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Does anyone know how to get our Adaptive Brake lights to work?

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Old 07-28-2011, 11:03 PM
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Default Does anyone know how to get our Adaptive Brake lights to work?

I've been messing around with my vag-com or shall I say my half-*** VChecker Pro. I can't get the adaptive brake lights to work. [comfort system]46- channel 50 changed adaptation to 3 as per Ross-Tech's website. I cant get them to work no matter how hard I stop, so I think that there's something more needed to enable this feature.
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What do you mean by adaptive break lights?
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Originally Posted by KevinGary
What do you mean by adaptive break lights?
http://500sec.com/adaptive-brake-light/

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=745aL...eature=related
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It was on BMW not Audi.
But seriously the manual states that "car in emergency braking". It might meant that your brake controls think that car in motion and you hit brake and it must help you stopping. And only under these conditions it will show the "adaptive brake lights".
In other words you can not see it in the garage and I would not recommend to to have observer following you when you try emergency braking. Most likely he will end up in the rear of your car.
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Originally Posted by beep-beep
It was on BMW not Audi.
But seriously the manual states that "car in emergency braking". It might meant that your brake controls think that car in motion and you hit brake and it must help you stopping. And only under these conditions it will show the "adaptive brake lights".
In other words you can not see it in the garage and I would not recommend to to have observer following you when you try emergency braking. Most likely he will end up in the rear of your car.
To test, I've had someone parked on the side of the road, as I approached from 60+ I slammed on the brakes hard enough to activate ABS. I don't know how they activated them in the garage standing still.
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It's great to see this this post. I've been exploring this too and there's an existing thread here:
Adaptive Braking

I believe we just have to set it on VAG COM, and while I have the full VAG kit, I'm new to this kind of coding. If someone can help me figure out what to do to set it, I will take a video of it in operation. My understanding is the hazard lights should temporarily activate under heavy braking.
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