Does anyone know what could cause a malfuction in the deployment of
the rear spoiler? The light is on in the dash and the manual deployment does
not move it period. I shy away from further examination because it
may get stuck in up position. Help please.

 

Mine did this recently and it turned out there is a metal sleeve near the end of the wire rod had came apart. The metal sleeve had a tack weld that came apart. There is supposed to be a plastic piece that fits around this metal sleeve but it had failed which allowed the metal sleeve to separate. Because of this, the wire inside the rod on one side was binding. You have to pull the carpet off the inside of the trunk to access the motor and supporting hardware for the rear spoiler. Take a look and see if it is the same for you.

On a different note, if you can't figure out whats going on, you can unplug the rear spoiler motor and manually lower it on the torx bit screw located in the center of it. The light on the dash will be on but at least the spoiler can be retracted down.

 

Thanks so very much. I will look into it ASAP.

 

Thank you for this great thread!
Does anyone know if any of the VW phaeton's front suspension parts are compatible?

 

Pretty cool. Great job compiling that info.

 

After a long research, I figured out how to disable the infamous TPMS Light.

First, pull the fuse #11 from the fuse box located in the driver side boot on top of the battery.

Next, get the Vag can bus scanner or ('v-checker' from ebay). V202 is what i got.

last, go to menu #19 from the scanner, hit coding, type in 0000006.
edited: TA-DA~ light is gone!

Make sure you always check the tire pressure and enjoy!!

 

Not always 0000006, just type in exactly the same, that was coded before. That re-coding makes the gateway seach for all controllers active in the car. And as the TPMS fuse is out, the car does not see it and "thinks" the car has no TPMS system, so no warning lamp will come anymore.
For re-activating put in the fuse and do the same again

 

Nice, thanks for the info!

 

Thanks!, btw it seems like you knew how to disable it all this time, just didnt tell us how.

 

Hello, Just wanted to share with you all, I had exactley the same issue. The black metal sleeve had come apart and so i ended up glueing it back together and putting some plastic zip ties around it. Its held so far (3 months and 2000miles of motor way driving)

 

Hello, Anyone had any issues with passenger side of the compartment blowing only hot air, even when you change the controls on the climate control, there seems to be no cooling coming through.

Did a scan on VAG-COM and nothin on there (apart from drivers seat inializing errer?!)

Someone pointed me in the direction of the heat pump valve, which basically has two actuators one for the drivers side and the other for the passenger side (Part No 3D2959617C). We believe this could be at fault - solunoid not turning valve to bypass hot coolent going to heat exchangers.

I've sourced the part, having it replaced soon so will report if this fixed the issue!

 

Quite a bit of info that covers the Bentley Continental GT, as the core of the car is a VW Phaeton.

http://forums.vwvortex.com/showthread.php?1652232

 

"What function is menu #19? Is it the "CAN Gateway"? I am using the VAS 5051 diagnostics and wish to replicate what you have achieved. Thanks for any information

 

I am using the VAS 5051 diagnostic system. Am I correct that all I need to do is to programme in the existing gateway code (Once the fuse is removed)? If so, I just need to figure out how to code the gateway using the VAS 5051.

 

Not to rehash an older thread but does anyone know how to disable the TPMS using the Vas 5054/5051 as opposed to the hand held vag-com?