It must be a VW issue. Have any of you VW owners looked to see if there was a recall by any chance? My 97 Geo Prizm (Cheap Corolla) although it has 168,680 miles and keeps ticking, but I digress. The original high beams lasted 6 years, and they weren't burned out just dim so I replaced them. Maybe I'm wrong but I thought that most cars had the Hi-beams setup for DRL usage, at least mine are. Until I can get a new wiring harness I substituted high beam bulbs 9005's in place of my low beams. I painted a chrome tip on them, and it seems to help.