TAZZ1
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Funny story. I bring in my car for first service at the dealer with 5,000km mileage, on the menu:
- oil /oil filter change AND
- try to turn off that annoying 120kph speed warning that's still on despite me reseting it
As ppl around the forum suggested the speed warning is due to the market specs programmed initially from VW and cannot be switched off using Vagcom.
The dealer couldn't turn it off at first but then the tech suggests plugging the car onto a bigger computer to change its "market" field from KSA (aka hot climate spec) to EUR, and so they did, my car market field is now logged as EUR, this affected the car in many ways:
-well first the speed warning is finaly gone:clap:,
-the seatbelt warning is on (which for me is the normal course of things),
-the ignition check is now silent rather than having a chime sound,
-the clock format is different , AND
- to my biggest surprise as soon as I drove off the the car feels more powerful. Nothing dramatic but enough to be clearly noticeable to the driver; it's more reactive on the gear changes, feels a bit more torquey on the mid range; exactly what you'd expect from around 10KW, 20Nm tq increase.
It cannot be the new oil especially that mine was still pretty new with just 5K Kms mileage (that's about 3K miles).
I know that the difference between the 188KW and the 199KW is just an ECU programming, so I was wondering if the dealer had maybe logged the entire Euro spec program into my Ecu?? or is my butt dyno doing me tricks?
Any ideas?
- oil /oil filter change AND
- try to turn off that annoying 120kph speed warning that's still on despite me reseting it
As ppl around the forum suggested the speed warning is due to the market specs programmed initially from VW and cannot be switched off using Vagcom.
The dealer couldn't turn it off at first but then the tech suggests plugging the car onto a bigger computer to change its "market" field from KSA (aka hot climate spec) to EUR, and so they did, my car market field is now logged as EUR, this affected the car in many ways:
-well first the speed warning is finaly gone:clap:,
-the seatbelt warning is on (which for me is the normal course of things),
-the ignition check is now silent rather than having a chime sound,
-the clock format is different , AND
- to my biggest surprise as soon as I drove off the the car feels more powerful. Nothing dramatic but enough to be clearly noticeable to the driver; it's more reactive on the gear changes, feels a bit more torquey on the mid range; exactly what you'd expect from around 10KW, 20Nm tq increase.
It cannot be the new oil especially that mine was still pretty new with just 5K Kms mileage (that's about 3K miles).
I know that the difference between the 188KW and the 199KW is just an ECU programming, so I was wondering if the dealer had maybe logged the entire Euro spec program into my Ecu?? or is my butt dyno doing me tricks?
Any ideas?