No High Beams?

[blue28]

Problem is my high beams do not work at all. I did search this problem and for all the results I found their high beams would work when pulling the stalk back and not when you push the stalk forward. Mine is different, they don't work in either position. I also do not get any indicator on the dash when I have the high beams on. Obvious thought would be the bulbs are bad but shouldn't I still be getting the indicator light on the dash if there wasn't any other issue? Car has been like this since I bought it 2 months ago so I don't have any background on how this started.

[aluthman]

Halogen or bi-xenon? My first guess is that someone upgraded the car to bi-xenon and didn't hook up the high beam wires or hooked them up wrong. There is also Vagcom coding required if the car did not originally have bi-xenons.

[blue28]

These are halogen.

Turns out the vagcom I bought when I had my mk6 GTI doesn't work on this platform as I found out the other day

[aluthman]

I would still check the vagcom coding to see if maybe they were coded for a set of bixenons that the PO may have had in the car. Also, make sure to check your bulbs if you haven't already.

[mfdk]

I had he same issue when i bought the car, not exactly sure what happen or what the previous owner did, but i used my vagcom to make my headlights work in European style and that brought back my high beams and don't ask me why/how but it worked for me.

[mfdk]

I would still check the vagcom coding to see if maybe they were coded for a set of bixenons that the PO may have had in the car. Also, make sure to check your bulbs if you haven't already.

More then likely they were coded for bi-xenons, probably the same thing happen to my car.

[blue28]

I guess I'm buying a new vagcom cable

[mfdk]

I guess I'm buying a new vagcom cable

or find someone who can do it for you..!

What part of NJ are you located..i will be in NJ for Christmas and i might be able to help you.

[blue28]

bumping my own old thread instead of making a new one

So I got my vagcom cable and I can't seem to fix the issue. Does anyone have any ideas what codes to try? The coding before I changed anything was '00003'. I switched it to '01001' to see if the euro headlights would work. That feature did work but the high beams still would not come on. I went into the Test Outputs function and I was able to get both highbeams to come on that way. Reminder, these are halogens. Thanks