My heated mirrors are not working on the new GTI???

[quailallstar]

Yesterday I decided to test out the heated mirrors. I switched the switch to the heating position...waited...waited and waited even more... NOTHING. Has anyone noticed this as well? I checked all the fuses in the fuse box and cross checked with the manual. Nothing looks off. Also the manual has some wrong info. Some of the fuses labled are not what the manual says they are for... wierd huh..

Is this another factory screw up?

[Teknophreak]

Umm, you are kidding, right??? You live in Florida.....

[EMB145Driver]

They only heat up enough to defog or loosen a little ice, like the back window. I don't know if you'd ever feel them unless the ambient temperature was pretty low.

[Freek]

mine work...the night i took delivery of my car the mirrors fogged up...the heater took care of that right fast

[Wantagti]

Most cars require you to turn the defrost on for heated mirrors to come on. I haven't read the owner's manual since I don't have one I could be wrong.

[bilbos]

Most cars require you to turn the defrost on for heated mirrors to come on. I haven't read the owner's manual since I don't have one I could be wrong.

I think that in the GTI, the heated mirrors are independent of the rear window defroster.

You are right though, in most other cars they are linked.

[Rabbit GTI]

yes...the heated mirrors in newer vw's work from the mirrors switch by keeping it turned to the middle (ie not switched to move either mirror)

[Wild Hare]

What was the outside air temp at the time? Just curious.

[quailallstar]

I used them all the time on my Passat here.. Its real humid here in the mornings and there is DEW on all the windows so we DO use this feature alot here in FL. I remember on the Passat you would turn them on, and they would would get hot real quick. On the GTI, NADA! :confused:

Its been in the 70's at night and high 80's during the day here this week.

I checked the manual, and only says to acctivate the mirror heat move the switch to the heat possition.

[Oripaamoni]

this is interesting becuase when i was looking at the long code for the central electronics module i noticed that it was set to inactive. im going to try activating it and see if it changes anything.

[tydale3]

they wont come on unless its cold enough to need them, would be my guess,

[bennylenny88]

have you tried pushing the thing towards the picture?

[bigdyno]

Try rotating the knob all the way to 12 o'clock (the position of the little squiggly lines). That is what I need to do to get mine to opperate...

[quailallstar]

Try rotating the knob all the way to 12 o'clock (the position of the little squiggly lines). That is what I need to do to get mine to opperate...

I'll try this and give it a shot.

[newtogolf]

thats all u need to do. couldnt really angle it properly cos i snapped it from my phone

[awilson529]

I'll try this and give it a shot.

Are you saying you didn't do that already?

That's why the heater didn't turn on :laugh:

[quailallstar]

Are you saying you didn't do that already?

That's why the heater didn't turn on :laugh:

hahaha Yeah I know how to turn the heated mirrors on...they just dont work. Funny though..I used my vag-com and when I checked the box that said "heated sidemirrors installed" and tried to transfer the coding, it would not take the long coding. Hmmmmmm I think somethings missing from the factory (again!).

[awilson529]

In that case, take it to the dealer.

[FastLane]

Mine work :). Work good too.

[quailallstar]

Yeah to the dealer the car goes. Also I'll have them look at the squeaky drivers seat.