3. The other I tried was increasing the intensity of the massage function—more oomph if you will. From having it in the D3, already better dialed up (and lots more massage types) in D4, but what the heck, more is better. I focused only on the highest setting (5), but all could be calibrated.
The default is 82 %. I entered 100% and tested it to confirm working. At 100% it does make more noise, which was most obvious when using VCDS when I am parked and shut off everything I can including MMI screen, tunes and HVAC. I drove it and found you can’t hear anything by freeway type speeds, and only when idling at a stop light with no tunes on and modest HVAC do you hear anything noticeable--faintly in the background as it cycles. I backed it off on a second pass to 90% which took some of the incremental background noise out of it even in quiet/idle type scenarios. Probably why factory maxed at 82%. Not a dramatic increase intensity by any means just to manage expectations. For further fine tuning, I may go into a combination of both level 4 and level 5, maybe bumping 4 to approx. 80 and 5 to 100 for freeway type use. Right now I basically always have it on 5 in use anyway, so might as well get a couple of more intensive choices that straddle the running/background noise condition variables.

See fifth picture for basic VCDS screen for this intensity change.