Coming Home / Leaving Home with the fog lights

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COMMUNITY-SOURCED · MK7 · LIGHTING

Uses the front fog lights instead of the low beams for Coming Home / Leaving Home lighting.

Applies to
VW Golf Mk7 (5G) with factory front fog lights.

Not confirmed for
Golf R and GTE (no factory front fogs), Golf 7.5 facelift, Golf SportWagen/Alltrack, Jetta (any year), Audi A3/S3 8V, Tiguan and other MQB cars

Module
09 Cent. Elect. (Central Electronics / body control module)

Method
Adaptation

Requires
Factory front fog lights, and Coming/Leaving Home working on the car.

1 · Before you start

Run a full Auto-Scan and save it. In 09 Cent. Elect. (Central Electronics / body control module), write down or screenshot the current value of every setting before you change it.

2 · VCDS

Open address 09 (Cent. Elect.) and save an Adaptation channel map first.
Security Access (16): enter 31347.
Adaptation (10): choose 'Comfort illumination-Coming Home Leuchten'. Find it by name; channel numbers vary with equipment.
Set it to 'Fog light' (German: 'Nebellicht') and save.

What this changes

Replaces the lamps used for Coming/Leaving Home: the fog lights instead of the low beams. This is a selector setting; no Leuchte output or slot is changed. Note: vag-coding's separate 'xenon and LEDs' version (keep low beam, add fogs) writes 'Coming Home oder Leaving home Aktiv' into Lichtfunktion slot E of both fog outputs and sets Dimmwert EF to 100. That version would overwrite slot E and is not part of this entry.

Notes

golfgtiforum notes that channel numbers vary with equipment, so search by the label.

Sources: vag-coding.net · vag-coding.net · ascoding.ch · golfgtiforum.co.uk · golfgtiforum.co.uk · carwiki.de · vag-coding.net · wiki.ross-tech.com

Reference only. No guarantee of compatibility. MK6IX doesn’t answer coding questions or troubleshoot coding. Back up your original coding before making any change. You code your car at your own risk.