rentaspace's 2013 103TDI progress thread

[Aztech]

How'd you find the paddles? I haven't worried about it in the tiguan as I have them in my octavia rs and find it slower than using the gear change to engage manual mode, also when i finish and want to go back to auto with the paddles I find myself flipping the gear shift left and then right to go back into D mode.

[ian]

you have to hold the up shift till the D shows on the cluster

[Aztech]

ah cool I didnt know that, will try it out when i get it back of the mrs. I swear its slower to drop back initially when I drop back a gear, always feels laggy with the paddles, but will have another play.

[rentaspace]

The photo you sent earlier of the side steps, do you have a link for those?

[ian]

i didnt buy them from here but thats my car in the picture , i went there to buy some thing else ,when i was leaving the owner asked me about thge side steps ,i only found out latter had had taken pictures of my car as an advertisment for his own business

VW TIGUAN 2010- 2016 KL STYLE SIDE STEPS/S MORE STYLE & FITTING AVAILABLE | eBay

[rentaspace]

Have they held up well over time? No rust or anything?

[ian]

Not as yet i just give them a polish with a wax polish

[rentaspace]

So I attempted to install the LED kit like I have on various other cars over the years, go to the final LED; glovebox. Inserted it and put power to car, instant click and all interior lights gone. Took LED out and put regular globs back, no lights. Only working interior light is the boot now (also LED). Checked all fuse and nothing blown, next stop is to get it on a code reader at my mates shop and hopefully reset any codes. Anyone else got any suggestions for what may be causing the issue?

[rentaspace]

Put the car onto an OBD/Bluetooth reader the other day and there were no codes shown. Reset it just in case but interior lights still a no-go.
Next step is to use a proper OBD reader and if that fails the VW one.
Hopefully I haven't damaged everything lol.

[rentaspace]

So got the car onto an OBD reader and looks like there is a short somewhere in the system. I have a feeling that I have damaged the glovebox light when removing the outer metal housing. When the code is reset (With or without the glovebox light in) the code does not go.
Time to try and source where the open circuit is :L

Edit: The OBD reader says 'Check fuses' which has already been done and none are blown.