Since you have deactivated the S/S with the voltage parameter you have to live with the message ”High Consumption”. That’s normal. Have done it on our Golf 7:s 3 years ago. Same message.
/Peter
Peter: Very true - but the "High Consumption" message comes up regardless of whether the Temperature method, or the Voltage method is used to disable Start Stop facility.
Wild pete's question is interesting because it asks whether regeneration (which VW calls "Recuperation") is necessarily tied to SS - I don't know the answer, but I am aware that there are separate coding switches in the CAN gateway to tell it that SS and regeneration are installed in the car.
For example, in the CAN Gateway module @ address hex19:
Byte 3, Bits 2-3 control "Start/Stop with Recuperation installed PR-7L6"
Byte 4, Bit 1 controls "Recuperation installed PR-7L6"
Byte 4, Bit 3 controls "Deep cycling of Recuperation active PR-7L6"
This can imply that whilst SS needs Recuperation to operate, the reverse isn't necessarily true.
The Voltage method for disabling SS works by fooling SS into believing that there is insufficient battery voltage to restart the engine if it is stopped. Of itself, this same message shouldn't stop Recuperation because this is exactly the battery condition that Recuperation is meant to address - I think
As I said, I don't know the answer (however, my hunch is that the two functions are linked, but separate), but I'm interested if anyone who has implemented either of these tweaks finds-out (I'm using my Auto SS kill switch to disable SS instead of the tweak)
Don
