Binnacle lighting - on or off?

[sleep envy]

Went through an underpass earlier today and noted how the backlit dials turned off about 5 secs of being in the dark (with the lights off)

anyone know how to leave them on permanently?

 

[MarcQuinlivan]

You can do a bit of trickery with VAG-COM.

you can have nothing lit, needles only, backlit only, all lit.

 

[h5djr]

I got my dealer to set mine as 'always on' before I collected my car.

 

[Twizzler]

Mine just has the needles lit. A total nonsense straight out of the factory....

 

[MarcQuinlivan]

If you go into "17 - Instruments" and then select "07 - Coding" the last digit controls the instrument lighting.

Mine has just needles lit (which I think is a 7). You can change the values from 0 to 9. I think 0-4 is for US and 5-9 EU.

The options are (I think) :
0/5 No Lighting
1/6 Back Lighting
2/7 Needles
3/8 Both
4/9 ?

 

[sleep envy]

You can do a bit of trickery with VAG-COM.

you can have nothing lit, needles only, backlit only, all lit.

what's VAG-COM??

 

[MarcQuinlivan]

A cable and some software that lets you do stuff to your car via the port under the steering wheel. see www.ross-tech.com for more info.

 

[Shades]

Went through an underpass earlier today and noted how the backlit dials turned off about 5 secs of being in the dark (with the lights off)

I thought there was something wrong with my instrument cluster! Although my does it when going under thick coverage of trees!

 

[treblesykes]

apparently it dims to remind you to put your lights on when it gets dark

 

[mitch78]

:thumbsup: