MkV Tips, Tricks, and Easter Eggs

[guilford32]

If you get in the car after it rains with water on the roof and roll down your windows you get a nice OEM water fall.

[n82007rabbit]

if you take the rear spray nozzle cap off.. you get a squirt gun. very useful for tailgaters, or if you want to drive infront of some bros and piss em off.

I use this feature ALL THE TIME.
i like going to the movies when all the middle school punks are there waiting for their mommys.... and i back up and spray them.

[oldschool86045]

if you open the rear doors while it's raining, you'll also get the same OEM water fall.

[MarcosMK5]

Quote, originally posted by guilford32 »

If you get in the car after it rains with water on the roof and roll down your windows you get a nice OEM water fall.

i ****ing hate this soooo much

[xZANEx]

Quote, originally posted by n82007rabbit »

i like going to the movies when all the middle school punks are there waiting for their mommys.... and i back up and spray them.

[darkstarbfd]

Quote, originally posted by ShadowWabbit »

if you leave ur e-brake off and ur car in neutral. it will roll and it will hit something

i seriously lol'd

[bluetapedr3w]

Quote, originally posted by n82007rabbit »

if you take the rear spray nozzle cap off.. you get a squirt gun. very useful for tailgaters, or if you want to drive infront of some bros and piss em off. I use this feature ALL THE TIME.

I'm really interested in doing this, how do you take the spray nozzle cap off?

[ShadowRabbit6]

Quote, originally posted by wabbbit09 »

^ rear wiper deletes FTW haha x2

True story...

[ShadowRabbit6]

Quote, originally posted by Motohip »

All lights shut off after 10 minutes. Even if you TRY to leave them on. I know cause I tried installing a stereo at night.

Hmmmm.....i left my lights on thius morning when I came into work and a buddy told me like 30 minutes later they were on.....what's up with that?

[xZANEx]

inside the car

[silverA4quattro]

Good thread...there's a huge one in the B6 Passat forum.

If you unlock your car then open the door, press (down) and hold the drivers window switch and all 4 windows will roll down for as long as you hold the button. This is a good trick in case you don't have remote windows VAG'd.

Wipers will slow down when you come to a stop. If they're on "low", they'll slow to intermittent when you stop.

New feature for 09 cars: With Climatic semi-auto a/c, the recirculate function now works automatically to enhance cooling. If you're in fresh mode, but the cabin isn't cooling quickly enough, it will switch to recirc. It goes back to fresh when the cabin has cooled sufficiently. 09+ cars ONLY.

[silverA4quattro]

Quote, originally posted by oldschool86045 »

if you open the rear doors while it's raining, you'll also get the same OEM water fall.

*works with snow too. You get a nice VW avalanche on your drivers seat.

[RichardNixonsHead]

Quote, originally posted by crow86 »

if you shut the car off and dont take out the key. the radio shuts off after about an hour and a half

Shut the car off, take the key out, press the radio power on button and it stays ON for about an hour and a half!!

[RichardNixonsHead]

Oh, here's a goodie.... run through with a few VAG changes without recording the 'before' configuration and when your Sirius is completely dead the next day, you literally sh*t yourself!

[MattWayMK5]

Quote, originally posted by Motohip »

Your wipers will never stick in the halfway up position that I HATE SO MUCH! Even if it's in mid wipe and you remove the key, they will still go down.

If you tap the window wipers stalk downwards right after you shut the car off it will put them in the up position

[Chacolla]

Quote, originally posted by guilford32 »

If you get in the car after it rains with water on the roof and roll down your windows you get a nice OEM water fall.

I hate when that happens. The roof holds SO much water...as soon as you come to a stop, all the water gushes down on your arm. You don't know how many times I've gone into work and people have said "why is your left sleeve soaking wet?"

...don't ask...

[FaLLeNAn9eL]

Every so often, a little icon appears on the MFD letting you know there's a wrench in your engine bay.

[oldschool86045]

i've seen that wrench on the mfd, but i can't find it in the engine bay. has anyone seen this wrench's location?

