Nice Tara, congrats! Long time no see or hear!

Yeah a lifetime on cold concrete floors has taken its toll.

Ahh....kneepads. Must be a blessing on the concrete floor when working awkwardly under the dash.


Keep meaning to buy me some.

With the rear handles installed and all the wiring run forward I had a look at my wiring diagrams to see what pins I'd need to connect to.
It was at this point I realized this wasn't going to work as the diagram with the 32 pin module had no provision for rear handles......bummer.
Other cars like Passat (And very late Golf, like 2020 in some countries) had another module with a 40 pin connector where this retrofit would be possible.
Doing further research online many said it couldn't be done because of having to program the keys for the remote access via Odis and Odis would reject this due to the module not belonging in that car.
Things were starting to look pretty bleak but reading more I found 2 people that claimed to have done it successfully with a new module and some trickery to get Odis to adapt the keys. One of those guys gave me a bit of a rundown how to do it and even shared the dataset I would need for the new module.
I decided since I'd come this far I'd give it a go, Aliexpress had new modules for cheap so I ordered one and got that on its way.

Thinking more about it I made a decision to build a T32 to T40 adapter harness in case things went wrong and I ended up with a bricked car I could then just put my old module back in, clear the codes and carry on.
New connectors were also on Aliexpress so once those arrived I made the adapter harness. (No rear doors connected yet)
Plugged the new module in and flashed the dataset, easy as. Made some coding adaptations which it accepted so all was looking good.

In theory all that was required was to adapt the keys but to my utter surprise the lock / unlock on the key already worked so I tried starting the car and it started up fine.
Shut it off and closed the door, kessy lock worked so nothing further required. The new module must have got its information from the BCM and cluster automatically. Win!
Tucked the new module and my menagerie of wiring away temporarily and drove the car a couple of days carrying the old module just in case but all was well.
Now the difficult part, repining the T32 to T40 connector permanently which is very difficult to get to under the dash.
Lots of cursing and many many hours later everything was in place and rear handles now added which work flawlessly.
I think in the end it was the fact I used a brand new module that made this possible, love the fact it works and I actually use it quite a lot.

Since a few have asked I still own this car and unfortunately have not done anything with it for quite a long time.
It has a stock 2.8L and 6 speed back in it and lately I've been considering selling it as the dream of building the new engine just seems so far away.
So, if anyone might be interested hit me up.

Hello,

I have a 2014 v6 tdi touareg with the Aisin 8 Speed Auto gearbox. It's a lovely car, done 200k kms but has great dealer service history and is in excellent shape cosmetically and engine works smoothly.

However I've had some issues with the gearbox, I've never had any fault codes or anything like that but I've felt that it isn't as smooth as it should be, my previous 2012 touareg v6 tdi felt smoother, although that one didn't have the optional "sports auto gearbox with paddleshifters". I wonder if there's a difference in gearbox tunes between the two, particularly with my current car being facelift.

Anyway, the issue I'm having is that at slow speeds, light loads, particularly when driving in traffic (stop and go or slow moving) or town in general, if it is slowly accelerating towards the point where it needs to upshift, but I let off the throttle just before it wants to shift or reduce the engine load significantly before the shift, the subsequent gear change is quite rough, almost like it got confused and didn't realise I've let off. This is quite frustrating as it makes the car feel very clunky. Also downshifting into 2nd feels a little clunky as well, it feels like it holds onto third gear too long, when slowing down, then you want to go again, and all of a sudden it tries to jump down into second, not particularly smooth. Additionally it can feel a bit clunky letting off/getting back on the throttle. IE driving along in say 2nd gear, let off throttle car jerks slightly, getting back on throttle, car jerks slightly as engine is connected back up to the wheels.

I suspected a valvebody issue, so I have replaced the valvebody with a remanufactured unit and it seems ti be improved however still not as smooth as it should be. It almost feels more like a TCU tune issue, as the car is capable of shifting smoothly.

Also I have noted an occasional slightly clunk in the drivetrain somewhere when I release the brake and roll forward and then stop again.

Would be interested to hear if anyone has had similar experiences with the Aisin 8 speed and what they did to fix it.

Is there any software updates available? Anyone on here able to perform an update to cayenne software potentially using VCdS?

I come from the bmw world, and have never experienced this sort of shifting with any of the zf auto boxes.

Cheers, Elias

Can you code a 2011 7P 3.0TDI Bluemotion Touareg so the Start/Stop defaults to off instead of on?

Yeah it just does the cluster and head unit, the door ones stay white in my case.
I had to set 3 RGB colours to get 1 of the background colours to work so yeah 3 x 30 colours was 90 lines of code to change. With VCDs at least.
Traffic sign recognition works but it's a bit hit and miss really as we don't seem to use the round speed signs all that much anymore. It does pick up the overhead LED ones on the motorway too.

DRL was pretty easy, took a bit of mucking around but figured it out. I've lost count of how many changes I've made and stuff I've activated but the car is 100% fault code free which is pretty cool.
I agree. I much prefer it over the 8, Nicer place to be without a stupid screen to navigate.

Quote from: 80 Vert on April 27, 2025, 11:40:41 AM

Does this change just the colour scheme on the infotainment and virtual cockpit? It doesn't change the ambient lighting in the door cards etc right? I played around with this on my R, but pretty sure they are just fixed white LED's. Unlike the Mk8 which you can set the ambient lighting colour for the whole car.

Definitely wasn't 90 lines of code in OBDeleven! There is actually a pretty good and active OBDeleven forum which I use fairly frequently for coding. There are various threads about 'cool things to unlock on XX car'. Might be on interest.

I could never get the speed sign recognition working on mine. Is it working on yours? I've only seen it work on an NZ new car with NZ navigation. So it made me wonder if it didn't work because I had Japanese maps and maybe it used camera/GPS together to get speed limit information.

Was the DRL activation easy? I've had a 2017 Mk7.5 and a 2018 Mk7.5. The 2017 was easy, flick it on via a couple of settings in central convenience. The 2018 onwards models have a control module in the headlight, it took quite a bit more work. I can't remember the steps but it took me a good few days of troubleshooting to crack the code.

Mk7.5 is peak Golf I reckon, great platform, styling, and balance of tech vs. tactile controls.

90's tuner style?