Daylight running lights and xenons.

[Ess_Three]

I think they look stupid during daylight hours.

I think the weak-ass yellow DRLs of the Halogen lights look stupid...but I don't mind the full Xenon.
But then the light units look a bit nicer too.

[Snoopy]

This works for Halogens but I don't think it works for Xenons.

It did seem to work on early cars but not on the later ones.

[Snoopy]

Update wow how time flys.

How to turn off the DRL when you have front xenons+rear lights+number plate lights as DRL's 
Drum roll 
The DRL are now off.

You need vagcom or VCDS or similar

Central electric---coding--->  long code helper
Byte 11 (Prob shown as hex 88) select it

A box below will come up
A tick box next to 'Daytime running lights via low beam' will be ticked. Untick it. click back, click 'do it'.
 Your DRL (front xenons+rear lights+number plate lights) will now go out.

 

[mac7]

^^

I've noticed quite a few cars lately (mainly TT's) running around in the snow and low light/visibility conditions with their front DRL's only - i.e. no rear lights. Seems a bit dangerous and it made me wonder if I could activate both front and rear as 'always on' over the winter period.

So do you think I will be able to activate front and rear lights as DRL's on the R in the same way?

[Snoopy]

I would think so as the R will have the other box that with the GTI refers to them as seperate lights. I expect the R has both options too.