The button on the left controls the steering wheel lights. Welcome to the Touareg clan

 

The button on the left controls the steering wheel lights. Welcome to the Touareg clan

Steering wheel lights? -News to me.

BTW; At what outside temperature does the button for the heated steering wheel become activated? It doesn't appear to work when the temp is 50 degrees or more.

 

I thought this might be the case...I know I was able to turn my heat on in the past.

 

Yeah....it's a decoy button on mine. I was near bringing it in for service under warranty until I found that having the button didn't mean the option was included. It was info found here that saved me from being the butt of service departments jokes.

 

Now I have to play with the button on the left. What is it supposed to do to the interior lights?

 

it turns off your steering wheel lights at night.

 

I've read that there was a full cold weather package that had rear heated seats and an auxillary cabin heater powered by engine fuel. In that kit I would guess that the heated wheel would be included. I haven't found where it may have been a single option outside of a package. When I got my Touareg 3 months ago, I was seaching too because I thought I might have the feature. Another reference I found to something heated was the front windshield. There appears to be references to it in the control module listing but I can't find any actual option like that in any package. That would be a feature I'd really like. My Land Rover has it and it's outstanding! Maybe the Touareg listing is really for the heated windshield washer fluid.

 

I've read that there was a full cold weather package that had rear heated seats and an auxillary cabin heater powered by engine fuel. In that kit I would guess that the heated wheel would be included. .

Mine came with the cold weather pack which includes heated front and rear seats, heated steering wheel, and heated nozzles/mirrors...no aux heater that I know of except for the webasto in the V10s, diesels need the aux heat...gas ones don't. Diesels take forever to warm up in cold weather.

 

Yes, it is heated nozzles, but only if you have the defroster on I believe. Not a heated windshield at all.

 

Yeah, that's probably the V10 with the aux heater. It was something I came across in an obscure Touareg review one time and it didn't say whether it was a gas or diesel option. Thanks for clearing that up.

 

I have an 05 with the cold weather pack an heated wheel, but i don't have a dash icon to show me its on??

 

I own a 2005 V8 with the heated steering wheel. Also have the front and rear heated seats, but not the 4-zone climate control.

If the outside temperature sensor reads 50 degrees or colder, a white icon and text appears in the middle color display in the instrument panel when you start the car, telling you the heated wheel is off. Pushing the side button on the wheel turns the heat on. When it's on, the white icon turns green and it says something like "heated steering wheel on." But you can't activate the heated wheel when the exterior temp is over 50 degrees nor do you see the white ("off") icon & text if over 50 degrees.

 

I have the cold weather package, including aux heater, front/rear heated seats, heated mirrors/nozzles, 4 zone climatronic. I don't think that I have the heated steering wheel. Should I?

 

Mine doesn't either. I believe Aircooled explained that VWOA didn't put the heated wheel in the 2006 V10 package.

 

I have an 04 v8, it has the cold weather package: heated steering wheel, rear seats, washers/mirrors. No 4-zone climate control for the rear though.

 

No 4-zone climate control for the rear though.

Me either. But the two of us in the car are happy with the same temp setting up front. And when we have had friends in the backseat, they like either the air same as us up front, or they're smiling big time with the seat heaters in the winter.

 

Makes sense the (one) dealer in AK didn't order it the second hand one I bought with the winter package - guess he was selling it in Anchorage not Fairbanks... and ya wonder why I don't set foot inside a dealer...

siberian

 

Re-reading this post, I have an 08 V8 that has 4 zone air, heated seats etc... but no heated steering. As it seems there's a whole set of combinations that would include heated steering what is the code that would tell you you have one?

Just wondering whether it could have been disabled on mine...?

siberian

 

Re-reading this post, I have an 08 V8 that has 4 zone air, heated seats etc... but no heated steering. As it seems there's a whole set of combinations that would include heated steering what is the code that would tell you you have one?

Just wondering whether it could have been disabled on mine...?

siberian

Being an 08 you could have possibly anything. There was even some V10's with no heated wheel. I did not seem to matter what packages you had apparently. VWoA apparently had a lot to do with that seeing as how my 2010 has a heated wheel but no power folding mirror, seat memory or auto dimming side mirrors. Features I miss from my 04.

 

The steering wheel heater comes with the winter package option.

 

As I said above, things changed starting in 08. So there is no rhyme or reason as to what comes with what.
Winter package could have been what it came with in your year, but not holding true in the newer ones.

 

Right Yeti, as I have the folding mirrors and about every conceivable option except the lane drift, TV.

Guess there's no harm in "enabling" it from the myriad of choices available in the VAG-COM - assuming I can remember where it was I saw it

siberian

 

Right Yeti, as I have the folding mirrors and about every conceivable option except the lane drift, TV.

Guess there's no harm in "enabling" it from the myriad of choices available in the VAG-COM - assuming I can remember where it was I saw it

siberian

There is more to it then just enabling it. You need the wheel and clock spring to make it fully functional. There may be a module to add to, I am not postive on that part. It is not like they just shipped with the option disabled.

 

I realize that, I just meant that should they (the dealer in Florida) have disabled it (why? I wouldn't know any more than the morons where I bought the car {dealer in MA} didn't bother to check that 2 out of 3 keys were inop) it wouldn't hurt to enable the functionality in VAG-COM. Meaning if I did enable it and they had not installed it it wouldn't destroy the warp core.

siberian

 

My heated steering wheel is on every day during the winter. It is a great option when getting into a cold car.

 

OK now you're gonna (like Nickm) start on winter and cold (you're 25 degrees latitude south of where I am)

siberian

 

OK, I tried to enable the heated function but it won't let you as it's dependent on which module you have. Thus when it checks that you enabled it needs a certain module to accept the code.

No harm done as it simply won't accept the input.

siberian (who does NOT have but SHOULD have whilst others that DO have SHOULDN'T)

 

We have heated steering wheel...and the side mirrors are heated (defrost)....memory seats front & back seats heat , this thing even has puch button start...so I guess its a cold weather order from the orginal owner its an 08 and we got when it had 20.234 miles on it. funny thing we find some it has just about every time we get in it...lol

 

Well that definitely makes sense to have the cold weather package in Dallas. Heavens you guys must get into the lower 60s (above) in the dead of winter.

siberian

 

Heck, were not sure if it has the 4 zone cold weather package or not..it might not have that?..but just tinkering with it reading the manual, it has the heated steering wheel and the seats heat, has that 4 position wheel you can turn up 4 being on high heat...sure feels good tho it has push button start and a lot of other things we have not found yet were still looking for the ''kitchen sink''......but your right we don't hardly have any frezzing weather..it got down to 10 a few nights ago temp 17 wind chill was 10 but most of the time the weather is not that cold...& why this Touareg ended up here in North Tx is beyound us.
but we like all the fetures this Touareg has rather or not we use them... there there.

 

May not suppose to ''post''this here?.. but thought I'd share.

Wife had to take some people home where she works ? There BMW & Luxus people, Well today was there first ride in a Touareg...we just had it cleaned and polish up...new tyres...she said those people were impressed with VW & Our Touareg..they kept saying nice this car is really nice rides really nice...wife said well Thank you we really love it.

 

Oh I know what you mean siberia its really really cold here...lol

 

Wife is an easier solution...

siberian