Emergency brake lights????

[Ashley185]

I recently bought VCDS due to a brake light issue.

 

im very new so please type slowly.

 

im trying to activate emergency flashing brake lights and signal lights activated in emergency braking situations.

 

ive been on central electric (09)

long cosing helper

byte 16.....

 

nothing relating to it, just aux heater something or other

 

does that mean I can’t do it or I have to to go around it a different way?

 

mk3 Octavia vRS my15

[mk4gtiturbo]

I'm pretty sure it already has it, but I'm sure someone else can confirm.

[Ashley185]

It’s would show as a selection in the though wouldn’t it??

 

also, looked through the control map and there’s no blinken in the brake  channels

[Ootohere]

?

What was the brake light issue you were having, 

& are you totally sure that in an emergency braking situation that the flashing brake lights do not function?

[langers2k]

It sounds like the OP is following a guide for an older PQ35 based car which isn't relevant to their MQB Octavia. I'd  expect emergency braking flash etc to just work...

 

@Offski - The brake light issue they had was caused by a badly wired towbar relay kit. It was causing a fog light to come on with the brakes :/

[Ashley185]

Brakes are all fine now.

 

ive not physically checked my brake lights to see if they flash but it would show in long coding or the channel map on VCDS wouldn’t it?

[Ootohere]

So why not just have someone stand in a safe place and you do an emergency stop and they can tell you what you have.

'Simply Clever' & KISS.

[Ashley185]

Everyone’s at work when I’m able to do it and have my son through most days.

 

just making the odd changes to my car now I have the software..just expected to see it as an option

[langers2k]

1 minute ago, Ashley185 said:

just expected to see it as an option

 

Only if it's something that Skoda/VW think should be configurable and rosstech have figured out which byte/bit/adaption channel is linked to it

 

I don't think I've ever seen anyone mentioning changing it on a MQB platform car, nor does a quick google search show any interesting results. It's quite possible it's no longer configurable and is permanently enabled in the BCM software.

[Ashley185]

Ok thank you....suppose I’d best wait and just check it out myself.

 

i assumes that the channel map was the be all and end all and everything that the car did was on these maps...

 

im here to be schooled mate...thanks for the lesson And thank you for your help

[SWBoy]

17 minutes ago, langers2k said:

 

Only if it's something that Skoda/VW think should be configurable and rosstech have figured out which byte/bit/adaption channel is linked to it

 

I don't think I've ever seen anyone mentioning changing it on a MQB platform car, nor does a quick google search show any interesting results. It's quite possible it's no longer configurable and is permanently enabled in the BCM software.

On a pre-FL Octavia III this is the setting for emergency brake lights:

 

Coding, byte 16, enable bits 1 & 2

 

Worked on my 2015 model.

[Ashley185]

I don’t have those option so maybe there no longer an option as langer2k said... it may no longer be an option

[langers2k]

Ashley looks to have a 5Q0 937 084 AJ (H18 SW:0134) BCM, is yours the same SWBoy?

 

[SWBoy]

5 hours ago, langers2k said:

Ashley looks to have a 5Q0 937 084 AJ (H18 SW:0134) BCM, is yours the same SWBoy?

Yes, same part number with HW18 but mine has SW 0137

[Costel]

Hello! I can not find 16 bytes where the emergency brake should be. Can someone help me. Possibly a module

[EdHru]

Carista has this option.

[Costel]

2 minutes ago, EdHru said:

Carista has this option.

Carista? I do not understand...

[EdHru]

1 minute ago, Costel said:

Carista? I do not understand...

 

Carista is a module, kind like VCDS, not as detailed but similar. If you dont have access to VCDS like me, i got one of these to do some tweaks, cornering lights, auto lock, rear DLRs etc.

 

 https://www.amazon.co.uk/Carista-Bluetooth-OBD2-Adapter-App/dp/B00YVHGTBM/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1547213741&sr=8-1&keywords=carista

[Costel]

7 minutes ago, EdHru said:

 

Carista is a module, kind like VCDS, not as detailed but similar. If you dont have access to VCDS like me, i got one of these to do some tweaks, cornering lights, auto lock, rear DLRs etc.

 

 https://www.amazon.co.uk/Carista-Bluetooth-OBD2-Adapter-App/dp/B00YVHGTBM/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1547213741&sr=8-1&keywords=carista

So I understand that the vcds will not work ... but from the module charisma will go?