New A6 Owner - Newbie Questions :)

**Kaiser2000** · 10-06-2013,07:59 PM

Evening all,

So after 5 years of happy B6 Passat ownership (a 2006 2.0 TDI DSG model), as of last week I've become a member of the A6 fraternity with this...

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.... a 2005 3.0 TDI Quattro with lots of toys including sunroof, auto lights, rear parking sensors, MFSW, factory bluetooth, full colour MMI etc - to say I'm well chuffed would be an understatement!

So, now that I have her I'm already wondering what I can do with her. Are there any "essential knowledge and tweaks every A6 owner should know!" type suggestions?

I've also gotten a hold of a VCDS cable & software so some things that would be nice to setup (from reading other posts) would be:
- Activate the hidden MMI menu .. CAR+SETUP doesn't work?
- Activate the Parking sensor display (if possible?)
- Disable the pasenger seat belt warning .. very annoying when all that's there is the shopping!
- Set DRLs (front and back) to enabled
- Again, any other "must haves"

Bear in mind I'm completely new to VCDS so any "idiot's guides to VCDS" would be great here too.

Cheers for any tips, suggestions or links.

**Guest 2** · 10-06-2013,08:03 PM

Welcome to A6 ownership!

Hidden green menu needs vcds to enable - only real tweak in here is the battery meter
Optical lines are possible if your parking module supports it, a check with vcds would tell you the PN
You need vcds for this (you can see where this is going!)
DRLs on halogen models are dipped beam and rear tails (again, vcds is needed

)

I wrote one for Brycie, I will try and get this off him and forward it on.

All the tweaks are here under prefacelift - https://www.vwaudiforum.co.uk/forum/s...p-Pre-Facelift

**Guest 2** · 10-06-2013,08:09 PM

Just sent you the walkthrough

Will post this in the open forum too

**roy_rajat** · 13-06-2013,01:54 PM

Originally Posted by A6_Chris

Just sent you the walkthrough

Will post this in the open forum too

It would be great to get an idiot's guide to use VCDS. I am seriously considering of getting one off the ebay.

**rafletcher** · 13-06-2013,03:08 PM

Anything (well anything claiming to be VCDS

) off eBay will be pirated. Official resellers in the UK are Gendan, Ilexa, Marshalls and Vtech

Ross-Tech: Distributor List

The other stuff (the £10 readers) aren't VCDS.

**MarkTM** · 13-06-2013,03:37 PM

^^^^Does this look pirated?

Genuine Ross-Tech VAG-COM Pro Kit - VW Audi Skoda Seat - VCDS | eBay

**Guest 2** · 13-06-2013,03:40 PM

Originally Posted by roy_rajat

It would be great to get an idiot's guide to use VCDS. I am seriously considering of getting one off the ebay.

I'll add it now to the VCDS section

**Guest 2** · 13-06-2013,04:06 PM

Originally Posted by roy_rajat

It would be great to get an idiot's guide to use VCDS. I am seriously considering of getting one off the ebay.

You can find it here - Using Different Parts of VCDS

**MarkTM** · 13-06-2013,04:11 PM

Just making the point that not everything on ebay is hooky...yes invariably overpriced in most cases of 'buy it now' and if an auction it usually goes for the same price as a new one!

Occassionally 'used genuine' come up for sale but think since they will have been registered I believe that support is chargeable.

**Kaiser2000** · 10-06-2013,08:11 PM

Cheers Chris,

Some interesting reading there alright. So all I need to do is connect the cable, fire up VCDS and follow the instructions is it? (sounds too easy!)

Speaking of easy.. how easy is it to screw up settings when messing with this stuff - coming from an IT background I'm looking at this as the registry of the car.. something to be edited very carefully!

Thanks for the offer of doing this all for me, but I don't get up North much these days unfortunately. Used to get the Passat serviced in Enniskillen alright but I've moved back to Dublin since there ya see.

EDIT: Just got the walkthrough as I was typing this - thanks again!