Metzga

Hey,
We just took delivery of our 2017 Q7 Prestige, glacier white, nougat brown, black headliner, black grey oak wood, towing, cold weather, driver assistance, adaptive chassis (1st one in OR with all-wheel steering), LOVING it!!!!

I was able to get the following VCDS mods done so far:

Disable seat belt chime

1. Instruments 17
2. Adaption 10
3. In drop down menu choose Deactivate seat belt chime
4. Change Deactivate seat belt from NO to YES

Needle sweep in virtual cockpit

1. Instruments 17
2. Coding 07
3. Long coding
4. Byte 1
5. Bit 0 activate/check

Enable lap timer

1. Instruments 17
2. Coding 07
3. Long coding
4. Byte 1
5. Bit 3 activate/check

No luck on HUD showing gears (even though I was able to change it to D on/S on), taillights on with DRL, adjusting LED brightness, disable start/stop, add ACC distance to MMI, etc.
I am using Ross Tech with 16.3beta so I am sure we will be able to do more in time.

I was just wondering if any of you were able to make any additional mods to the new Q7 yet.

Thanks

Update:
Change blinker cycles
46 central conv.
Adaption
Turn signal control-freeway flashing: flashing cycles
Old value is 3 (for 3 blinks)
I changed it to 4

Enable Automatic PDC Front
[09 – Central Elect.] [Coding - 07]
Select Long Coding Helper
Select Bye 37
Check Bit 1

Double beep on unlocking
46 central conv.
Adaption
sounder_settings-beeptime_opening_central_locking
change from NO_BEEP to DOUBLE_BEEP

RickObe

Are you using a hard wired RossTech or a Wifi version?

NABS4

+1. I thought the Q7 needs the wifi version. If not, that's great news.

bootnet

have you figured out how to program holding fob button to open and close windows and sunroof? that is by far the most useful vag I have ever done but I couldnt get it to work on my current A7 or Sq5 wondering if its possible on new q7

NABS4

Unless your A7 is a '16, there should be no problem with this programming. Also with the SQ5 there should be no problem. After making the adaptation change did you go back into the MMI and change the setting?

Metzga

I have the wireless Hex Net!

larryV

question, why does the Q7 require the wifi version?

or do you mean it requires the HEX-NET version via USB cable or wireless, because it is not compatible with HEX-CAN USB?

DirkM

Until recently HEX-CAN would not support the MLBevo platform. VCDS 16.3.1 beta ads some support for HEX-CAN via firmware update but is not backwards compatible with older versions of VCDS. Even HEX-NET is not fully compatible yet.

asm777

Thanks for the heads up! Hoping I won't have to buy another cable and can keep using my HEX-CAN cable for at least another few years. =)

BTW, here's the download link for anyone else that is contemplating this:
Ross-Tech: VAG-COM: Current Beta

larryV

Ah so this new 16.3.0 beta VCDS software allows compatibility of the HEX+CAN cables with MY2017 MLB Evo Audis but at the expense of installing new firmware on the HEX+CAN cable itself that renders it incompatible with older versions of VCDS as well as the current non-beta release of VCDS.

Interesting. Hopefully, it will have no other limitations so I don't have to buy a new $500 HEX NET.