After replacing my stock bulbs with some rather expensive upgrade bulbs, I am unhappy about having them shine during the daytime, shortening their life. However, I don't want to give up the actual benefit of increased visibility you get from this feature.

So, what if I deactivated the headlights as my daytime lights, but activated the small orange parking/running lights at the top of the headlight cluster? Obviously this would involve splicing some wiring from the headlight harness into the parking light harness... Anyway, has anyone attempted this? One of you wiring monkeys has to have a solution...

Dude, just get rid of the DRL... you won't miss them. It will let you creep aroung at night with ur lights off if needed.

dude you gave me a great idea...

to do what your saying your going to have to take out the bulb socket for the blinker and put in a socket that can handle a dual filimint bulb ... the dual fii. socket will have one extra wire that you'll have to tap into constant power and walla..

the look will resemble those cars thats day time runner lights are amber..... but will also signal.. bllink

yUm... im on it this weekend... i have good experance with this stuff as i did some simular lighting stuff with my integra...
edgar

well tell me what you think...

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Originally posted by rustokman
It will let you creep aroung at night with ur lights off if needed.
For some reason, i find this quite useful. :D
Before i would have to lift the E brake a lil to turn them off.
Just disconnect the DRL under the glove box.

u guys realize the on the top of your steering column there is a switch to turn on the parking lights just disengage drl

oo how do u turn it off in the glove box

Originally posted by nic3krnnamja83
u guys realize the on the top of your steering column there is a switch to turn on the parking lights just disengage drl

No, that wouldn't create the effect that I want. If I turn on the parking lights, I would also have my tail lights and side marker lights on. I only want the front parking lights/turn signals to go on, as my "daytime running lights" instead of my headlights.

Originally posted by meilers
No, that wouldn't create the effect that I want. If I turn on the parking lights, I would also have my tail lights and side marker lights on. I only want the front parking lights/turn signals to go on, as my "daytime running lights" instead of my headlights.

hey bro i know exactly what your talking about... and yes it would look cool... you have to locate the wire that has a constant power for the daytime runner (where it hooks up to the headlight housing) and buy or get a dual filament socket to replace the single filament stock one.. then wire it up... use the 3rd extra wire (the dual filament socket will have) to hook up to the constant power wire from the daytime runner light.. then to deactivate the daytime light just cut it after the spice you mad.. for the third wire...

its hard to explain if you have no idea what a dual filament bulb or socket is and its differences are from a single but hope that i said something useful...

edgar, :)

Originally posted by nic3krnnamja83
oo how do u turn it off in the glove box

it is not in the glove box but next to it. there is a green harness right about the kick panel. if you disconnect that you disable your DRL

Meilers-
I see that you are from Arizona. i don't know the laws there, but I believe that in California, it is illegal to drive with just your parking lights on. But if you wire it so that just the front parking lights are on and not the rears, you might be okay. I'd look into it a bit more before doing anything.

Thanks for reminding me about that. I've decided it isn't worth the hassle, and just disabled the DRL; initially, I forgot that the forward amber lights are actually used as the turn signals.

The lights that I am actually curious about are the tiny clear lights to the outside of the headlights, which seem to have no function at all. These are actually better candidates for becoming replacement DRLs, but they are far too dim.

California is way too car- and rule-obsessed of a state. I realize they have more cars than any state in the nation, but telling people when they can and can't have their parking lights on is starting to seem less like law enforcement and more like nitpicking.