Footwell Lighting

[MaccaTSI]

That's good to know. Guess I'll have to get a hold of vagcom if I want to enable mine permanantly.

I can adjust the brightness of mine and turn them off/on via MFD, but turning them on only means that they come on when the doors are opened

[Brian]

Personally, I prefer mine OFF, which is what I've got, so I'm very satisfied

[JohnA]

I can confirm this - red bulbs are much nicer and feels as part of the ambent lighting.
Installed on mine just the other day and looks great. I only used normal red bulbs (NOT LED) as I didn't want this light to be ovepowering (even at the lowest setting), plus most LED are directional so the light will feel as a torch.

good news, i'll go get some red bulbs then
Thanks

[Redman]

I have turned mine off while driving and they only come on when I unlock the car or open the doors

[MIRSAD]

good news, i'll go get some red bulbs then
Thanks

Just be careful not to light up (in red) windows of Your GTI ... Brothels in Germany have red lighted windows.

[Corey_R]

I have turned mine off while driving and they only come on when I unlock the car or open the doors

Did you do this with VCDS or with the MFD?

[GTICam]

Did you do this with VCDS or with the MFD?

Through the MFD. If you select footwell lights to "OFF" they are off when the headlights are on, but work with the interior lights when a door is opened.

Cheers,
Cam.

[Foos]

it was from the footwell Lights.

I replaced the standard globe with an LED from Boldsport 2 weeks ago. Only the 1 as I wanted to see how hard it was, and I was waiting for some red-ones to arrive from Ebay.

There was a nasty acrid burny smell in the car for a few days, but it died down a little - couldn't work out where.

Red ebay ones arrived, so went to put them in and found this:


(the brown is vertically UP from the light - i.e its residue from burning / gas)
2 weeks,..


Perhaps summer and LEDS (and decently priced ones too!) - aren't the best idea.

---------- Post added at 02:36 PM ---------- Previous post was at 02:32 PM ----------

p.s It was STILL WORKING when I took it out.

[Reedy]

I have a tricky one here so lets see how we do. I noticed a few weeks ago when i started to unlock my Golf GTI 6 2010 that the leaving home lights did not turn on, the footwell lights did not come on, the interier lights would come on for a few seconds then go out then come staight back on again and the car would beep at me until i turned the ignition. The beep is very similar to the need fuel beep but much softer and it seems to come through the speakers.

Take note this could be important, these issues only happen when i lock the car by pushing the button once (dead lock), and leave it for a while. If i lock the car by pushing the key fob twice (no dead locks) the car functions normally, as in everything turns on that should turn on and there is no stange beep. Please note that this beep is different from all other beeps that the car makes.

Good luck.

I should mention that i have red led lights in the footwell but it seems strange that it doesnt happen all the time, it only happens when i lock it a certain way and it has to be left for a while.

[AdamD]

Sounds like a strange one to me. If you can reliably reproduce it, I'd be inclined to take it to your dealer to run a fault scan.