"RDW" in vehicle description.
 

I know this question should probably be asked in the "Everything else" D2 section but there is more activity here so I thought I would get it answered more quickly. . . .

Can anyone shed some light on what "RDW" in the V8 4.2L 5V A8 RDW vehicle description means please. I'm guessing it has something to do with which market the car is sold in?

As always, any input greatly appreciated.

I think it might be ROW for Rest Of the World (ie not America)

This is what I thought but it's clearly a D in the ZF manual and also VCDS.

Maybe the guy who put this together could speak English but not write it very well: hence "Res Dov World" :)

Ha ha yeah, like the 'mistranslation' of the Mitsubishi Starion.

It means "Rest Der Welt". Translating to Rest Of World, like you said.

A bit of cut-and-paste for you:


09-Elec. Ctrl. Mod. K1 – KWP1281
VCDS works fine.

Tweak: Coding options for lighting Coding is 000XY.
X=1 for Xenon Headlights,
X=0 for conventional Halogens.
Country DRLs: Fogs w/o low beams:
Y=1 RDW (Rest of World) No Yes
Y=2 NDL (Netherlands) Yes Yes
Y=3 USA No No
Y=4 KAN (Canada) Yes Yes
Y=5 DAN (Denmark?) Yes Yes
Y=6 SON (Other?) Yes Yes
Fogs w/o low beams only appears to work on 2002 models. For 2003+ models, we know of no way to run the fogs without the low beams, except Canadian, which turns on Daytime Running Lamps (DRL's). We are not sure why there are so many Yes/Yes combinations; there must be some other features controller by this. The state of the Radio and Climate Control lighting is affected by this coding as well.