Cuzoe
Autocross Champion
- Location
- Los Angeles
Only the Driving Mode and Start/Stop button are connected to the BCM. And Byte 15 has the bits for both of those buttons. Start/Stop button also has the orange LED but there is no option for it to "not" be active.Factorty was Bit5 ticked....Bit7 not ticked.....build date was late Sept 2014yr..so a "2015yr" model.....I thought the CANgateway & the central electronics modules don't need to know what buttons are installed, re the ESC & TPMS as its only an AUX switch, so as you say it was factory ticked for "driving mode" button installed ...
Its silly...like you say only other option is de-pin...& I have the all the Erwin stuff for my car so I'll look at the de-pin option....
I also had a go a setting (as per normal, not VCDS) the driving mode button to normal...drove car & you could feel the difference in steering & throttle from how I normally have it.....so set it back "individual" where I have it all in "sport"...& have cycled the ignitions, locked car left it a day etc, & it still feels the same i.e. "individual"..& not "normal".....so mine appears to hold the "individual" settings.......
As far as the driving modes... some settings are saved and some are not. The argument was never that nothing is saved. It's just false to make a blanket statement that any car holds the individual settings. It will be true of some settings and it will not be true of others. If your car was DSG the DSG would not ever start in Sport.
In every dataset I've seen the steering setting is saved, so that's not surprising. Erwin descriptions (that you posted) says there's no difference in engine settings between Normal and Sport , just that Eco reduces performance. Of course it's possible that throttle response changes and is just not mentioned in Erwin. Throttle response isn't something I think VAG would care about returning to "normal" anyway (no matter what the "response" is a person could just press the pedal all the way down). And cars without driving modes from factory are always in Normal.