Pete's OEM+ A3 Black Edition

[scopes]

Nice one Pete, looking well    your lights are looking nice and bright ...

How do find your new RNS-E works?

[rdfcpete]

^ Ta Neil 

The LED DRL's are incredibly bright, I see a reflection of them in some places I go in the day.

The RNS-E is really good. It's not quite as dynamic as the RNS510 I had in the GTI, but it does all I need still so can't complain at all. It was also £150 or so cheaper than the 510'...  

[rdfcpete]

Winter mode loaded into the car.


Current vs previous 


After detail and tyres/brakes fitted




Stage 1 remap and auto lights/auto dim mirror/auto wiper retrofit to come next.
Will be doing some exhaust research too...

Cheers.

[Andy]

get some good results them nankang winter tyres

[andrewparker]

Good work with the Nankangs Pete. Did you just fit them to the front?

[rdfcpete]

get some good results them nankang winter tyres

So it seems Andy. For £200 it's worth an experiment.

Good work with the Nankangs Pete. Did you just fit them to the front?

Cheers - I did tbh, going to trial with just the two this winter and see how I get on. There are two spots either end of my street where under a couple of feet of snow I continually got stuck with 0% traction due to the incline. With these, I'm expecting that to change, so they're fitted mainly to avoid getting stuck in the white stuff.

[sub39h]

you're a brave man - the auto lights/wipers etc mod needs a new windshield 

[rdfcpete]

you're a brave man - the auto lights/wipers etc mod needs a new windshield 

I know fella, it's a £1.1k job all in, which I'm hardly over the moon about.

If I could enable the leaving home lights without doing it, I'd bite someones hand off.

[sub39h]

you're a brave man - the auto lights/wipers etc mod needs a new windshield 

I know fella, it's a £1.1k job all in, which I'm hardly over the moon about.

If I could enable the leaving home lights without doing it, I'd bite someones hand off.

http://audiretrofit.quinlivan.net/cominghomelights

[rdfcpete]

you're a brave man - the auto lights/wipers etc mod needs a new windshield 

I know fella, it's a £1.1k job all in, which I'm hardly over the moon about.

If I could enable the leaving home lights without doing it, I'd bite someones hand off.

http://audiretrofit.quinlivan.net/cominghomelights

lol, I wish I'd never seen that before....

Been there, posted around on ASN, PM's, repair wires, time and effort... to unfortunately find out that only works on the pre 8P3 models.
No-ones cracked it on the MY09+ models yet so OEM auto lights, or nothing unfortunately.

[sub39h]

it must be because you need to put the repair wire in a different pin. you're right that for the 8P3 the wiring is different, but if you know the pins you can swap them over no bother. your best bet is to ask someone for the pin diagrams off ELSA of the plugs to the headlight switch. once you know that it should be pretty straight forward. compare the two and instead of putting it in pin 12 like the diagram, put it in the new pin - that is of course unless the new CECM doesn't allow it at all.

[rdfcpete]

it must be because you need to put the repair wire in a different pin. you're right that for the 8P3 the wiring is different, but if you know the pins you can swap them over no bother. your best bet is to ask someone for the pin diagrams off ELSA of the plugs to the headlight switch. once you know that it should be pretty straight forward. compare the two and instead of putting it in pin 12 like the diagram, put it in the new pin - that is of course unless the new CECM doesn't allow it at all.

Argh, you're building encouragement again Sub, stop it 

TBH it's very unlikely the Control module would allow it as it seems pretty restricted compared with the 8P2 BCM that I've interacted with, but that's guessing.
I've got the enthusiasm, the time and the budget to try it - just not the skill or experience in terms of electronics 

Is the pin diagram going to shed any light at all?

[sub39h]

i think the CECM will be the problem more than the pin... sadly the post-facelift CECMs i have little knowledge of

[rdfcpete]

i think the CECM will be the problem more than the pin... sadly the post-facelift CECMs i have little knowledge of

Hmm. Who's best to speak to?

I've got VCDS and I'm reasonably good with it, happy to try different bits out in there if of course VCDS coding will allow the BCM to support the rewiring(?)

The CHome and LHome values can even be enabled and set in my DIS alongside VCDS too, so the coding side shouldn't be as big a challenge perhaps? 

[sub39h]

if you're a member of Audi Sport there's a Scottish chap called Phil who facelifted a prefacelift S3. this makes him pretty much an expert at 8P electronics (he did all the work himself). i know on VAGOC his user is Phil, but i think it might be P5 SND on Audi-Sport. ask him and tell him i sent you!