Silver:

Are you trying to explain progress to George again? :p :p

Hey, fellas...

Differences in the VAG systems......(Shown in the first three videos)

http://www.myturbodi...mergency-vw.htm

...............shows the coding too ;)

I'm looking forward to discovering a setting in VCDS that allows me to, at the press of a button, illuminate each and every external light bulb at once!

Get yerself a Mercedes fire engine; they have a check system button that does this.

Differences in the VAG systems......(Shown in the first three videos)

http://www.myturbodi...mergency-vw.htm

...............shows the coding too ;)

Liking the first one with everything going off. You're not gonna miss THAT in front of you!!

I'm looking forward to discovering a setting in VCDS that allows me to, at the press of a button, illuminate each and every external light bulb at once!

Our trucks at work do this,makes it so easy for one person to check all the lights!

Liking the first one with everything going off. You're not gonna miss THAT in front of you!!

Oh I don't know, am sure there's one among us who would complain that it's too bright or distracting But then I daresay they said the same when the high-level brake-lights started out too.

Have seen these activated several times on the road over the last couple of years, I have found them very effective. The argument that the irrational completely miss is that that when they are activated it's because *I* am braking much heavier than normal so *you* should be aware that this is not a normal braking situation.

Several solutions have been proposed down the years (lights getting brighter the further the brake pedal is traveling etc). My personal favourite is a "brake bar" the has multiple LEDs in it: the harder you are braking, the more LEDS come on.

Also the suggestion of "aircraft style" emergency lights has been suggested too. So in the event of an accident, all of the lights on the car would be activated in a non-normal pattern to attract attention to the incident in the hope that people would see it, miss it and either help or call for help. Activating the hazard lights after heavy braking goes some way to this.

Is this not a standard feature on all new VAG models now? My MY13 VRS had it activated from the factory (I know OP has Pre-FL) and the feature is referred to in the manual:

If the brakes are applied in full and the control unit for the braking system considers

the situation to be dangerous for the following traffic, the brake light

flashes automatically. After the speed was reduced below around 10 km/h or the

vehicle was stopped, the brake light stops flashing and the hazard warning light

system switches on. The hazard warning light system is switched off automatically

after accelerating or driving off again.

I suspect, like a lot of these things, because Skoda are the "poor" end of VAG, there are/were features in the ECU that were enabled by default on other models, but not on Skodas (e.g. these brake lights, cornering lights, rain-close etc etc) I very much doubt the VAG took the assistance of such software as VCDS when they were designing the ECU. (IIRC MKII Octavia has the same ECU etc as MK V Golf)

Probably find that emergency brake lights have been standard on Audi, optional on VW, and non-optional on Skoda and Seat, for some time.

If the brakes are applied in full and the control unit for the braking system considers

the situation to be dangerous for the following traffic, the brake light

flashes automatically. After the speed was reduced below around 10 km/h or the

vehicle was stopped, the brake light stops flashing and the hazard warning light

system switches on. The hazard warning light system is switched off automatically

after accelerating or driving off again.

I think there's a minimum activation speed too, like a few of the other features. Probably not adjustable though.

So are you implying that this is probably one of those things that's actually available on a skoda, it's just that you have to dig around in the basement a bit to turn it on, unlike the more expensive marques?

Must say George sounds like a barrel of laughs to go on a night out with!!