Seat Ibiza (64 plate) light

[Fintious maximus]

Hi all, my son has recently passed his driving test and bought a nice Ibiza as his first car. He’s been at work today and left his lights on so had to call me when he finished work as his battery was flat. Is it easy to rewire the headlight switch so that the lights go on and off with ignition?

 

[Sackmycook]

a lesson learnt ? I'd leave it

 

[Fintious maximus]

I’m sure he has learned the lesson - just thought if it easy to do I’d alter the wiring to the ignition on?

 

[Sackmycook]

No buzzer when he exits the vehicle ?

 

[Paynewright]

Canbus style vehicle wiring is pretty complex - I’d leave well alone!

Most modern vehicles have buzzers / bongs for lights on / key in ignition when the door opens

 

[JumpShip]

Yeah surely this 'should' have a warning buzzer to avoid such issues , maybe this is worth exploring/rectifying first before looking to alter anything.

 

[dubber36]

Warning buzzer and/or a jump pack.

In those cars, if you leave the headlight switch in the dipped position, the side lights stay on when you take the key out. It may be possible to code it so that in the dipped position all lights turn off, but still retain the parking light function in the 'side' light position or with the indicator stalk like many other VAG cars. I'll have a look on our Polo when I get a chance.

 

[dubber36]

- just thought if it easy to do I’d alter the wiring to the ignition on?

Then he'd have no parking lights.

 

[mmi]

left his lights on

I guess it was just side ligths.
You could check if you could utilise the T6 vtweak below

Post in thread 'VCDS Tweaks.'

22 Apr 2018

To complement @Robert 's verified tweaks earlier in this thread, here two more verified from VCDS codes list

Early T6's (up to some point year 2017) seem to leave their parking lights on if light switch is "ON" and ignition key is removed.

To make that go away and turn parking lights OFF when ignition key is removed (no need to turn light switch off):

Byte 24 Bit 0: when ticked ("1") Parking light OFF with low beam and S-contact OFF (Standlicht AUS bei Abblendlicht und S-Kontakt AUS)​

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To turn tail lights ON with DRL (of course...

• mmi

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Yes, it's T6 but Ibiza of that era is electrically the same as VW Polo - which is electrically the same as T5.1, which is almost the as T6. All of them having PQ25 family of BCM.

 

[dubber36]

I was thinking about this whilst driving around today. I'm sure we are all guilty of this from time to time as parents, but why do we feel the need to do things to negate the mistakes that our kids make? They'll never learn to take responsibility for their actions or be able to do things for themselves if we carry on doing all the thinking for them.

 

[John A]

I guess it was just side ligths.

I'd go with that too - the dipped headlights should go off with the ignition, but test it yourself to be sure.