Brozee

Can you elaborate on what function changing it to US or why it's better to change it to ROW? I'm guessing you just want your city lights to be on when the "daytime running lights" option is enabled in the MMI?

Also bally, was going to txt you, but what is a good tire pressure to set the tires at. I heard something like 36 up front 34 in back? Don't mean to thread hijack; just a side note.

mishar

I am already at ROW and my DRL's are HID's.

ROW makes flash lights (halogens closer to the middle of the car) to work as high beam together with HID's.

Canada setting use fog lights as DRL's. I don't like that since I have HID's there too.

Best DRL's where on the old Ford. They used high beam bulbs at 40% power. They can last forever at that load and they are not used much anyways.

Mister Bally

Brozee, The pressure sticker shows different values for loaded vs. unloaded. I sometimes have the car fully loaded, and sometimes it is just little old me and mable a duffel bag and my laptop. I'm not big on adjusting tire pressures based on load so I average out the suggested pressures between loaded & empty. For the 19" wheels and tires I use in the summer; 38 psi all around and for the 17" wheels and tires I use in the winter; 36 psi all around. Since you rum 18" wheels, according to the sticker, 17" and 18" wheels have the same pressure specs. Not sure if the pressure specs are different for the standard wheelbase A8's.

Those pressures have never let me down and I sometimes do some pretty extreme maneuvers with the car.

Mister Bally

My bad; I thought Canada setting keeps the high beam halogens on at 40% as DRL's like your Ford did. Thus making the "parking Lights" not noticeable since the headlights are also lit.

My Beetle came with Daytime Running Lights which kept either the high or low beam at about 60% brightness so ther was no parking light function. Even though I'm a yankee. I took care of that by installing a Euro headlamp switch that allows parking lights only in place of DRL's and allows the fog lights to be switched on with only parking lights illuminated.

mishar

Don't buy this LED's. Both died in about 15 minutes. Chinese garbage.

jakematic

I was worried when you posted them.

Very similar ones nearly burnt down a friend's BMW...

Brozee

Thought that would happen. They looked very cheap and had way too many LED's on it anyway.

mishar

They don't LOOK cheep at all and they have exact number of LED's to consume 5W. Otherwise you need a resistor to avoid faulty code. They are just poor quality. I wonder if they are manufacturing them for some serious world company and those they are selling directly are some rejects. I really like the amount of light they produce.

Leftovers:



Reminders:

bmwm750

Friend of mine tried a bunch of these on his C5 A6 4.2, and quickly came to the same conclusion.

FlyTyinFool

Ouch, mishar, that's a bummer!!

Were you able to get the pieces out?