I am new to VAG-COM. What is the difference between Coding and Adaptation? When would you use one instead of the other?

I changed my Central Conv Long Coding to enable beeps while locking but it did not work, so I thought maybe I don't have the alarm horn fitted. So I changed the long coding back to the original code. However, my "anti hijack" auto lock (when the vehicle goes past 20KMPH) stopped working. Is this possible?

Thanks in advance.

bump! :confused:

In my experience, Adaptation requires a 1 for on and 0 for off when in particular channels of the controller you are adapting.

Coding is a bit more complicated, this might be useful to you mate:

VW Long Coding explained, 2006+ VW GTI/Rabbit/Jetta

In terms of your problem with locking. What car do you have, and what year? It is possible that you have changed the coding incorrectly and disabled the antijack.

I have the Octavia-2 (1Z) model. I reverted to the 'copy-pasted' original factory code. No mistake in that.

Funny thing I noticed today: I changed "adaptation" to ON the anti hijack lock

46 central convenience

10 - Adaption

Channel 4

1= on, 0=off

And it is working. But when I view the long code, the tick-box against anti-hijack is disabled. Contradictory stuff. So I am wondering how these two are related.

I know Basic Settings is for calibration, Output tests are for 'testing.' But there seems to be an overlap between "adaptation" and "coding"??

My problem is solved - but I am a bit confused.

Yeah, thats a funny one mate. I wonder whether that is to do with the label file that is used to translate the long coding.

IE, the labels against the ticks in boxes on yours. I wonder if the labels are incorrect for some reason due to the file it looks at to determine the vehicle type??

I would always use Adaptation to be honest. I have activated Alarm Chirps and Antijack on an 06 Superb lately and Adaptaion worked perfectly.

For reference...

VWvortex Forums: Difference between "Coding" and "Adaptation"