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MK7 Golf GTE retrofit left clock issue fix, the definitive bullshit free solution.
Last week, I had a meet-up with a GTE driver who's driving a heavily customized MK7 GTE: R bumpers, extreme lowering, custom exhaust, a pretty extreme tune. Lovely! He visited my friend with a proble… 
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Releasing the MIB1 High Toolbox! (Discover Pro and Columbus)
Some time ago, I released a toolbox with all kinds of tweaks, scripts, dumps and imports for the MIB2 and MIB2.5 High models. (Find it here: https://www.drive2.com/l/541119975759282558/ ) I recently… 
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Adding a long coding editor to the Green Engineering Menu
Soon, you will no longer need OBD11, VCDS, VCP or ODIS or any other coding tool to change your long coding while you're on the road. I'm making a long coding assistant you can use inside the Green m… 
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Find the pencil!
A few weeks ago, me and meich started working on the installation of a new bumper-bar to be able to mount a facelift radar. However… the GTE-curse never leaves us alone! On a GTE, everything is diffe… 
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Hacking ambient color profiles part 2, the hacking continues!
So, last week I spent some time on hacking Ambient color maps for MIB2. If you didn't read about it, see here. I continued the research, and found out some more interesting things: — ambienceColorMa… 
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Hacking ambient color profiles (+ free 010 editor template for all to use)
I couldn't sleep… so I started working on a solution for everyone who wants custom color highlights inside their car, but don't have the facelift BCM… MK7.5 had an optional package for RGB ambient li… 
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Graphics modification part 1337: changing cursors.png
If you follow my logbook, you know I love to make small modifications to the infotainment. I made some more changes, this time to the cursors.png in the gemib folder. This file holds the graphics for… 
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Releasing the MIB2-High toolbox!
I decided to put some of my MIB2High research into a user-friendly package. Today, I've released the MIB2 Toolbox on my github page. It's a completely new set of green menu screens you can use for cu… 
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Working on a startup screen with the new VW logo
VW is coming with a new logo, so I thought the Discover Pro startup screen could use an update… Last week, I've also made a startup screen for GTI TRC, because VW didn't make one: And I gave thi… 
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Performance Monitor Android Auto 4.5 compatible! :-)
I just tested succesfully… it's compatible! :-) Version 0.8 will be released soon. There still some enhancements that need implementing and testing, but it's getting there. In the mean time, feel fre… 
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Playing around with the MIB2.5: full-screen maps and AID FPS display
Turning on average FPS in the upper left corner of the AID And setting navigation to full screen. This is not something I would want to have active all the time, but it's nice to see the entire sc… 
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Android Auto sound improvement experiment part 1
This could be interesting… After reading a topic about Android Auto sound quality on golfmk7.com, I decided to have a look a the AA configuration files on MIB2 to see what's up. And there seems to b… 
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Direct TPMS part 1
Part 1 of installing Direct TMPS to my car! Thanks to this guide which helped me a lot: https://www.clubseatleon.net/viewtopic.php?f=40&t=114152 The business end of the cable (I forgot to take… 
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Playing around with the Active Info Display
Some output tests on the AID, just for fun!
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Front camera / lane assist retrofit
With the help of friend and MQB-coding guru Meich, I retrofitted the facelift front camera. I'll let the images do the talking:
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New footwell LEDs
Some time ago, my footwell LEDs started flickering, which meant I had to get some new ones. I got the following: https://nl.aliexpress.com/item/2x-LED-Auto-interieur-Voetenruimtebekleding-Courtes… 
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Discover Pro Navigation update 2019/2020
There's a new map update! Get it here for your Discover Pro MIB1 and MIB2/2.5 http://infotainment-cdn.skoda-auto.com/base/maps/HIGH12_P177_EU_201920.zip
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Adding a custom graphic to GTE driving mode
Normally, on a GTE the GTE mode button enables only the GTE mode. This button, however, is nothing other than a driving mode button. GTE mode had no graphics or button, because this dialog is hidden… 
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What has been seen cannot be unseen…
I think VW made a mistake on the AID theme for Golf R… Something is wrong with 140,180,200 they are not italic like the others. And 260 is more italic than the rest, which makes the font cut into the… 
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