I know there is a retrofit option to get access to the trip computer by changing the wiper stalk and doing some VAGCOM coding, however, since the trip computer already exists, I'm interested in the following:

1. Is there any way of accessing the trip computer info via some "hidden menu options"? (With BMWs there is a combination of buttons that you press to get access to that info - does the Audis also have this "hidden" capability?)
   
2. Is there any way of replacing the info displayed on the top of the DIS? I currently have the non-color DIS that displays RADIO/CD info - I would like to see consumption data instead - is there some VAGCOM coding that can be applied to change the type of info that can be displayed?

Thx

 

no to both, from what I am aware....
i just did the upgrade, not that bad and worth it, I suppose?

 

In 2006 Audi made the trip computer part of a $1700 tech package. It had been standard. It was brought back in 2007 as part of the premium package after a number of reviews basically handed Audi their bum, in regard to that little stunt. Multiple reviews brought up the deleting the trip computer as standard, and charging $1700 for it, when other cars in the A4's class had the trip computer as standard. Consumer reports even had a fancy name for what Audi did in it's May 2006 review of the A4. Heck, even my 2000 Jetta GLX even came with that same trip computer.

 

Rats !