Ok so none of this works with 2006 Passat, I read your article above n Nothing happen after snipping the black wires. Since I had the wrost time of my life and trying to figure this out, i finally got it to work but I do have BOW on the dash
After many emails and questions about the Donut mod and people asking questions to remove the one side marker i figured id do a write up on how to do it thats a LOT easier to follow
Okay so to do the Donut Mod
you need to remove your outter tail lights (you cant do it with them in the car) the plastic connector needs to be pulled out of the housing. (i used two flat head screw drivers)
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once you have that removed you need to snip a black wire on both outter housings:
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then you will have this look:
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If you dont like the little marker light you can delete tht too:
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youll need to cut one more black wire on each housing:
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once that is snipped youll have this:
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and if you want the full skyline look you'll need to purchase inner tail light rings but the end look will be like this:
Before marker delete:
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After marker delete:
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Here's a quick video showing how they look i made a little bit of a twist thanks to Coderedcomputing idea (to make yours look like this you need to swap two wires on the connector):
little diagram of how the lights look:
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to make your tails look like the above video youll need to:
1. Add the inner LED rings from F4D lighting or EBay (you'll need to DIY your housing with these)
DIY by Member Angelico to DIY your own housing (scroll to the down a ways): http://www.angelico.ca/files/Passat_B6_Skyline_lights_DIY.pdf
To wire in the LEDs you'll need a Diode (show in the pic below)
OEM Clip with no changes (to make your tails look like mine you'll need to swap wires 3 and 4 in the pic you see how the red and black lines swap):
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Modified clip on the driver side (this single clip will power BOTH inner LEDs) the only modifications that need to be made on the passenger side is the swapping of wires 3 & 4
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***** the only VAGcom changes i needed to make were when i added the LED inners w/ the diode. I had to increase the parking light brightness to 50% from the factory 30%. When this wasn't done i would get a BOW when pressing on the brake*****
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