Rick.nazarian
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How difficult is swapping the pins ? About to order the vlands for my gti and want to fix the issue if i have to
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Vland / aftermarket headlight UU not working solution
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NewGuy1
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If you have the pin removal tool super easy. if you dont then a bit more difficult as you have to create your tool but not hard at all. As always there is a possibility of breaking a tab on the pins but i havent heard of anyone actually having that occur.
Don't mean to bump, but I recently bought these and the UUs worked out the box. What confuses me is the fact that they only come on when my headlights are on, and don't act as DRLs (I also have the error message), is there a way to fix these issues?
I read this whole thread and still can't seem to figure it out, I guess I'm just slow with this stuff. Thanks a lot in advance
I read this whole thread and still can't seem to figure it out, I guess I'm just slow with this stuff. Thanks a lot in advance
acidelijah
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You have to get the euro switch.
Will I need to disable anything, I've heard you need the take out the pin or use obd11 but I'm not sure if that's 100% necessary. Thanks again
acidelijah
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I have yet to get my euro switch but I will here soon, I wouldn’t think that necessary.
From what i’ve learned is that you have to get an extra trigger wire to run the UU’s as your DRL’s.
You can find the same exact wire used in the video on ECS for about $10 & the Euro switch is only like $15 on eBay.
NewGuy1
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Not exactly sure what you mean by "dont act as DRLs". By default after market headlights have the UUs attached to the parking lights pin (or are supposed to, if this was always the case this thread wouldnt be around). Meaning they will act as parking lights, the Euro switch will give your car additional lighting configurations by adding more selector options. That is typically how most people get the UU to be on while driving without the low beams on. This means that you will have a manual switch to change your lighting configuration.
However there is another option to get your UUs to act more like typical automatic DRLs. And that is to tap into the DRL pin, which is the pin 4 swap that is mentioned on this thread a few times. This has had mixed success and does not work for all as it seems like some hardware changes happened between the various years, in addition it often requires additional coding through OBD11/VAGCOM.
Hi all, i've just purchased these lights and tried fitting them to my Vw Golf Mk6 2011 TDI, I plugged the driver side headlight in without the adaptor and it works spot on, I then plugged the passenger side headlight in without the adaptor and everything works except the DRL's, I cant get them to light at all, I thought they were faulty but after reading all this wondering if mine need a pin swap but not sure how to do the pin swap and do I do it on the adaptors that's came with the headlights or to do it to the plug that's connected to my Golf, also is it best to swap pin 10 with pin 1 or pin 4 with pin 1 as I would like them to run as actual DRL's and not have to put my parking lights on for em to work. I do have a OBD11 but dunno if there's anything on there I can change to get them to work, any help is greatly appreciated
Was this on the adapter they supply or the harness on your car?
Hey there, joined this forum to say that these instructions helped me and solved my problems! Thanks OP! However given the number of additional questions and explanations in this thread I thought I'd try to help!
I have a stock standard Australian TSI 2012 golf mk6 (standard halogen bulbs, etc). The headlight switch for this is a euro-style dial that I usually keep on the "Auto" position.
I purchased these Vland headlights from the official vland ebay Australia store, and they came with 2x 10pin->10pin adapter plug.
When I installed these (and used the provided adapter) and when I kept the light switch on "auto", I had a dash error saying "check daytime running lights", I would have no DRLs activated! I would have to switch them to the parking lights to get both DRLs to turn on - and that's what led me to this forum! I wanted to keep using the auto light sensor and have DRLs on.
I initially reached out to the seller on ebay and got in touch with Vland support. They replied with this:
What I ended up doing was splitting up the 2 white wires - by adding a wire at pin #4 car side, to go to the white wire at pin #4 on the headlight side.
What this allowed was the dash error light to go away, and turned the DRLs on!
For some clarity:
The only downside to this (for me) was when the main headlights turned on at night, the UU shaped DRL LEDs would turn off. Not a deal breaker but would be nice to solve that one next time I decide to play around with these.
I have a stock standard Australian TSI 2012 golf mk6 (standard halogen bulbs, etc). The headlight switch for this is a euro-style dial that I usually keep on the "Auto" position.
I purchased these Vland headlights from the official vland ebay Australia store, and they came with 2x 10pin->10pin adapter plug.
When I installed these (and used the provided adapter) and when I kept the light switch on "auto", I had a dash error saying "check daytime running lights", I would have no DRLs activated! I would have to switch them to the parking lights to get both DRLs to turn on - and that's what led me to this forum! I wanted to keep using the auto light sensor and have DRLs on.
I initially reached out to the seller on ebay and got in touch with Vland support. They replied with this:
What was interesting about the adapters was there was only one white wire on the car side at #10, and it would split into 2 white wires on the headlight side - one going to pin #10 and the other to pin #4. There was no wire in the adapter for pin #4 which OP identified as the DRLs. (You can see if you look closely at the image)
What I ended up doing was splitting up the 2 white wires - by adding a wire at pin #4 car side, to go to the white wire at pin #4 on the headlight side.
What this allowed was the dash error light to go away, and turned the DRLs on!
For some clarity:
The only downside to this (for me) was when the main headlights turned on at night, the UU shaped DRL LEDs would turn off. Not a deal breaker but would be nice to solve that one next time I decide to play around with these.
Instead of starting a new topic, I figured I’d ask it in this one. I have a 2011 GTi with the OE HID headlights, and I’m receiving a notification of a front bulb needing replacement, however both headlights and side marker lights work. The only thing j notice is that the bottom part of one of the headlights is not lit. It’s very hard to notice, but it’s there. Is there a bulb for that, or is that part of the main HID bulb? Thanks for your help.