What did you do to your mk7 today?

[Raguvian]

I finally used my QuickJack to swap my wheels and tires.

 

[Chillout]

I was inspired by someone who retrifitted a Bentley Breitling clock into a Passat... so I made some custom clocks for the MIB2.5 and MIB2:

For more info and how to apply them, see here: https://github.com/jilleb/mib2-toolbox/wiki/Graphics-modification:-Famous-clocks



Next up: custom Ringtones

 

[Johaan]

You are in ATL. Which dealership?

Jim Ellis in Chamblee

Really like my advisor, Rose, but this was not a great experience. She was upset as well and worked to make it right.

My lesson learned is to also never book an appointment before a holiday, off or not.

 

[maxwell]

I was inspired by someone who retrifitted a Bentley Breitling clock into a Passat... so I made some custom clocks for the MIB2.5 and MIB2:

*pics*

Well done!

 

[Chillout]

Here's a small technical write-up I would love to share with you all.

I couldn't sleep... so I started working on a solution for everyone who wants custom color highlights inside their car, but don't have the facelift BCM... MK7.5 had an optional package for RGB ambient lighting, which allows you to modify the colors of the cluster, infotainment and interior LEDs. On MK7, this isn't possible unless you retrofit all the facelift hardware. So now I'm investigating the ambience color map files.

Here's the "ambience color map" for the MIB. I won't go too deep into technical details, but this file tells your infotainment:
"if it's a GTI, use red highlights in the MIB". My car has "blue" by default, and there's no way to change it to something other than these two colors... until now

Long story short: I made a script that makes the raw data "visible", so I can show what's what. In the image you can see some vertical bars with colors. Each of these is a color-setting (consisting of a Red, Green, Blue value, which combine to a color-code). The top half are all blue profiles, followed by a couple of red ones, and occassionally a white and green. I have to do some trial&error to find out what is what. The second half (you can see, the data has a slightly different "shape" there") is still a bit unclear what it does.. hopefully there's something interesting there!

My first test was to replace all "blue" entries by green ones:

And this lead to a new color inside my MIB:

 

[imthanick_a]

Here's a small technical write-up I would love to share with you all.

I couldn't sleep... so I started working on a solution for everyone who wants custom color highlights inside their car, but don't have the facelift BCM... MK7.5 had an optional package for RGB ambient lighting, which allows you to modify the colors of the cluster, infotainment and interior LEDs. On MK7, this isn't possible unless you retrofit all the facelift hardware. So now I'm investigating the ambience color map files.

Here's the "ambience color map" for the MIB. I won't go too deep into technical details, but this file tells your infotainment:
"if it's a GTI, use red highlights in the MIB". My car has "blue" by default, and there's no way to change it to something other than these two colors... until now

Long story short: I made a script that makes the raw data "visible", so I can show what's what. In the image you can see some vertical bars with colors. Each of these is a color-setting (consisting of a Red, Green, Blue value, which combine to a color-code). The top half are all blue profiles, followed by a couple of red ones, and occassionally a white and green. I have to do some trial&error to find out what is what. The second half (you can see, the data has a slightly different "shape" there") is still a bit unclear what it does.. hopefully there's something interesting there!

*pic*

My first test was to replace all "blue" entries by green ones:
*pic*

And this lead to a new color inside my MIB:
*pic*

Every post you make blows my mind. Keep it up man, this is awesome

 

[projectTVMK7]

Started my e-tuning process with Ed at EQT. I recently installed an IS38 and I've been running on the Cobb IS38 OTS map and what a world of difference just the EQT base map makes! Throttle response, power, and overall drivability is night and day compared to the Cobb OTS! Can't wait to see how the car runs once everything is dialed in.

 

[dcnz]

Picked this up yesterday. Fully optioned 2015 R wagon.

I'm extremely happy with it and it's a huge improvement over my MK6 R.

Just wish it had CarPlay though.

 

[GTI_JAV]

Steering wheel retrim all in for 200
The wheel is fatter and the quality of leather is top notch!

 

[GTIfan99]

Picked this up yesterday. Fully optioned 2015 R wagon.

I'm extremely happy with it and it's a huge improvement over my MK6 R.

Just wish it had CarPlay though.

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I didn't even know R wagon existed. That is awesome.

 

[blaqsheep]

Aw shit here we go. Second hand so now to just choose a tuner and wish my warranty goodbye.

 

[jimlloyd40]

Aw shit here we go. Second hand so now to just choose a tuner and wish my warranty goodbye.

Smart choice.

 

[blaqsheep]

Smart choice.

Is the Cobb IS38 OTS even worth dicking around on for the time being?

 

[GTI Jake]

Is the Cobb IS38 OTS even worth dicking around on for the time being?

I wouldn’t recommend any Cobb OTS tune, ever. They’re known to have excessive knock, so it’s not worth the risk IMO

 

[jimlloyd40]

Is the Cobb IS38 OTS even worth dicking around on for the time being?

Temporarily it's okay but I would get a dyno tune or protune asap. The Cobb tune isn't very good.