Lack of horn without ignition??

[pologti18t]

The lack of multimedia controls when I stop the car annoys me as well - but you have shown a more important issue I guess. I sometimes turn the ignition back on, which turns the lights back on (I could manually turn the lights off, I know).

And what japanese car allows you to use the radio when the ignition is off?

Similar to cars not allowing the headlights to work when the ignition is off or the brake lights.

[Ryan_R]

Handy feature for some (more or less for passengers I'm guessing), not one I've needed as of yet.

I'm a bit of a James May when it comes to keeping the volume knob facing the right way up

[Danny]

We have had/have
FPV Fords
XR Fords
Astra Sri Turbo
Clio Renaultsport 182 cup
Honda Civic R
BMW X5

A wide range of vehicles from different ilks, and they all seem to toot the horn with key/fob out. Whoever said fords brake lights dont work when the key is out - correct.

Strange why VeeDub would omit this function... Id find that annoying tbh.

[Darren]

We have had/have
FPV Fords
XR Fords
Astra Sri Turbo
Clio Renaultsport 182 cup
Honda Civic R
BMW X5

A wide range of vehicles from different ilks, and they all seem to toot the horn with key/fob out. Whoever said fords brake lights dont work when the key is out - correct.

Strange why VeeDub would omit this function... Id find that annoying tbh.

Your right.....I never noticed it...

'No key - No horn' very frustrating. Especially if your parked and you slowly watch an idiot back into you, your'e helpless and it's slo-mo

[mikinoz]

My MK1 has the same feature - so did my 69 Kombi, so go figure.

[Ryan_R]

Received this today re. audio controls:

As for the steering wheel controls they are only able to work with the engine running due to the fact that electrical consumers need to be limited to preserve the battery life.

[AdamD]

Received this today re. audio controls:

That's hilarious. So the car can draw a ton of current for the radio (+ Dynaudio for me, draws quite a bit), and yet they've decided to deactivate the steering wheel controls when the coil's not on to presever battery life!

[Ryan_R]

That was exactly my mental response as well.

[logger]

hm, I can have a look around VCDS settings to see if anything in there that could be programmable to allow horn to work at all times....

While you at it, see if you can work out why sounding the horn on a VW kills the VCDS connection. Wierd. Ross Tech could not give me a reason when I asked them a while back.

[Ryan_R]

How about when you're picking someone up, say from school, a train station, a shopping center/mall, etc.

You don't have to yell at us just because it makes no sense to you. A horn is supposed to be a safety device, so you'd think it would always work - of course we all hope we don't need it.