KevinC
Autocross Champion
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- '19 Golf R, '21 M2c
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Disable Windshield Wiper Alert?
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Hayden
Love/Hate Relationship
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- Vancouver, Canada
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- 2016 GTI
To your knowledge, yes. He is looking for somebody that knows a bit more than you!
IWMTom
Autocross Newbie
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It's not something you can change; it's hard coded into the firmware of the BCM, which sends the CANBUS signal to flash the alert. It's either on or it's off - there's no adaptation to change the frequency of the alerts.
The MQB platform isn't THAT customisable.
Gogo GTI
Go Kart Champion
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- Boulder, CO
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- 2017 GTI Sport
Did the coding under byte 14. Thanks IWMTom and StealthGTI. That did the trick!
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southpawboston
Drag Racing Champion
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LOL, am I the only one who appreciates having that alert? If I'm making a 250 mile trip during or after a snow storm I WANT to know when I'm low so I can pull over and refill before it runs out and my window gets smeared with sand and salt.
Gogo GTI
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- Boulder, CO
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- 2017 GTI Sport
Pfftt german engineering. You know what VW shouldve done like other car makers have been doing for decades... make the wiper fluid level visible on the reservoir. You can track the level of every fluid that goes into your car: gas, brake, radiator, transmission. All except wiper fluid. Who cares if Im low? I want to know how much I have left!
It sucks when filling the reservoir too. If you fill it up too quickly, you can accidentally make it overflow because all you can see is this little tube popping up.
Yes, I probably hate this thing more than I should.
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It sucks when filling the reservoir too. If you fill it up too quickly, you can accidentally make it overflow because all you can see is this little tube popping up.
Yes, I probably hate this thing more than I should.
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AdamSheikh
Autocross Champion
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- FLL
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- 15 GTI | 24 RS 3
It keeps dinging because the fluid is low but not completely empty. As you drive around, the remaining fluid is sloshing in the tank coming in and out of contact with the level sensor. VW doesn't intend for it to keep beeping at you - it's just the sensor detecting and then not detecting fluid over and over again.
Gogo GTI
Go Kart Champion
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- Boulder, CO
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- 2017 GTI Sport
I get that. Doesnt change the fact that its still very annoying despite VWs intentions. Its a minor design flaw.
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Glad this thread's here. Mine's been going off....pretty sure it's from Rain-X additive. I haven't used the orange Rain-X washer fluid, just the additive. New owner, 3k miles, wasn't aware of the Rain-X fluid sensor issue. Light first came on and I thought "that's strange, there's no way I've used a full tank of fluid already."
Went to add some and poured in maybe 1 cup of liquid before starting to see it in the tube. Then googled and found out about the Rain-X thing.
Went to add some and poured in maybe 1 cup of liquid before starting to see it in the tube. Then googled and found out about the Rain-X thing.
Including some info here in case someone else finds this thread and runs in to the same thing...
My Central Electrics in OBD11 only has long coding under the subsystems section, and none of them were a Byte 14.
I disabled my warning via Adaptations > HW_Verbau > Insufficient Washer Fluid, and setting it to not installed.
Credit goes to southpawboston's post here for pointing me in the right direction:
https://www.golfmk7.com/forums/showpost.php?p=692337&postcount=5
Gogo GTI
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- Boulder, CO
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- 2017 GTI Sport
What’s the year/model of your car?
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