cold/freezing chime disable?

Now that i've purchased my vag-com-can-hex-usb (thanks Ross-Tech!) I've disabled the irritating seatbelt chime (yes, i always waer my seatbelts), recoded my tranny to 01134, changed to autounlock.'

Now I want to disable that most dreadful chime that blings and messages in the MFA when the outdoor temp drops below 40. Dug thru the "instrumentation" in vag-com but didnt find anything.

Ross-tech was out of the Bently manual.

Can't get rid of it. You can totally disable the temp display if you want...

-Jason

why does this bother you, it only happens now an then

I guess it depends on where you are. Some trips I get it 4 or 5 times as it does it two points, and at (39 ddeg?) yep, its anoying, but you do get used to it, though the first couple of months you wonder what blew up!

forcefedsleeper said:

why does this bother you, it only happens now an then

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I'm curious where you live.

I'm in the northeast of PA. During the winter, the temp will hand around 40 for days and days. Invariably, that darn chime will bling off just as you're merging into traffic, going thru an intersection, or at other inopportune times. Always jars my wife.

Can I upload a custom ringer for it instead :^)

whitedog said:

I'm curious where you live.

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PA/MD area


seriously though the cold chime will only ring once

I've had it ding a few times durring trips in the Passat. It can happen, and generally freaks out the female passengers in the car. (Oh no! what's wrong with the car???)

-Jason

lol...i think its a good feature - reminds you of the fact that freezing on the road will set in

Hmmm, I live in Anchorage AK. It goes off frequently. As I am aware that

1. It can be icy any time all winter
2. It can and does snow at anytime
3. It chimes at two points, and if it goes enough above the chime point (or you turn off and start again) it does it again.

I don't need it. Its like having an alarm that says there are moose out. Well yea, what I need to know is there one coming out of the woods right now that I am going to hit, if not, so what?

Again, I have gotten to ignore it (sort of like a backup horn going off all the time). I still don't like it, and it would be nice to get rid of it.

You have two options. Get rid of the temp display totally, or get rid of the speaker which plays the chime. I wouldn't do the latter... the same speaker also does the loud BEEP if your oil or coolant is low.

-Jason

Smokerr said:

I don't need it. Its like having an alarm that says there are moose out. Well yea, what I need to know is there one coming out of the woods right now that I am going to hit, if not, so what?

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lol that's the best