Spoiler Alert: Literally

[apperception]

Hi Kids,

After recently being creamed in my A7 Comp by someone who ran a red light, I purchased a beauty here on AZ. Love it and it's currently having phat stereo installed. One problem: I somehow must have exceeded 85 mph and when the rear spoiler deployed I got an error message on dash and the illuminated exclamation point. Yes, my first literal spoiler alert. Later, it took a couple of up and down attempts and a final push with my hand to get it to it's usual position. I'm not an engineer or physicist, but I rarely find mysely yearning for more downforce. It looks like the fuse is shared with the sunroof and after a forvm search, I couldn't find a VCDS tweak. Any way to simply disable it?

Larry in Georgia

2018 A7 Competition, 2018 Tesla Model 3 (wifey), 1967 Chevy C10, 1964 Fordson SuperDexta tractor

Past Audi:
2017 A7 Competition (totaled)
2009 A4Avant (wifey)
2003 S8 one Avus, another Ming
2001 S8
2001 A6 2.7T MT6
1991 V8Q MT5
1990 100
1986 4KQ
1982 Coupe

Past P cars:

2006 997S
1989 964 (with 993 engine swap)
1993 RSA (mit kompressor)
1988 Targa

Dozen or so Alfa Romeo, three Volvo V8



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[Audisthesia]

Without having an A7 locally I can look at... I'd say find in VCDS where it says rear spoiler installed and uncheck it. That will disable it without any errors.

[MattyMarkey]

Quick interweb search resulted: "To disable the spoiler, simply untick the box that says "rear spoiler installed" in the long coding helper in both module 17-instruments (byte 5 bit 1) and also in module 46-central conv. (byte 6 bit 7)."

[Audisthesia]

Quick interweb search resulted: "To disable the spoiler, simply untick the box that says "rear spoiler installed" in the long coding helper in both module 17-instruments (byte 5 bit 1) and also in module 46-central conv. (byte 6 bit 7)."

Thanks for providing the specific code locations MattyMarkey !