disable DRL and automatic headlights?

you should turn on your lights when it gets dark...the DRL's are only about 75% power and it doesn't turn on the back tail lamps...you might find out the hard way at night...no rear lights.

I know what you mean! I hate those automatic headlights! The DRL's aren't too bad for me but the headlight switch doesn't have a function with the auto headlights. So go to this link. I have a switch in my dash and I decide if I want DRL's or automatic headlights. My foglights now come on with my lowbeams. My doors unlock when I shift to park. And my lowbeam and hibeam lights are on in hibeam mode. This is the only place I know that sells the setup, but there may be more.

Jason, The headlights automatically turn themselves on at night. This is what I'm trying to get rid of, as well as the DRL's.

Tony

Ya right... for $90 I'll live with the Auto lights.

I know there's got to be a way to unhook that sensor without buying some gimmick kit.

Tony

Well, I figured out how to defeat the DRL's at least. On my truck, the DRL's are just the high-beam headlamps running at low power, so yanking the bulbs is out of the question. What I ended up doing was removing the DRL relay in the fuse panel under the hood. Great, no more DRL's, but then with the relay gone, when you turn your headlights on at night, only the passenger side high beam works... no driver side. So I tinkered around and found that if you jumper 2 of the relay sockets, you can get the drivers side high beam back. (not sure which hole # at this time, have to go look. I ended up finding which sockets powered the relay switch when the DRL's were activated, and broke one of the relay prongs off, so the relay can stay in it's socket now, it just doesn't click on, hence no more DRL's, and both my high beams work like they should.

I've also since found out that if you unpplug the automatic light sensor and jump the 2 wires together with a 1.6-2.2 ohm resistor, this will eliminate the automatic lights. I'll have to try this on my day off tomorrow.

Now if GM had just left it alone and not made their cars engineered toward stupid people, it would have saved me soooo much trouble. If you're too stupid to know when to turn your headlights on, then you shouldn't be driving a car. Same goes for people who are too blind to see a car without DRL's...

Tony Kimmell Towanda, IL

Blame Canada. Mandatory DRL's in their country, so it's easier to just standardize. Also, insurance companies have found they reduce accidents. If the manufacturers don't use them, they open themselves up for liability. So, Canadians, Insurance companies, and lawyers. Gotta rope? ;)

The easiet way to disable the DRL's is to pull the fuse or the bulbs. I changed mine to yellow bulbs and left it at that. For the auto headlights......I pulled the sensor out of the dash....going thru the radio opening......disconnected the sensor and put a 10K ohm resistor across the connecter, put a piece of heat shink on the connector and resistor, put the disconnected sensor back in the hole and now the lights come on only by use of the dasboard switch.