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Author Topic: Anyone know how to turn off the annoying hazard flashing under hard braking?  (Read 1278 times)

Offline pudding

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Can it be done with VCDS, or through the Highline MFD menu?

I came up against a bunch of slow moving traffic on the motorway (a tractor, caused the usual accordion effect) so I had to brake hard, and the hazards started flashing.  Irritating as it wasn't THAT hard a stop!


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I'd imagine it's possible with VCDS, but it's a reasonably good safety feature to be honest, when I'm slowing from 70mph down to anything slower than 40mph on the motorway I stick my hazards on as it helps people work out what's going on and I get less people getting right on my rear bumper in those situations.

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It's an option on VCDS that only late mk5 had activated from factory, AFAIK. If it annoys you, just deactivate it. :happy2:

I think it's a good safety feature most of the times but I've had times that it activated for not a good enough reason, IMO. :signLOL:

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Cool!  I hear what you're saying but the hazards were flashing for ages after I slowed down though!!!  I didn't think to press the hazard switch actually, would that cancel them?

I need to turn off the lane change 3 indicator flash thing too as that buggers up my quick flash left then right to thank people for letting me into a gap!!


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I think you can turn off the hazards by switching on and then off, but I need to confirm it.

The blinkers are also programmable by VCDS. :happy2: My PolarFIS can do it from the menus as well. :smiley: