I want to "downgrade" the headlights on a 2003 Passat W8 from the original Xenon to standard halogen.
To answer the "why..."
In January I bought two black 2003 Passat W8's.
1. A 6-spd manual to keep, with broken headlights, tail lights, dinged fenders/bumper cover, missing grille, missing badges, missing exhaust, aftermarket wheels, etc. generally needing some TLC.
2. A high-mileage automatic in good cosmetic shape for parts + OEM wheels (Madras.)
So I swapped what I needed onto the 6-spd and now am trying to find a buyer for the parts car.
No takers so far. Mostly people are looking for complete cars. So I'm putting the cosmetically-bad parts back on the parts car, plus an extra grille and tail lights I had from a regular Passat.
So it already doesn't have any of the distinguishing markers that identify it as anything but a 1.8T Passat. And I have an extra set of halogen headlights, so why not put them on.
I know the connectors are different, but the colors of the common wires are the same, so I assume everything related to hi/lo/turn/city lights is the same. I have the pigtails for the halogens so I can make the adapter.
Which only leaves coding. I believe this can be done, correct? Code it for halogens and just don't connect the extra wires on the harness?
My daughter has a 2.8 v6 with halogens, so I can read it's settings for comparison, as soon as I find where it is in VCDS.
This is somewhere under 09 Central Electronics, I think, right?
To answer the "why..."
In January I bought two black 2003 Passat W8's.
1. A 6-spd manual to keep, with broken headlights, tail lights, dinged fenders/bumper cover, missing grille, missing badges, missing exhaust, aftermarket wheels, etc. generally needing some TLC.
2. A high-mileage automatic in good cosmetic shape for parts + OEM wheels (Madras.)
So I swapped what I needed onto the 6-spd and now am trying to find a buyer for the parts car.
No takers so far. Mostly people are looking for complete cars. So I'm putting the cosmetically-bad parts back on the parts car, plus an extra grille and tail lights I had from a regular Passat.
So it already doesn't have any of the distinguishing markers that identify it as anything but a 1.8T Passat. And I have an extra set of halogen headlights, so why not put them on.
I know the connectors are different, but the colors of the common wires are the same, so I assume everything related to hi/lo/turn/city lights is the same. I have the pigtails for the halogens so I can make the adapter.
Which only leaves coding. I believe this can be done, correct? Code it for halogens and just don't connect the extra wires on the harness?
My daughter has a 2.8 v6 with halogens, so I can read it's settings for comparison, as soon as I find where it is in VCDS.
This is somewhere under 09 Central Electronics, I think, right?