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For those of you who don't know what the parking light is:
"Enables the use of the city light and outer parking brake light on Left or Right side. This feature consumes little energy and is crucial if your parked in a dark alley or on a dark curb. This is a feature found on many cars in Europe due to the narrow and dark streets. Helps make the car more visible at night."
When I first got my GTI I was crazy to enable this feature because VWOA had removed it off the 2006 MY cars. I heard the 2005.5 Jettas did have this feature active. After months of wondering why the code would not take on my GTI for the parking lights to work, I decided to approach this from another angle.
I remember when I had my passat I had recoded the tacho/cluster to UK spec (code #4) from the original US spec (code#2) to get rid of the anoying BEEEEEEEP the tacho chimes when you have the car on with the door open. After remembering that there were different country codes for the car spedo, I thought I would give it a shot... Hey I had nothing to loose and a nice feature to gain
I went ahead and
Clicked on 17-Instruments
Recode - 07
note your original coding.
Hover over the code with the mouse pointer, and it will show a pop-up balloon with information about the various digits of the code.
# One of the digits is for the country configuration (for the instrument cluster only, it doesn't affect any other settings in Comfort/Central Electronics/any other module). It's originally set at '2' (USA). You will change it to '4' (UK/Britain).
Then enter the code and set!!
After you do this, go back to 09-Central Electronics then hit where you can change the LONG CODE. Look for the bite that has something labled
"FRONT REAR PARKING LIGHTS ACTIVE (US/CANADA)"
Check the box for that section then transfer the code...
NOW YOUR ALL DONE! TEST the mod.
My DIY sucks cause im working from pure memory...If somethings wrong don't kill me!
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Modified by quailallstar at 11:28 PM 7-23-2006
Modified by BRM10984 at 10:41 AM 7-25-2006
"Enables the use of the city light and outer parking brake light on Left or Right side. This feature consumes little energy and is crucial if your parked in a dark alley or on a dark curb. This is a feature found on many cars in Europe due to the narrow and dark streets. Helps make the car more visible at night."
When I first got my GTI I was crazy to enable this feature because VWOA had removed it off the 2006 MY cars. I heard the 2005.5 Jettas did have this feature active. After months of wondering why the code would not take on my GTI for the parking lights to work, I decided to approach this from another angle.
I remember when I had my passat I had recoded the tacho/cluster to UK spec (code #4) from the original US spec (code#2) to get rid of the anoying BEEEEEEEP the tacho chimes when you have the car on with the door open. After remembering that there were different country codes for the car spedo, I thought I would give it a shot... Hey I had nothing to loose and a nice feature to gain
I went ahead and
Clicked on 17-Instruments
Recode - 07
note your original coding.
Hover over the code with the mouse pointer, and it will show a pop-up balloon with information about the various digits of the code.
# One of the digits is for the country configuration (for the instrument cluster only, it doesn't affect any other settings in Comfort/Central Electronics/any other module). It's originally set at '2' (USA). You will change it to '4' (UK/Britain).
Then enter the code and set!!
After you do this, go back to 09-Central Electronics then hit where you can change the LONG CODE. Look for the bite that has something labled
"FRONT REAR PARKING LIGHTS ACTIVE (US/CANADA)"
Check the box for that section then transfer the code...
NOW YOUR ALL DONE! TEST the mod.
My DIY sucks cause im working from pure memory...If somethings wrong don't kill me!
Modified by quailallstar at 11:28 PM 7-23-2006
Modified by BRM10984 at 10:41 AM 7-25-2006
