Who's got their DRL's on?

[am1w]

If I'm honest. I do like them
Only the black ones though, chrome ones look dire
If you need HIDs for them, I've got all the bits you'd need Surplus to requirements! Yours for the taking if you want them

Thank's Dan. You are a star. But I must pay you for them.
We'll talk when the time arrives. 

[DRC]

Ok buddy No worries, just let me know. They are in classifieds section aswell, when was you thinking to get those lights? I think they'll suit Wolfgang very nicely

[Snoopy]

Mine are off.
Why?
Because of the model year of mine, the DRL are the main front xenons on with the rear lights also on.
I got sick of the funny looks and people asking why i had my lights on in bright sunshine.
So i turned them off.

I don't mind people saying things 'why have you got your lights on' I'd rather hear that than 'sorry mate I didnt see you'



Jim

I had loads of people pull out on me when they were on, as i suspect they thought i had flashed them out. Were as since turning them off its not been an issue. (touch wood)

[Buck]

Mine are off at the mo as the yellow glow annoys me but I may switch them on for a change 
If I can find some better replacement bulbs then I wouldn't mind them being on

How's that? You can't see them. 

Ah but you see them reflected in the car in front when queuing and see others with theirs on and they don't 'add' to the look.

I wish there was a nice bright White bulb option for these

[jahilton2002]

not sure if i can link here if not plz remove

http://www.vwaudiforum.co.uk/forum/showthread.php?119064-Design-flaw-DRL-just-almost-got-me-killed.......again

but if i can't this was my first post..... since i turned them off, i've had no probs.

Design flaw? DRL just almost got me killed.......again

   

Hi guys gals, sorry for the long post


    Just wanted your opinions on the below matter..... Since getting my mk6 golf (1.6tdi s) I’ve almost been involved in 3 accidents where on every occasion the 3rd part has said
    “Sorry, I thought you flashed me”
    Unlike the higher spec golf’s, gti etc that have the LED DRL, I have the “main beam” style DRLs.
    The first occasion a little old lady failed to give way to on-coming traffic at a speed trap, which almost ended up us having a head on crash.
    She said sorry I thought you flashed me.......
    Second occasion somebody cut me up as I was overtaking them.
    He said, sorry I know I was in the wrong lane, but I thought you flashed me (he didn’t indicate)
    Today on my way home from work..... I ‘m driving in a 30 zone approaching a junction which gives way to me, with a young lad up my **** revving the poo out of this 1.plok saxo. Normally at this junction if it’s safe to do so I flash the vehicle waiting at the give way point. (I like to think I’m a Christian driver and have a 1 car rule). Because of the tit up my **** I decide not to do so.... I’m still doing 30mph. As I’m no more than 4 car lengths from the car in at the give way point, she’s looking straight at me and starts to pull out!!
    As I braked (quite hard) I looked in the rear view mirror to find the tit in saxo looking in his foot well! I sound the horn and the lady in front stops dead in the road right in my path. There’s no way I can stop in time I’m going to t-bone her. At this point everything is going in slow motion, and I’m amazed at how I managed to process everything so quickly. I took my foot of the brake and steered onto the wrong side of the road (luckily a bus had stopped at a bus stop a few yards before the junction stopping oncoming traffic).....
    As I thought “wow that was close, I heard the blood curdling noise of twisting metal..... The saxo had hit the other car!

    I pulled up to make sure everybody was ok..... They were.... thank god..... After I realised everybody was ok.... and it was just twisted metal I thought to myself..... Am I to blame for this.....
    As the police turned up.... he said “what happened” to the lady, she said “I thought the guy in the white car (ME) flashed me”
    To cut a long story short... the shopkeeper has CCTV which got the whole thing on tape..... After to cop reviewed it (I wasn’t allowed to see it)
    And he got statements of everybody..... I was told I wasn’t to blame..... That to lady and the lad in the saxo was.......!!!!!
    This has really unnerved me!!! If I drive over a bump in my car with its DRL on..... Does it really look like a flash???
    Can I disable the lights, or are they needed for Mots and the LAW....
    Could I retro fit some chav leds light strips that don’t look like main beams???
    Plz discuss.

[am1w]

Mr. Hilton, welcome.
I have read and re-read your very unusual post and I am trying very hard to make sense of your rather unnerving experiences.
I concluded eventually, after much soul searching, that you are jinxed and drive through areas populated with  morons. This has never happened to me so far and I thank my lucky stars.
Unfortunately, I cannot turn off my p1ss yellow DRLs due to some quirk in the electrics.
Your post is enabling me to even more seriously consider those £300 lights in Kenney's thread.
Here's hoping you don't have anymore near misses.

[Tone2have]

My Xenons are always on, it's just easier to leave the lights on auto. I do switch to side lights on the sometimes when I am motorway driving, just so as not attract unwanted attention (it's very noticable when you see a car with xenons in the distance behind you)

[GolfTi]

Mine are off.


I found them quite embarrassing. :embarassed:

[am1w]

Mine are off.
I found them quite embarrassing. :embarassed:

Even when I turn the light switch to the off position, the DRLs stay on. Mr P said this was normal. Anyway, I like driving with my p!ss yellow DRLs on as I am a very strange person with peculiar tastes. 

[GolfTi]

Yes, they'll be on even when switched off.

You need to disable them to avoid further embarrassment.

Left hand indicator and headlight flash and hold. Turn ignition on - it will beep after 3 seconds.
Page 64 of the manual. Make sure switch is set to off and not Auto when you do this.

Leave the DRLs to the Volvos, Saabs and now Audis. Most of the Golfs I see with them on are probably company cars and the drivers don't even know or care they're on, certainly can't be bothered to switch their light pollution off.