Bi-Xenon issues GTI6

[G-rig]

My S3 does the needle sweep thing at start up. It was cool for the first couple of weeks. Now I don't even notice it.

You could disable it but I don't mind it, pretty cool.

[Corey_R]

My S3 does the needle sweep thing at start up. It was cool for the first couple of weeks. Now I don't even notice it.

I took two R's for a test drive, and didn't notice either of them do the needle sweep... but apparently the R's do it... so go figure

[G-rig]

The demo R at highway did the needle sweep..

[Corey_R]

Oh... I'm sure it did. I'm sure the ones I was in probably did it too. It's just when you turn on the car and that rush of excitement flows through your veins, the last thing I noticed was what the bloody needles were doing

[Lams]

I turned off the xenon DRL for a mate but it still isn't right.
OFF is off, but AUTO means ON. Leaving home only works in AUTO mode (in mk5s it also works in OFF)

We can't take it out of two stage unlocking either, the option isn't in the MFD. The VCDS label file isn't developed yet, but I'm sure given time it would make things a lot easier in the future. We enabled the sweeping and it took a few key cycles before it worked, but like most people say here, you'd stop noticing it. It is just about the most pointless feature?

As for 'coming home', I'll go look up what I did to my mother's Eos which runs the mk6 electronics.

[Lams]

this is a halogen equipped Eos (which both my mother and I pointed out the halogens suck after having the bi-xenon in the passat)

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change to:
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I also had a play with DRL on the Eos, I was able to make the DRL function on the fogs instead of low beam, but yes the parkers and tail lights stayed on. Still, if the bi-xenon owners are concerned about burning expensive xenon bits, this could be an (illegal) option.

Yes the xenon parts should last 5 times longer than halogen, but when they fail, it is not fun. Our passat with at 72000km blew both the bulb and ballast on one side. Thanks to ebay, the repair was only $400 in parts and a few hours of my time, but if you pay VW to do it outside warranty you're looking at approx. $1500 as it's a headlight-out job!

Still, I'd option it without a doubt