A guide to enable EU specific features for AU Spec Tiguans

[latearrival]

It is a term I saw written somewhere or I think I did, nothing more than that and if it is incorrect we can agree to drop it altogether.

Sorry Ozsko, my fault. I thought in an earlier post you meant that you'd seen 'Active Lane Guidane' on a screen in your car.


I feel I've got a bit of clarity now. At least for an hour or two


With DAP we have Lane Assist (takes corrective action if the car begins to drift over one lane marking, and can even follow one lane marking) but without the Adaptive Lane Guidance extension (needed to maintain position within two lane markings).


Traffic Jam Assist needs both ALG and ACC. So if we can enable ALG with VCDS or OBDEleven, we may be able to enable TJA too. Fingers crossed.

[shanelord]

Sorry Ozsko, my fault. I thought in an earlier post you meant that you'd seen 'Active Lane Guidane' on a screen in your car.


I feel I've got a bit of clarity now. At least for an hour or two


With DAP we have Lane Assist (takes corrective action if the car begins to drift over one lane marking, and can even follow one lane marking) but without the Adaptive Lane Guidance extension (needed to maintain position within two lane markings).


Traffic Jam Assist needs both ALG and ACC. So if we can enable ALG with VCDS or OBDEleven, we may be able to enable TJA too. Fingers crossed.

That's what I'm hoping!


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[Ozsko]

This is taken from the owners manual page 227 first parargraph:

Traffic jam assist can be switched on or off together with adaptive lane guidance (my italics) -> page 224 by pressing the menu button and the vehicle settings buttons on the infortainment systems -> page 76

So we wander over to page 224 and this is what it says:

Using a camera in the windscreen, the lane keeping system detects lane markings on the road. If the vehicle gets too close to a detected lane marking, the system warns the driver by taking corrective steering action (VW's Italics) and helps keep the vehicle in lane. The corrective steering action may be overridden by the driver at any time.

When the adaptive lane guidance (my itallics) is active -> page 226, the lane keeping system does not just provide assistance when the vehicle is at risk of leaving the lane. If the system detects both lane markings to the left and right of the vehicle the function provides permanent assistance while the vehicle is in motion.

The system adopts the preferred position within the lane in which the vehicle is travelling. For example, if the vehicle is being driven slightly off centre in the lane, the system will learn to adopt the new position within a short period of time.

No steering intervention will occur if the turn signal is switched on as the lane keeping system will assume that the lane change is deliberate.

Lane Change System (side assist plus) - ** To clarify, this is what we call blind spot monitoring**

If the vehicle is equipped with a lane change system (side assist) -> page 229 and the system is activated , the driver is warned by corrective steering intervention when changing lanes during a possible critical situation (information level, warning level). This also occurs when the turn signal is activated in the corresponding direction. If the steering intervention is overridden by the driver, the steering wheel vibrates to give an additional warning.


Lane Change System Page 229

The lane change system uses radar sensors to monitor the area behind the vehicle -> page 39. The system measures the distance and the difference in speed to other vehicles....blah blah, it goes on to describe what we call blind spot monitoring


So there you have it straight from the horses mouth.

Edit above to clarify what VW calls side assist plus. This stuff is bloody confusing TBH, what with local terms, VW not being consistant with terms and the way the book has been written

[Delewin]

Ha. And I thought activating these mods were going to be easy. The hard part so far is trying to work out just what we have to start with and then what are our options.

The only thing I am totally clear on is the DAP is an absolute must to even start to take advantage of some of the possibly available add ons.

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[theitchy]

I hope the experts in this forum who are currently activating their cars can at least send some demos from really basic tricks and leave guidance for long coding or complex tasks for beginner like me to learn how to hack in the car please ??????

[latearrival]

The hard part so far is trying to work out just what we have to start with

Agreed! I'm beginning to doubt anyone really knows exactly what their Tig can and can't do. Even the spec sheets don't go far enough - e.g. it just says "Lane Assist" but not whether or not that includes ALG; or "Side Assist" but not whether or not that includes Rear Traffic Alert or "Side Assist Plus.

Now, can anyone tell me how to use OBDeleven to turn on that dormant massage function...

[Delewin]

No but I can show you how you can have a hot seat.

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[DV52]

hmm........ what is "that dormant massage function."?

[latearrival]

hmm........ what is "that dormant massage function."?

An example of a feature that's in the Australian manual but not actually available. Absent rather than dormant, I assume (was joking/fantasizing about being able to enable it with VCDS/OBDeleven)

[Ozsko]

There is no Australian manual from what I can see, it is universal manual and the owner has to figure out what he or she has got in each country.