Hi!

I havent been on here much, but I have searched everywere, but none seem to have the same problem i have.

I live in Sweden, and here its law to have low beam lights on 24h a day. But when I bought this new Fabia, everytime I start the car I must switch the lightswitch to get the low beams to light up.

This is VERY annoying, and I´m sure that I can fix it in VCDS, but I cant find any guide how to use longcoding. There is no help in VCDS for this car.

Does anyone know what I need to change to get this to work?

Regards

Andreas

Edited 1 December, 201015 yr by Andy*Cupra*

Hi!

I havent been on here much, but I have searched everywere, but none seem to have the same problem i have.

I live in Sweden, and here its law to have low beam lights on 24h a day. But when I bought this new Fabia, everytime I start the car I must switch the lightswitch to get the low beams to light up.

This is VERY annoying, and I´m sure that I can fix it in VCDS, but I cant find any guide how to use longcoding. There is no help in VCDS for this car.

Does anyone know what I need to change to get this to work?

Regards

Andreas

Hi Andy. I saw that you posted a similar question at the swedish skoda forum, no replyes there yet anyway.

Isn`t your fabia equipped with "daytime running lights", diods, something that look like foglights etc??? If so there has been a adjustment to the swedish laws. These adjustments claims that a car equipped with "DRL" produced after or in the year of 2010 (believe it was 2010) doesn`t need to have the low beam on, but as soon as it get dark you have to put in on.

Summering: Om du har DRL (står dock inget om det på Skodas hemsida) så behöver du inte ha halvljuset på dagarna. Många nya Audi m.m. som bara kör med sin "diod remsa" i fram = "DRL"

"Edit" Saxat ur skodas broschyr - De nydesignade främre dimljusen kan nu fås med integrerat varselljus" Varselljus = "DRL"

Edited 2 December, 201015 yr by Javerhammar

Hi!

I havent been on here much, but I have searched everywere, but none seem to have the same problem i have.

I live in Sweden, and here its law to have low beam lights on 24h a day. But when I bought this new Fabia, everytime I start the car I must switch the lightswitch to get the low beams to light up.

This is VERY annoying, and I´m sure that I can fix it in VCDS, but I cant find any guide how to use longcoding. There is no help in VCDS for this car.

Does anyone know what I need to change to get this to work?

Regards

Andreas

Hi Andreas, and welcome to the site.

I'm no expert on the new Fabia VCDS system but I'm not sure you can activate this feature for headlights using that method. Your Skoda dealer would be the best port of call to check this. However, your fellow countryman raises a good point about the Daylight Running Lights. If your laws allow them to be used instead of headlights, it's usually the case that they use less power than headlights and thus is better for fuel economy. Good luck with this and perhaps you would be kind enough to post back with any other information you learn about this as it could be helpful to others. Thanks!

Hi you should be able to turn the feature on by removing the fuse box cover under the steering wheel and pressing the drl switch on next to fuse box. On UK Elegance models it turns on lights next to fog light but on you models i would think it should be set up to turn on headlights.

Thanks for your replys,

You are all right, it is equipped with DRL, I understood that yesterday. But anyway (feel free to call me a old timer ) I want this to work the way I want it to.

I want headlights on and instrument lights on when I turn the engine on.

If I press the button under my steering wheel, I activate the DRL:s, but I dont want them

I have tried to talk to Skoda here in Täby, Stockholm, and guess what, no luck there

Anyway, do anyone have a guide to the long coding for this car?

Regards

Andreas