Bi-Xenon issues GTI6

[Mk6 GTI]

I noticed in some photos that there is a small hexagonal light underneath the xenons but in other photos they are not visible. Does anyone know if these lights are standard on Oz spec cars with xenon?

Yes they are standard.. Would have been nicer if there were replaced with LEDs! But anyway..

[hooba]

They're commonly called parking lights.

How good are those Germans, thinking up all this new technology?

[niulf]

So its designed to have the low beam on and also rear parking lights? :|

Yes. The guy told me the lights must be on when driving a car in Europe. He mentioned they are working on it to make sure the lights can be turn off for Aussie customers and it might be done during my next service.

[Sute]

I'm personally not sure what the fuss is about. Would i prefer a LED strip as my DRL's, sure, but since I don't have that (not that I have Xenon's either anymore due to driving a Polo GTI) I just use my headlights in the on position. Having headlights and rear parking lights on during the day is good for visibility of your car. Fleets who have this locked on also (used to? still do?) get lower insurance premiums due to the well known safety aspects of this.
So if I owned a GTI with Xenons, and it didn't have a DRL function, I'd be just turning them on anyway.

The fuss is about - not being able to turn off you lights (front & rear) ever, and being told that this is how the car was designed and that VW is currently working on a solution.
If the setup was right, I'm sure they wouldn't even think about 'working' on a solution.
No other EURO car has DRL's (Front & back) enabled at the moment.

[oshuyi]

vw cars are known to have electrical issues with their cars, so this is just one of them.
i just hope the goft R won't have this issue

[Corey_R]

I'm sorry, but you can HARDLY call this an 'electrical issue'.
This is by design because it is LAW in Europe.

So sure, in response to Sute, VW Australia are seeing what can be done to allow Australian customers to turn it off, since it isn't a law (yet) in Australia. But lets not go making this a huge issue or labling it something it's not!

[MkVIGTI]

So am I correct to assume that in the normal golfs you can turn the DRL off but in those with Xenons you can't? I would be expecting mine in a week or two...

[Corey_R]

Correct MkVGTI, that is the situation at this time.

[shaq]

I wonder if anyone else (with Bi-xenon’s) has the same issue.

No matter where you leave the light switch (0, Auto, Park, Lights), the low beam + rear lights are always on.

The dealer told me that they have informed the VW about this and apparently they are already working on a fix.

I know they have the DRL feature but they are the tiny lights housed under the xenons.

Sute: Which dealer did you call?? Cause I have the same issue.. and i really want them turned off !! Those globes are fricken expensive to replace... did you hear back? Cause if they have i want to go to the same dealer you went to get mine fixed under warranty..

[Maverick]

Sute: Which dealer did you call?? Cause I have the same issue.. and i really want them turned off !! Those globes are fricken expensive to replace... did you hear back? Cause if they have i want to go to the same dealer you went to get mine fixed under warranty..

Did you bother reading the thread first?

If $150 is friggin expensive you should rethink your choice of car. You spent $2000 on an option I assume for safety reasons but don't want to use them because you might have to pay $150 for a bulb after 2000-3000 hours (and as posted by Coreying on the previous page this is 70,000km to 105,000km).