I see that many of you have installed the Audi style dlr and have considered it as an option.

My question is, is it possible to wire in a true set of drl
As in the civic, numerous models of Toyota's, and other cars, that utilize the high beam as the drl
I am curious as to if this is possible? Google hasn't yielded anything at all.
Here's a link of a picture just to help

http://store.ijdmtoy.com/9005-LED-Daytime-Running-Light-Toyota-Matrix-Camry-p/led_sku45_r5.htm

 

If you do figure it out you cannot have high beams if you have LED 9005 bulbs as your DRL's. The LED drl's are strictly for drl purposes as they only have 1 brightness to them they are too dim to be of any use for high beams.

If you want the color then I suggest you get colored halogen bulbs.

btw Canadian tC's use the high beam lights as DRL's

 

I was debating switching to led style for the fact of eliminating the HBeams. There is a guy who sells a kit but it doesn't use pulse which lowers the level the light gives off.thanks for your input

 

The tC2 in Canada comes equipped like that: DRLs are the Hi-beams with very little power applied to them. It's a law to have DRLs here, so as soon as you press on one of the pedals (I'm guessing gas, it's not clutch cause they don't come on with the car), they turn on. Something in the electronics has got to be different.

Edit: just saw the second post

 

Once the hand brake is down the DRL comes on after car is started.

 

there was a theory (that has yet to be tested) that if you put the DRL relay from the Canada tC into a US tC...it MIGHT work

 

There has to be a way to do this.......my 06 si was activated by parking break and there was a fuse slot a (15a). There seems to be a little bit of extra space in the under dash/engine fuse panels. I think a trip to Toyota is coming up .

 

hey justin do have any idea as to where to get that harness?

 

Canada....

 

Lol so you can't simply order it off any online sites?

 

I don't think the simple Canada DRL relay swap would work. Since the DRLs and the highs share the same bulb, wouldn't that imply they are dual filament? And wouldn't a dual filament bulb require different wiring than our single filament 9005 bulbs? Just thinking out loud though, let me know if I'm wrong.

 

Lol I have no idea but I just want the lights in the high beams to be running at the same time as my low beams. And have it matching my 5k HiDs without blinding everyone I considered putting in LED bulbs but I don't know how that would work out

 

LEDs would be fine and would not blind anyone, but then you'd lose the functionality of your high beams.

 

a friend of mine is making this module... just pm him...
trigger it with ebrake or any switch you want...

http://losangeles.craigslist.org/wst...873905635.html

 

How does this work in conjunction with the high beams? What does it mean it's not pulse regulated? Will it use the stock high beams we have or a different bulb?

 

okay I've always been confused by all the complicated things people do for "DRLs", why dont yall just wire it up so that the headlights are always on when the car is on. You still controll the parking lights manually and you still have your high beams when you need em.

It would be super easy, you could just find which wire in the steering column sends power to the headlights and jump a wire from the wire thats powered when the key is turned to ACC or ON.

Or you could do it at the fuse box, jump a wire from the cigarette lighter fuse (powered when key is turned to ON) to the fuse(s) for the headlights.

You could also use a relay with either of these two methods if you want to be extra careful about not overdrawing, but I imagine you would be fine with just a jumper wire.

 

I think it's just the desire to achieve the OEM look and the satisfaction of knowing you got it there. Also, I would never want to run my HIDs as DRLs...putting way too much strain on my 'bargain' DDM kit. Don't want to give it any reasons to start acting up.

 

Would I be possible to just swap out the high beam bulbs with say some LED bulbs so that it would possibly lose some of it's brightness so that i run them at the same time as the low beams or would it still be too bright?

 

You aren't going to find a plug and play LED bulb right now that will be too bright for oncoming traffic. They will definitely be visible, but no way near blinding. And once again, you won't have viable high-beams. High-end manufacturers like Audi and Cadillac are just braking into LED headlight technology.

 

You can use any bulbs and i have been using this with ddm hid for almost a year now. no issues.
pulse regulated is more effecient than resistor as most factory drl are pulse to give of half power to light up, not full power... He said that to make a pulse regulated it will cost a little high.
If any of you are in southbay he can show it you he's very helpfull.