Hello,

It seems daft to me that when I turn my side/ headlights on the Daylight Running Lights go off. Surely the more visible you are the better so does anyone know if it is possible to have them on all the time or whether there is a legal reason to turn them off when the sidelights come on.

I suppose you might need to turn them off when the fogs come on to prevent overheating the lamps/ lamp unit maybe?

Cheers

Simon

Why waste energy having them on when the glare from your headlights will make them all but invisible? And it is also perhaps the green thing to do. To not be wasting that energy having them on for nothing.

But even so I can't see the police stopping you for having them all on at the same time.

I thought the two lights being on at the same time would look pretty good, quite dramatic in a non glaring fashion, but I suppose I can see the point of them going off when the dipped lights come on. It would be nice to have the option of having both on at the same time as it may give a slightly fuller light and negate the need that some people have for upgrading their bulbs. Not the end of the world though.

With regards to overheating with the fogs surely if they are set to go off at the moment when dipped lights are turned on then they should be able to set them to switch off the moment the fogs are turned on?

Edited 1 November, 201015 yr by EdmundBlackadder

DRL's are designed to make it easier to be seen not easier for you to see.

Dipped headlights are brighter than DRL's so turning them on negates the need for both.

On some model's (mainly the Octavia vRS) the DRL's actually dim rather than extinguish altogether when sidelights are turned on. They only turn off completely when dipped headlights are turned on.