My DRL mod 10mm led

[daviesbike]

well i ordered a replacment part for a 2009 audi A6 instead of messing with the cheap ebay jobbies i modded my existing head lights to fit them inside they now look oem

pic's are not great but i was in a hurry to beat the rain that was fast encroaching sorry about that,

first thing i did was remove the head lights, and lenses ect,

cleaned them all up
mixed some epoxy resin up then fed the wires through the housing so they appear stock and there is no nasty bodged wiring look going on,
reassembled them after i tested that they were working with a battery of course then re fitted them back to the car
wired them up
and happy days

















they are quite bright and the camera has a real hard time capturing them they dont look right in the photo's but they are a really bright white lovely lights and they are now all built in to the housing

[Dezzy]

It looks like something from Star Wars. W.T.F. is it

[daviesbike]

haha thats the woman that lives across the road from me she collects wooden garden objects, that one happens to be a 6 foot pig pushing a wheel barrow made of oak

[sarg]

that is funny, would never noticed that.

Great mod too, looks superb.

I was wondering where your driver side windscreen wiper is though?

[Nollywood]

Good mod, just the way it should be done. I don't like the ones stuck in the lower grilles.

Did you upgrade to an S8 in the end? Your old car was an A8, right?

[HPsauce]

Dare I "nail my colours to the mast" and say that I'm really not a fan of DRL's.
I've got used to the old-style Volvo dim-dip lights, and while I generally think they're pointless at least they're not dazzling as many of the latest DRL's are.

I find them extremely distracting when driving on normal 2-way roads, they do much more than indicate where a vehicle is.

Now I don't know how many of these are add-on's as opposed to OEM but the majority of the ones I see are far too intense and bright, almost as bad as a full-beam headlight. I suspect this may partly be because they emit a lot of light from a small area, but equally what are the rules on alignment and brightness levels?

Some of the worst seem to be on the latest Audis and Mercs.

[Nollywood]

I think DRL's are great. I've had no issues with them being too bright. As far as I'm aware, there are no rules on alignment.

I don't find the lumen output that intense - I would imagine enough research has been carried out, to certify them as safe.

[HPsauce]

Marmite?

[Architex_mA8tey]

Its interesting to note on my A7 that the DRL's cant be turned off at all - there is no menu option in the settings on the MMI whereas on my A4 there used to be a way of turning them off if you wanted to. The only way they can be subdued is to put them on "sidelight" setting rather than "off" or "auto" and then they are at a lower intensity but the back tail lights are also on at the same time. . .

[Night Train]

Neil, would that be because DRL's weren't compulsory in the EU until this year?

just a thought...