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Old 08-10-2009, 09:39 AM
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I will apologize in advance, perhaps wrong forum, but did not find a place for this question anywhere else.

As many of you are aware, DRL's are required by law in Canada. But I cant stand how my allroad uses the parking lights + fog lights as the DRL. I want to change this by disabling this function with VAG-Com (as far as I know this is doable by setting the country code to the US spec) and introducing another light source for the DRL function - maybe an LED strip. BUT, and here is where the question comes in......do you know of a momentary switch that can be used for this?

What I was envisioning, is to have the LED strip come on automatically as the DRLs whenever I start the vehicle, but have the ability to disable/turn off the strip when not needed/wanted.....so the circuit should be 12V hot at all times with a switch that powers it off until next power cycle.

Is there such a beast? Is there a wiring schematic for this? Any help would be greatly appreciated guys.
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anyone?
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It has been done but it is a pain. I belive if you switch to us spec you will not have DRLS, and the rest is left up to the wiring
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Ok, perfect. Now to the wiring.....what switched 12V is there that I can tap into?
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I belive in the A3 section there is a guy that integrated his LED's into the headlight try searching for it, everything should be there
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what did u recode exactly? i want to turn off my DRL's.
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No not yet, will do at the next service at my mechanic's -- change the country to code to "other"
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