Wing mirrors

[hypnotic]

Hi all I am new to this forum.

I have a 2018 seat cupra 300 and when you lock the car the mirrors are meant to fold in automatically mine are not. I know you can keep hold of the lock button on key fob but like I said mine should fold automatically when you lock the car. I have tried to use my Autel scanner to try resit but couldn't find anything to do with mirrors.

Any help or advice would be fantastic

 

[serdar_18fr]

Hi all I am new to this forum.

I have a 2018 seat cupra 300 and when you lock the car the mirrors are meant to fold in automatically mine are not. I know you can keep hold of the lock button on key fob but like I said mine should fold automatically when you lock the car. I have tried to use my Autel scanner to try resit but couldn't find anything to do with mirrors.

Any help or advice would be fantastic

Not familiar with Autel but I can give you the steps to do it using OBD11. It should be similar in other configuration-capable diagnostics devices.

Go to the following setting:

Control units -> 09-Central Electrics -> Adaptation -> Spiegelverstellung -> Funk Spiegelanklappung Modus

The current value of this setting is most likely "by convenience operation..." in your car.

Change it to "by look command..." (It is meant to say 'lock', not 'look')

Write the change to control unit.

This should give you the folding mode you want.

Regards,
Serdar

 

[Bahnstormer_vRS]

Isn't there a setting in the Infotainment?

Guy

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[serdar_18fr]

Isn't there a setting in the Infotainment?

Guy

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There's a setting for turning the auto-folding on or off altogether but not for how/when it would be folded in or out.

 

[MartinThorn]

Hi all I am new to this forum.

I have a 2018 seat cupra 300 and when you lock the car the mirrors are meant to fold in automatically mine are not. I know you can keep hold of the lock button on key fob but like I said mine should fold automatically when you lock the car. I have tried to use my Autel scanner to try resit but couldn't find anything to do with mirrors.

Any help or advice would be fantastic

Are all your windows working 'one-touch'? ie. one touch and they go up/down. If not, for some reason the mirrors won't fold in when you long press the key fob. You can try calibrating the windows - wind them all down (one at a time obviously!) hold the button for about 3 seconds then wind them back up and hold for 3 seconds once up. After that the one touch window feature should start working then the folding mirrors should start working. Yes, it's a stupid system and the Seat/VAG engineer that thought that up should be thoroughly ashamed of themselves.

 

[Mr Pig]

I wouldn't want my mirrors to fold in automatically every time. It's a mechanical system and as such has a limited life. Also, the car does not know if the mirrors are frozen. Those poor little motors will strain to move a stuck mirror. It'll break sooner the more often it's used.

 

[nd-photo.nl]

I wouldn't want my mirrors to fold in automatically every time. It's a mechanical system and as such has a limited life. Also, the car does not know if the mirrors are frozen. Those poor little motors will strain to move a stuck mirror. It'll break sooner the more often it's used.

I thought I was the only one who is thinking like this. I disabled that immediately when I bought the Cupra haha

 

[Mr Pig]

I thought I was the only one who is thinking like this. I disabled that immediately when I bought the Cupra haha

I hate all this automating on functions that used to be under driver control. I don't want some idiot in an office deciding when my handbrake will come on thank you, I'm capable of thinking for myself. For example if I clear the snow off my car on a cold morning, the car automatically switches on the rear wiper when I reverse if I have used the front wipers. How does the car know that the rear wiper is not still frozen to the window? I know! Or when it switches on the front wipers for an extra sweep after I've used the washers. Multiple times the window has dried enough that all it does is smear dirt over the window.

They add these functions because it looks clever, it costs nothing and they can. Little thought seems to go into whether or not they are actually useful or a good idea.

 

[SRGTD]

I do have my door mirrors fold in automatically; had this feature on four of my last five cars and it’s always worked as intended. I am fortunate enough to be able to park my car in a garage when I’m at home, and the car is rarely exposed to overnight frosts, so maybe that’s why I’ve never had any issues with frozen mirror motors. I also find it useful to be able to fold the mirrors in at the press of a button as I drive into my rather small garage to give me a little extra width and not clip the mirrors on the garage door frame.

I do agree 100% though on some of the other questionably ‘useful’ features that manufacturers force upon us. I hate keyless entry with a passion. My car locks when you walk away from it and unlocks on approaching it; that ‘useful’ feature was disabled when I got home from picking up my car on day one of ownership; is it that much of a hardship to press a button on the key fob to lock and unlock the car? The single sweep of the rear wiper when selecting reverse gear was also disabled. Diamond cut alloys is another pointless feature forced on us by most car manufacturers - poor durability, susceptible to white worm corrosion, more expensive to refurbish than a good old powder coated alloy and easily damaged by tyre fitters. My car does have diamond cut alloys but certainly not by choice; if there’d been an extra cost option of a set of powder coated alloys when I’d bought the car, I’d have willing paid the extra not to have diamond cut alloys.

PS - off topic but prompted by the title of this discussion topic; my car has DOOR mirrors (a.k.a door mounted rear view mirrors) as do all modern cars; AFAIK wing mirrors haven’t been a thing since the 1970’s………...

Rant over……..

 

[MartinThorn]

I wouldn't want my mirrors to fold in automatically every time. It's a mechanical system and as such has a limited life. Also, the car does not know if the mirrors are frozen. Those poor little motors will strain to move a stuck mirror. It'll break sooner the more often it's used.

The mk3 Leon I thought doesn't do this unless you 'hack' the settings with OBDeleven (or something similar) - otherwise it only folds the mirrors with a long press of the lock key or by the physical rotating switch inside the car?!

 

[Mr Pig]

The mk3 Leon I thought doesn't do this unless you 'hack' the settings with OBDeleven (or something similar) - otherwise it only folds the mirrors with a long press of the lock key or by the physical rotating switch inside the car?!

No, as standard it doesn't auto fold. Which is odd as the Ibiza of the same age does.

 

[cuthound]

I wouldn't want my mirrors to fold in automatically every time. It's a mechanical system and as such has a limited life. Also, the car does not know if the mirrors are frozen. Those poor little motors will strain to move a stuck mirror. It'll break sooner the more often it's used.

I only activate automatic folding when I visit my youngest son and have to leave my Cupra on a busy residential street.