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Daytime Running Lights
berlin2011
 

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RE: Daytime Running Lights

(14-08-2011 10:11am)vinny Wrote:  do you know if the fog lights fitted to the evoque are led as well?

Quoted from the sales material

"These advanced front fog lamps are beautiful as well as practical. Discreetly set into the front bumper, their distinctive LED light-blade looks add a jewel-like presence."

So yes.

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14-08-2011 10:19am
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Gthornton
 

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Post: #12
RE: Daytime Running Lights

Its usually a matter of just going into the dash menu and selecting on/off. This is the case for my Merc and our 500. When you board the channel tunnel you have to have lights off so I was under the impression DRL's should always be user configurable for these types of circumstances.

I could - and have been known in the past to be wrong though....!

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14-08-2011 10:47am
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griff
 

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RE: Daytime Running Lights

The law was set in 2008 and passed in 2009 with an effective date of 7 Feb 2011 with trucks and coaches coming in from 2012. The directive actually states that type approval must be refused for new cars if DRLs are not fitted by that time so manufacturers have been fitting them on new cars manufactured to coincide with the Feb cutoff point as it also applies to new cars from that date. All cars produced will have to have DRLs on from 2012 no matter what date they were type approved. I am not sure but I think the actual official launch date of the Evoque is 8th September so the DRL will be compulsory as it is a new car. However if I'm wrong I am happy to be corrected.
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14-08-2011 11:17am
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defender_uk
 

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RE: Daytime Running Lights

They are compulsory apparently...and thanks goodness for that. One of the few sensible things to come from EU. Fed up of foul weather and idiots having no lights so u see them not until they are on top of you...and the same in the bright sun!

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14-08-2011 05:22pm
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benzina
 

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RE: Daytime Running Lights

I'm still not clear on this. In Australia DRL's are not compulsery, but from all the Evoques i've seen, they are enabled and on.
Now,as it's been mentioned, it's a dealer enable/disable thing, so if i prefer to use DRL's on command only (and thus have the dealer disable the constant setting), then is their a DRL/Parking light switch for me to activate them on command? Thanks in advance.

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14-02-2012 02:29am
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PhilB
 

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RE: Daytime Running Lights

(14-02-2012 02:29am)benzina Wrote:  I'm still not clear on this. In Australia DRL's are not compulsery, but from all the Evoques i've seen, they are enabled and on.
Now,as it's been mentioned, it's a dealer enable/disable thing, so if i prefer to use DRL's on command only (and thus have the dealer disable the constant setting), then is their a DRL/Parking light switch for me to activate them on command? Thanks in advance.
Think you will have to have a chat with your dealer.
On BM's its a simple case of going into the menu and doing it.
The manual says its a dealer job so I don't know if they would do it through the main menu with some sort of code that you can get from them to re-enable the DRL's or if you would have to go back and get them to get them back on.
On Uk spec cars there is no switch to activate/de-activate the DRL's.

As an aside, there is no legal requirement to have DRL's on in the UK.
Type approval says they must be fitted but UK law has not been changed making their use compulsory.
So if you get the dealer to switch them off you will not be breaking the law.
If you want to go to Europe however, you will need them activated.

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14-02-2012 10:48am
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BFGEvoqueMan
 

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Post: #17
RE: Daytime Running Lights

But why would you want to switch them off, surely they make you visible to other road users (and thus increase your safetyConfusedConfused

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14-02-2012 11:03am
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benzina
 

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RE: Daytime Running Lights

(14-02-2012 10:48am)PhilB Wrote:  Think you will have to have a chat with your dealer.
On BM's its a simple case of going into the menu and doing it.
The manual says its a dealer job so I don't know if they would do it through the main menu with some sort of code that you can get from them to re-enable the DRL's or if you would have to go back and get them to get them back on.
On Uk spec cars there is no switch to activate/de-activate the DRL's.

So are the DRL's on the Evoque, also serving as the parking lights,or are their separate parking lights with an on/off switch?
If the answer to the above question is that the DRL's are the parking lights aswell, then i would have to leave them on constant working mode, as their is no cabin on/off switch for the DRL's.

BFGEvoqueMan, i prefer to have control over the DRL's and manually activate them according to conditions,and also not be in a ''Look at me!!!'' state all the time.

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14-02-2012 12:11pm
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RacingSnake
 

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RE: Daytime Running Lights

by parking lights, do you mean when you park up (on the street) and you want to leave some lights on so that oncoming cars can see you?
Or do you mean coming home lights?

if the former, then it has nothing to do with the DRL's, as the function is purely to have the lamps activated whilst running at all times. For parking (in previous cars), you leave the headlamp switch on and push the indicator in the direction of which light you want to remain illuminated..... I'll need to resort to the manual again to check that on the evoque.

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14-02-2012 12:35pm
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benzina
 

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RE: Daytime Running Lights

Parking lights in the old school meaning where you have secondary minor lights on the front,and lighted rear lamps,thus lighting all 4 corners. (Used mainly for as you say parking on the street side, or at dusk.

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