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    10-05-2012 08:48 AM #1
    I have a 08 Passat and i want to have the foglights as DRL.
    Is it possible to do it whitout a vag-com or something like that?
    If i have to use a vag-com is there someone who know på code for coding that?
    I have been searching on internet but i have not found it!

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    10-05-2012 10:42 AM #2
    yes. only with VAG-COM though.



    Use the CECM Long Coding helper, Byte 17, check bit 5

    this is cause the Scandinavian DRL's low beam become fogs. The other exterior lights are still on.
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    10-06-2012 06:22 PM #3
    For this to work do the fogs have to be plug into the cecm? Does our work with the relay type installation?
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    10-06-2012 06:39 PM #4
    yes, has to be connected to the CECM
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    10-06-2012 06:52 PM #5
    I figure that much....

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    10-08-2012 07:11 AM #6
    hey whats going on i did that to my 08 passat heres some pix of it. love the way the drls in the fogs look.


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    10-09-2012 01:52 AM #7
    looks good man I'm thinking of doing the same

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    10-10-2012 07:23 PM #8
    So for this to work you have to have Scandinavian or US DRL setting active? And then you also need to have byte 5 checked?
    I tried this a while ago when I installed my fogs and it did not work, but I did not do all of those other things I think...
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    10-11-2012 07:37 AM #9
    if DRLs are not enabled.... then you cannot make fogs as DRL, since DRL isn't enabled in the first place
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