Turning lights

Vertigo1 · Mar 1, 2015

I've heard about these things before and have now noticed loads of VW's with them, primarily Golfs and Passats. This is the system whereby, when you turn a corner, it lights the fog light on that side, supposedly to illuminate the road.

Please tell me the A3 doesn't do this! It looks utterly ghastly - basically every time you turn a corner it looks like you're a double-tosser, i.e. not only do you like driving with your fogs on all the time but one of them is blown!

It just suddenly occurred to me "gawd I hope my car doesn't look like that every time it goes round a corner!" and there's no easy way to check. Can't say I've noticed any other A3s doing it though.

The Challinor · Mar 1, 2015

Hey, found a plus for S3's having no fogs anymore haha

andywil13 · Mar 1, 2015

Hahaha. I completely agree. The A3 has side lights in the headlight cluster. These work really well and actually illuminate the dark bits of road when parking etc. Not sure if this superior system is a part of an option package.

alistairm1 · Mar 1, 2015

The LED headlights modify the beam pattern when cornering. But as they also have all-weather rather that separate fog lights the cornering function isn't as glaringly obvious to the casual observer.

I'm not sure if the cornering lighting can be turned off permanently in MMI, or VCDS, though.

A3Kent · Mar 1, 2015

It's not on the A3 but it can be enabled using VCDS.

WetFishDB · Mar 2, 2015

alistairm1 said:
The LED headlights modify the beam pattern when cornering. But as they also have all-weather rather that separate fog lights the cornering function isn't as glaringly obvious to the casual observer.

I'm not sure if the cornering lighting can be turned off permanently in MMI, or VCDS, though.

Not sure they do on the 8V. It's a separate turning light that comes on and off I believe. You could fudge it off through VCDS, but it works really well so I'd personally suggest leaving it.

/dev/null · Mar 2, 2015

Really? I asked the question on here a while back and the general consensus was that it couldn't be. The reason being is that I had a courtesy car and found it very useful. I have to park to the rear of my house and it's a very tight turn to get it. If you're not careful you could clip the end houses wall or the one opposite and I found at night the cornering lights were great at lighting that area up. I think they're a bit pointless for turning at a normal junction though.

WetFishDB · Mar 2, 2015

/dev/null said:
Really? I asked the question on here a while back and the general consensus was that it couldn't be. The reason being is that I had a courtesy car and found it very useful. I have to park to the rear of my house and it's a very tight turn to get it. If you're not careful you could clip the end houses wall or the one opposite and I found at night the cornering lights were great at lighting that area up. I think they're a bit pointless for turning at a normal junction though.

I meant they could be fudged off through VCDS, can't turn on a light that isn't there

WetFishDB · Mar 2, 2015

/dev/null said:
Really? I asked the question on here a while back and the general consensus was that it couldn't be. The reason being is that I had a courtesy car and found it very useful. I have to park to the rear of my house and it's a very tight turn to get it. If you're not careful you could clip the end houses wall or the one opposite and I found at night the cornering lights were great at lighting that area up. I think they're a bit pointless for turning at a normal junction though.

I meant they could be fudged off through VCDS, can't turn on a light that isn't there

A3Kent · Mar 2, 2015

veeeight · Mar 2, 2015

FAQ on Tuning/Cornering Lights:

http://www.audi-sport.net/xf/thread...stions-on-the-8v-chassis.198794/#post-2286161

/dev/null · Mar 2, 2015

A3Kent said:
It's not on the A3 but it can be enabled using VCDS.

WetFishDB said:
I meant they could be fudged off through VCDS, can't turn on a light that isn't there

Ah, my question was whether the fogs could be made to do this, which is what a lot of cars use. However apparently they're different bulbs.

WetFishDB · Mar 2, 2015

/dev/null said:
Ah, my question was whether the fogs could be made to do this, which is what a lot of cars use. However apparently they're different bulbs.

Sorry, my bad. No idea if you can turn fog lights on (not my cup of tea and have the LED's so impossible either way) and therefore I haven't looked.

*With LED's there are no fog lights at all, they have 'all weather lighting' or whatever that does. It seems to project the light as fogs would do, but they seem to come from the main cluster.

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