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DRL

Posted: Thu Sep 16, 2010 10:26 pm
by Bradders109
I believe these were an option (if wrong forgive me) If so, my car has the button - what's the point of drls? Can't seem to grasp why you would need to spec them - is there anything special about them.

Cheers Dunc

Posted: Thu Sep 16, 2010 11:09 pm
by 'R'e'S'pect_4
standard on RS4's.

point ? greater visibility i guess in daytime

well look at Volvo, been using them for years ! :wink:

Posted: Fri Sep 17, 2010 7:09 am
by neckarsulm
Standard on RS4s
DRLS are a legal requirement for new cars from 2011
Lots of info here and pic of a "council house at Christmas" A5
http://www.theaa.com/motoring_advice/sa ... ights.html

Re: DRL

Posted: Fri Sep 17, 2010 9:51 am
by PetrolDave
Bradders109 wrote:I believe these were an option (if wrong forgive me) If so, my car has the button - what's the point of drls?
As already said DRLs were standard on the RS4, and DRLs will be a legal requirement on all new cars from 2011 so it was Audi getting ahead of the game.

Why DRLs? Supposedly to make cars more visible during daylight. We had a (longish) debate about them on here a while back - I'm in the camp that thinks they can make motorbikes more difficult to see so I don't like them, but others have the opposite view.

RE: Re: DRL

Posted: Fri Sep 17, 2010 10:10 am
by Bradders109
Thanks - well I turned them on anyhow, btw a few years back I did an advanced driving course in an S3 and I used to drive with my lights on in the day and the instructor told me to turn them off - they were xenons, but considering all the LEDs Christmas trees out there now, no worse.

Dunc

RE: Re: DRL

Posted: Fri Sep 17, 2010 12:38 pm
by sonny
whenever I drive through certain areas in London I always turn my DRLs and even headlights, just so that the illegal immigrants who drive with out insurance (1 in 4 have insurance) have a better chance of spotting me.