polo driving lights

**pologti18t** · 12-01-2011, 12:10 PM

For once and for all

Fog Lights ARE NOT Driving lights. They are completely opposite in their intended function.

For a definition:
Fog/Driving lights and DRLs - NRMA Motoring & Services

**alias_vw** · 12-01-2011, 12:20 PM

...and driving lights are not daytime running lights (DRLs).

Not sure about the other models in the 6R Polo lineup but the non-xenon equipped GTI uses the low-beams as DRLs.

**pologti18t** · 12-01-2011, 03:27 PM

Originally Posted by alias_vw

...and driving lights are not daytime running lights (DRLs).

Not sure about the other models in the 6R Polo lineup but the non-xenon equipped GTI uses the low-beams as DRLs.

Actually i think they use the highbeams (H15 bulb).

**alias_vw** · 12-01-2011, 07:34 PM

Originally Posted by pologti18t

Actually i think they use the highbeams (H15 bulb).

Nah, it's the low beams (and both high and low beam in the GTI use H7 bulbs).

**darkfriend** · 12-01-2011, 09:47 PM

Thanks everyone.
So the answer to my original question is:

No, the TSI Polo does NOT have daytime running lights!

Bugger.

**jaedencook** · 13-01-2011, 09:58 PM

Well im going to add my own 2 cents..
Polo with sports pack doesn't have daytime driving lights no but it does have driving lights. For me they are only active when the headlights are on, when I turn the wheel left or right the corresponding Fog light switches on and is aimed slightly more at an angle than my headlight itself.
I get pulled over by Police when turning corners all the time because they think i have a single foglight on which is illegal in QLD unless driving conditions require them... bah

**alias_vw** · 14-01-2011, 06:42 AM

Those still aren't driving lights (as pologti18t says and the link explains, fogs are not driving lights).

What you have is a Comfortline with Sports Pack which uses the fogs as static cornering lights.

**polodrivercom** · 15-01-2011, 09:49 PM

As far as I'm aware, all new Polos have daytime running lights in the headlights (with the exception of the BlueMotion which has them in the bumper where the fogs are) in the UK at least. new laws coming in 2012 which make them mandatory.

Rich

**BR @ ON** · 17-01-2011, 05:59 AM

Originally Posted by polodrivercom

As far as I'm aware, all new Polos have daytime running lights in the headlights (with the exception of the BlueMotion which has them in the bumper where the fogs are) in the UK at least. new laws coming in 2012 which make them mandatory.

Rich

Thanks and I would much prefer it as well, But in Australia we do things differently, and outdatedly ...