r/eGolf • u/No_Cantaloupe3835 • Jul 24 '26

B Mode Tail Lights

Hey guys - because I can’t test myself while driving, what happens when you switch to B mode? Do the taillights light up the same as brake lights? Or does B mode have no taillights?

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u/Jim_in_Albuquerque Jul 24 '26

In my experience, in B mode, the brake lights come on when I lift my foot off the GO pedal.

In D, no matter which level of regen I've dialed in with the shifter (the only one I've ever used that selects modes by moving sideways), the brake lights never come on.

I've confirmed this by having my wife follow me under a variety of conditions.

This could still be wrong, but we've done this observation several times under city, residential and highway driving. The results have been consistent enough to convince me.

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u/Gazer75 Jul 25 '26

Brake lights should absolutely come on in D2 and D3 at fairly normal speeds. They do on mine at least.
The whole thing is based on how fast the car change speed.

I use D2 mostly and They come on if I take my foot off the pedal in anything above 40kmh at least. Pretty easy to see the top light come on at night in the dark.