Astra H | 3 Things You Didn't Know

I will show you 3 features that many of us didn't know for a long time.

Feature 1: Hidden menu - You can find all sorts of information like Coolant temperature etc.
Feature 2: Fault code - You can see fault code on your display, without ani obd reader. If there isn't any fault codes, you wont see anything on display.
Feature 3: Coming home lights - Whane you come home in dark, you flash with lights and headlights and backlights will turn on for 30 seconds, so you can see in dark. Then they will automaticly turn off.

[ckn]

Press gas paddle and clutch paddle, so you make a screenshot

[kpt.ceckowitz]

that coolant temperature in the hidden computer is very useful since the genious German engineers didn't put the thermometer right into the control panel...

[cfq.tufanuf]

If you leave your window down, and have walked away from the car.... Hold down LOCK button on the key fob.
Also you can hold unlock to open windows. Good to let some heat out in the summer before getting in the car.

[sonntagskind]

maybe you can pin my comment: There is another nice feature when you have the climate-automatic: After you switched off the engine and pull the key out, you can press the "auto"-button on the climate-control. The astra will try to hold the temperature as good as it can.
The fan will stay on.

So in the summer, when there is a littlebit of cool air left in the AC, it will use it, and it will pump outside air into the car to prevent from overheating in the sommer. Very useful, when you just fetch some stuff from the supermarket.

In the winter it will use the heat of the engine to keep the cabin longer heated.

[rabine]

Do you know that windshield wipers has a custom rythm mode?
When pushing its lever up, you can chose between the 3 modes available; to get the timing that YOU want, simply disable windshield wipers, put the lever down once, and then, after the interval you want (not too long though...), Push it up again. It will work at that timing you did.

[sakgiok]

Just another not so widely known feature. If you turn off the car and pull the key out of the ignition, if you press the turn signaling lever either left or right, the corresponding front and back (Daylight running light and taillight) will stay on until you press the lever again. This (I think) is meant to be used if you park at night at the side of the road, on a spot without other lights, so traffic can see you car and avoid it.

[WillROgilvie]

I think that's been my fav design of Astra! I think it is still relevant for today : )

[adrianszczygiel]

First two are basically first things you learn after you buy Astra H :D But the 3rd one is really cool, I need to check it myself.

[hugobarthelemy]

Thx for the return home function, will change my life😂

[gvstxks]

They are doing well, since the early 2000's they've hidden a lot of solid reliable parts and simple designs they used to make!

[andrewlawson]

The functions you're never aware of, great video.

[mattballeste]

whattt have had mine for 8 years and there is a coming home at night function whhhaatttt

[banjo]

I have the same model and color, full option, leather interior abd heating seats, wonderful car.

[Lordosvk]

This change my view on opel. But so many people do not read instruction for their cars.

[mavrlik]

⚠ BEWARE ⚠ – in certain firmware versions, access to hidden menu causes random wake-ups of infotainment system if the vehicle is parked so the battery will be fully drained in 2-3 days! The way to reliably undo this problem is to disconnect the battery, wait a minute and then re-connect, so the infotainment is reset. (Then it is no longer in hidden menu mode. Hidden menu mode can be also switched off by the same button sequence as it is switched on, but I am not sure whether it is also as sufficient as disconnecting the battery to stop battery drain.)

I learned this hard way, when I used temperature indicator all the time using "hidden menu" trick and car mechanics were not able to find cause of my battery drains for several years. All circuits seemed to be OK. Once I stopped using this mode and reset the system, the draining issue "suddenly" disappeared.

[alanhadley]

Had this car nearly 3 years didn’t know about the lights staying on function but I don’t have a manual so thanks 👍🏻

[thepvporg]

Coming home function is more likely used to check that the headlights and rear warning lights work...

[rcflo]

Wow thank you so much for the Video, very usefull Tricks 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻

[Chriz.]

Also if you hold for a few seconds the Lock or Unlock button on a key fob - if you have electric windows they all will open/shut :) Works on Zafira, and im sure Astra too!

[romanmazur]

[PL] Jak ustawić częstotliwość pracy przerywanej wycieraczek? Pociągnij w dół by jednorazowo uruchomić wycieraczki. Czas między tym pociągnięciem a przełączeniem na pracę przerywaną będzie czasem między kolejnymi samoczynnymi ruchami wycieraczki.
[EN] How to set the intermittent frequency of the wipers? Pull down to activate the wipers once. The time between this pull and switching to intermittent operation will be the time between successive automatic wiper movements.