[1analguy]

FYI, this turn signal mod does not work on some (if not all) '11s. It won't work on mine. The VCDS does change the number value in the adaptation, but the car just laughs it off and keeps blinking 3 times anyway...

 

[1analguy]

Could there be some other setting which is overriding the 3 blink setting?

Nope. Others have run into this "brick wall", too.

Keithuk, not the flash rate, but the number of flashes for a signal 'tap'

I could swear I saw a #flash adjustment in my us golf mfi setup as well. Or maybe that was the drl setting (which is def avail in mfi)...

The only adjustment for "comfort" flashers in the MFI is the one that turns the function on or off. If you turn on the function in the MFI, but are not happy with three flashes, you'll need VCDS to change the number of flashes to anything from one flash to five flashes. It's just that some (all?) 2011s don't respond to your new setting and continue to flash three times no matter what the setting is. My car is like that...

Ok I'm with you now on that point. I've read on other forums that a number of users want to increase the number of flashes it makes. I wonder if anyone has investigated this?

Again this is yet another topic needed in http://www.myturbodiesel.com/forum/f10/vcds-vag-com-section-here-3918/

See above...

 

[1analguy]

You and me and everyone else, buddy

My thinking was that there's a bit of a bug with the 2011's, and people had had some success by flashing multiple times, cycling the ignition, etc. The other thing I was going to try was briefly (<1 sec) disconnecting the battery -- I bet that would work too. But this is a more elegant workaround. For what it's worth, I'm not 100% sure what the factory reset really is intended to do. I have VAG'd a bunch of things, like LED tails, coming home, etc., and it left all that stuff untouched. :dunno

The "reset" procedure worked on my '11...without resetting anything else, either! Thanks for the tip. Here's what I think is happening: I believe that "reset to factory" actually means "reset to fixed (as in, long-coded) settings". It probably reverts the MFI-adjustable features to whatever the settings are in the long coding. If you've made the change in the long coding, it now considers that to be the "factory" setting, and so does not bother to change it...that's my guess, anyway.