[RINGSROC]

Rear brake pads only last 8K if you have part # 1K0-698-451-F

They last 30K if you have part # 1K0-698-451-D

[BurgerGuy]

Quote, originally posted by Chacolla »

I hate when that happens. The roof holds SO much water...as soon as you come to a stop, all the water gushes down on your arm. You don't know how many times I've gone into work and people have said "why is your left sleeve soaking wet?" ...don't ask...

I've experienced the OEM waterfall and avalanche on several occasions. Not fun.

[peachypotpies]

Quote, originally posted by oldschool86045 »

i've seen that wrench on the mfd, but i can't find it in the engine bay. has anyone seen this wrench's location?

Try checking the airbox.

[oldschool86045]

they keep wrenches in the airbox? ...im just getting more and more confused by vw.

its okay ...i'll keep checking

[Hassellin da Hoff]

Quote, originally posted by guilford32 »

If you get in the car after it rains with water on the roof and roll down your windows you get a nice OEM water fall.

Happened to me today

[CandyWhiteTSi]

Quote, originally posted by MattWayMK5 »

If you tap the window wipers stalk downwards right after you shut the car off it will put them in the up position

took me a long time to figure this out... i thought it was so silly to not be able to erect my wipers for snow/ ice conditions... then i hit it on accident and was like "ooooooooooohhhhh" haha

[vwgtimk41088]

Quote, originally posted by ShadowRabbit6 »

Hmmmm.....i left my lights on thius morning when I came into work and a buddy told me like 30 minutes later they were on.....what's up with that?

This feature and the radio feature are more related to your current battery voltage. they go off at a specified voltage that will still let the car crank.

[KyleCrish]

Quote, originally posted by CandyWhiteTSi »

took me a long time to figure this out... i thought it was so silly to not be able to erect my wipers for snow/ ice conditions... then i hit it on accident and was like "ooooooooooohhhhh" haha

wait... really? im gonna have to try that tomorrow. im a car detailer and it kills me that i cant easily access the rest of my window lol

[shortydub]

Quote, originally posted by KyleCrish »

wait... really? im gonna have to try that tomorrow. im a car detailer and it kills me that i cant easily access the rest of my window lol

Just don't open the hood with the wipers in the up position. You won't like the results.

[S4NoMore]

Quote, originally posted by BurgerGuy »

I've experienced the OEM waterfall and avalanche on several occasions. Not fun.

really though? are you familiar with the saying "fool me once, shame on you. fool me twice, shame on me"? and you didn't even say twice, but several lol. after this happened once, i wait to roll the windows down after driving for a bit and taking the turns out of my neighborhood.

but yea, it sucks, poor design.

although, now that i imagine it, i can definitely see "shaving rain gutters" as a popular trend if these cars had them. i detail bmws all day, those gutters are a bit of an annoyance to wash/dry. when i wash the gti, it's a relief to not have to deal with that. smooth roof ftw. sometimes.

[oldschool86045]

haha yea i agree with that. it happened the first time to me the other day coming home from work...it was a tragedy, but leather seats wipe up easily plus, it drives so ****ing nice, the car does everything else amazingly, so it cancells out. lol

Oh, and you can change the footwell lighting of the front door from 0 to 100 %...why you need to do that is beyond me.

[INYNN]

If you get on the brakes REALLY hard at highway speeds the car will auto put on the 4-ways.

I guess VW considers my driving an emergency situation because it happens all the time to me.

[runnin9z]

Quote, originally posted by Motohip »

In between the 2 cup holders is a Red Bull holder.

Dude i was just going to say this, found this out last week when i was getting in my car right as the red bull girls drove by, i love college.

[JP3GTI]

after washing your car, slap the sh!t out of the mirrors to get all the water out

[bryanc]

These may be common, but they both were new to me:

* Tap the turn signal lever without fully engaging the switch and it will blink just three times for a lane change.

* Leave the turn signal lever in the on position with the car parked, and the parking lights on just that half of the car stay on.

[classicjetta]

There was an old thread with this info: http://forums.vwvortex.com/zerothread?id=1895310

[silverA4quattro]

Quote, originally posted by bryanc »

* Leave the turn signal lever in the on position with the car parked, and the parking lights on just that half of the car stay on.

The majority of North American cars don't have this enabled.

Can be done with Vagcom in most cases though.