Where is the check engine light on the Dash?

[wai]

Who or what is Penny?

Sorry, it is a running joke on The Big Bang Theory where Penny has a Golf and the Check Engine light is almost permanently lit and she says she really must stick something over it.

[VW VR6]

Look like your small bulb is gone:

[graeme86]

Look like your small bulb is gone:

That may depend on the ECU programming.

For example: All Euro and US spec MkIV R32's have the light come on when you first start the car as a check.

And yet on all the Australian ones the light does NOT come on at all when you first start car.

The Australian cars have a different ECU program in them.

Our cars are only EU2 spec emissions, but the Euro ones were EU4 spec.

Kind of ironic we got a "dirtier" engine.

The light is an LED, so it would be extremely unlikely to be faulty.

Someone may have put some tape under the symbol to hide a light though - you would have to dismantle the cluster face to check that though.

If you can post up the engine code then someone else on here with the same engine ECU could confirm whether it does actually light up on ignition in their car.

[GTIMK4]

I have a 99.5 GTI and i have never seen the check engine light. I've read the owners manual, and it doesnt say anything about a CEL in it. I can only assume that perhaps this year model does not have one. Even doing a full instrument check test with VAG VCDS did not make one light up.
Cheers

[graeme86]

Same with my R32 - does not show up in the instrument test either.