and that it should be legally required of all cars. I see other people with their headlights off all the time because A) they've got bright LED DRLs that suffice at night, and B) because their instrument clusters are still backlit, so they don't realize it.
that^^^ it does help prevent running w/o lights or with parking lights only.
Actually the instrument cluster has a light sensor and it dims the light as the sun goes down. This is to make you turn on the low beams as you people said.
Well, how many times to do you go reverse to drive? Usually when first leaving home...
I notice it happens if I am quick to let me foot off the brake. Never happens if I am patient and wait 1 or 2 seconds for 1st to engage.
I did the VCDS tweak to light up my dash when parking lights are on. If it's 4PM when I am leaving work and I know I'll be home before dusk, I just turn those on. I don't have auto lights. If I did, I would be frustrated that my headlights and dash were not tied to the same sensor.
Can this be done using OBD11?
I came from the Honda world as well. You'll get used to it as I did
I came from a Honda (Civic Si) and I eventually got used to it. Then I bought my wife a Honda and now I'm back to having to mentally think about it before I do it -- because GOD FORBID I run the wipers on my car the morning after I wash it and smear the fine layer of nuclear fall out from the night before.The wiper stalk, but only because it works opposite the way that almost every other car I've ever owned (mostly Honda) did. You'd think by now that all the major car companies and their suppliers could all get together and agree on some standards for basic stuff like this.
I'm going to post this here and hope that someone can tell me I'm doing something wrong.... Sometimes when I turn the HVAC system on it'll turn on A/C and sometimes it won't. I can't figure out a pattern. Regardless of if I already have my HVAC set to high heat, defrost or not defrost, recirculate or pull in fresh air, the system will never consistently do 1 thing or the other when I actually turn the system on (meaning turning the fan from 0 to 1).
Yes, I just said VCDS but I did it with OBD11.
1. Select "Dash Board" control module (I think Instruments on OBD11?)
2. Select "Adaptation"
3. Search for "Illumination_algorithm" and select "Scale_switching_algorithm"
4. Change existing setting, "parking_light" to "lds"
5. If your mk7 is pre MY16, enter 20103. If the vehicle is MY16, or later, enter 25327
I came from a Honda (Civic Si) and I eventually got used to it. Then I bought my wife a Honda and now I'm back to having to mentally think about it before I do it -- because GOD FORBID I run the wipers on my car the morning after I wash it and smear the fine layer of nuclear fall out from the night before.
I'm going to post this here and hope that someone can tell me I'm doing something wrong.... Sometimes when I turn the HVAC system on it'll turn on A/C and sometimes it won't. I can't figure out a pattern. Regardless of if I already have my HVAC set to high heat, defrost or not defrost, recirculate or pull in fresh air, the system will never consistently do 1 thing or the other when I actually turn the system on (meaning turning the fan from 0 to 1).