Daytime Running Lights malfunction

Hi all

I'm having a problem with my 1992 Canadian Nissan NX 2000...the Daytime Running Lights aren't working as they should. (For those that don't have them, DRL put on the high beams on a dim setting whenever the car is running as a safety feature a-la Volvo). What mine does is occasionally switch to leaving the driver's high beam on high and shuts off the passenger's side light altogether so people think I'm flashing them. All lights work as they should when I manually activate them, so it's not a bulb failure.

I'd like a way to bypass the DRL circuit altogether, but I had a look and it looks as if the entire beam circuit goes through the DRL box. I saw this on the 'net for a Sentra of a different year, but my module had different wiring. I have the shop manual but for the life of me can't see any way to bypass, and I begrudge replacing something I disliked in the first place!

Anybody have any suggestions?

TIA

John

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EJD
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I had the same sort of problem with my 1994 Altima. The problem turned out to be some cold solder joints on the board inside the DRL module for the relays that click over when you turn on the regular headlights. I just touched up the joints and it was perfect again, took about 5 minutes once I figured out where the module was hiding (behind the kick panel ahead of the passenger's door under the dash) and how to get it apart.

Hope that helps!

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JM

OK - Thanks. I'll give that a try.

John

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EJD

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