Hi,
First off the car is actually a TDI, but have used this forum before for my old MK5 GTI and found it very useful so hopefully someone can help.
Just bought a 2007 UK right hand drive TDI. It come up with an error in the main display and the bulb/light fault complaining that the LEFT hand side rear fog light is not working. It has a right hand/offside fog as expected and this works. The equivalent on the left is the reverse light. So why do I get an error for the non existent left hand fog light?
A couple of possible clues.
1) I read somewhere of a similar issue where the car was set to be a left hand drive car as opposed to right hand drive, so maybe this is the issue? A friend has a Ross tech cable/software and we plugged it in. But could not find a setting that seemed to match this. We did however find a setting to enable both fog lamps, which was set on. So we turned this off and reset fault codes and the issue disappeared with lights remaining working as expected. We thought we’d cracked it, but after 10 mins of driving the same error re-appeared.
2) This car has a different reverse light bulb than my previous MK5 GTI I’m sure (also a 2007). Note the rear left cluster pics showing the middle/reverse bulb. Is this correct for the year of the car, could it be that this bulb/cluster is incorrect and causing the error? As I’m sure my previous car did not have the same type of reverse light bulb.
Appreciate any help offered.
