Post by csd on Oct 17, 2023 12:21:04 GMT
Hi everyone,
Hopefully someone can give me some help in achieving something that I find important (safety wise, as I believe that the existing vehicle configuration does not offer sufficient visibiliy while using the rear turn signals).
I have a 2019 VW Passat B8 (variant/kombi) with LED headlights (the Low version, without projectors) and LED tail lights.
I do not have for the moment a VCDS interface, however, I do have a PLX Kiwi 3 OBD adapter that I bought many years ago that still works, and an app from iOS store that allows me to modify most of the lighting blocks as a VCDS one would do (AB, CD, EF, GH, along with their settings).
I have managed to enable the rear strips to work as DRL in “Auto” mode. Some sort of Scandinavian DRLs for the tail lights. As I did not had a VCDS to just tick a toggle for this, I had to do some changes in 4 blocks? (is this the right word?) combining a miriad of sources from various forums and groups online.
The modified blocks were:
The inner part
Leuchte16BLK SLB35BLK
Leuchte17TFL R BLK SRB3TFL
and the outer part
Leuchte23SL
Leuchte24SL
So far so good. The rear DRLs are always ON while the the switch is in the “Auto” mode.
In addition to the above, what I want to achieve is something like US style turn signals, BUT, keep the rear DRLs at a lower intensity between the flashes, otherwise the tail light will be absolutely blank/dark for a fraction. This in addition to the yellow/amber turn signal that must go with the DRLs.
Current setup: only the amber/yellow signal works, as of factory.
A similar setup that I want to achieve, though it's on a different vehicle but with the same principles:
