My FL Elegance is equipped with daylight driving lights but I can’t get them to come on using the instructions in the manual (what I’m reading is pull towards the steering wheel and up within 3 secs of turning on ignition using indicator stick).

 

Searching on here there does appear to be other people struggling.. am I doing it wrong or will this be a VCDS thing?

Mine was the same.

The instructions in the handbook are confusing as the procedure is called activating the DRLs. That is poor use of words and should be called switching the DRL's on and off.

In fact there is another procedure to activate the DRL's first. This is a software activation. I used the Carista app with an ELM 237 unit (see Amazon or eBay) plugged into the diagnostic port. When you buy an ELM unit, choose either a Bluetooth or wifi version depending on the phone/laptop/tablet etc you will use to run the Carista app.

 

Sounds complicated but is actually simple; just a matter of following a few simple procedures. You could do it with VCDS but that is a black art to me.
 

 

Cheers
So if you had the Octavia from new you wouldn’t have been able to use the DRLs without some kind of intervention?… seems weird.

 

I do have a cheapo OBD2 wifi thing what I used with my previous Octavia, I’ll look into whether it’s comparable to a ELM unit

Should that be ELM 327? Not getting any matches for 237

3 hours ago, jyeatman said:

So if you had the Octavia from new you wouldn’t have been able to use the DRLs without some kind of intervention?… seems weird.

 

I bought my 2012 car in 2015 and they had never worked until I activated them. If you use Carista then you can activate a few other things such using individual fog lights as cornering lights. The DRLs were not mandatory in 2012 so I guess they were put in as preparation.

Yes. the ELM number was my typo.

Thanks
So my cheapo “CAR DR” is a ELM327 device and I’m able to connect with Carista. DRLs appear to be enabled.. any particular setting I need to choose? Screenshot attached

Be aware that you need a certain version of BCM for the setting to actually work, you may need an upgrade.

12 hours ago, jyeatman said:

So my cheapo “CAR DR” is a ELM327 device and I’m able to connect with Carista. DRLs appear to be enabled.. any particular setting I need to choose? Screenshot attached

 

You will also have to set the second one in your list to yes and then turn on the DRLs using the handbook procedure you quoted earlier.

The description in the second of the list assumes you have a maxidot display but doing as I say is the same.

 

 

Edited 24 February, 20224 yr by pikpilot

Thanks. I don't have maxidot

I had to set the 4th one down in the list to yes too, now they’re on