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.

 

anyone?

 

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

 

Ok, perfect. Now to the wiring.....what switched 12V is there that I can tap into?

 

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

 

what did u recode exactly? i want to turn off my DRL's.

 

No not yet, will do at the next service at my mechanic's -- change the country to code to "other"