disabling the daytime driving lights

How astute of you. I think you're on to something.

The distinction of the dim to high or off to high is certainly true.

I also asked you yesterday to list up some cars that use parking lights for DTRs. On my way into the office this morning, I mad a point of looking for myself and found many different cars using many different lighting arrangements to accomplish the objective of DTRs. I hadn't noticed before that DTRs were not simply a modification to the high beams.

HEY! You live in Canada! You can't do that! I'm calling the Mounties!!!

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How do I INSTALL DRL's!!!!

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You'll never get me alive, Coppers!

Allen, the DRL's on the 4Runner is 2 amber bulbs. You can remove the bulbs yourself for nothing!

As for the original poster, it will require some wiring changes. You can not just pull a fuse, relay etc and any Toyota DRL's or the other systems will be inop.

Allen, tell them you dont want the headlamps disabled, just the 40% driving ones. Then you can drive down the road with 100% full intensity. SO what if the DRL's are deleted, just switch your headlamps on for safety. Its works for the last 80 years.

Going on military bases, you msut turn off headlamps so they can see you. Imagine setting in the parking lot of a car waiting for the family to come out, headlamps shining in at customers eyes throug the window, setting at a conveeience store, headlamps shining in at folks, coming into my culdesac, headlights shining into everyones windows...

Will there be anything else nanny?

Tom, we use headlights. I dont think he was asking to defeat the headlamps sytems, just the the less visable 40% DRL system, which is dangerous at night when folks think their lights are one, and they only have DRL's at 40% and no running lights at all.

And this can be a result of nanny lights (DRL) and when people stop looking for cars, and instead, start looking for lights only, we have accidents like this. A pitfall of nanny lights. People become complacent.

Mike, I read the only reason GM did this was to have one wiring system, as they sold to Canada and the US. It was to simplify it is all.

No net nanny please.

Once DRLs are on on any Toyota, they will remain on, regardless of parking brake, but if one was to do this mod he suggested, then start the car, it "would" work, so you owe Mike apolgy., We know your pissy because you have assumed the role of net nanny and dont like his top posting. Get over it!

Just reach down and turn the headlamps on to full intesisty. You lawyer would say, "yes, he had disabled the DRL's, but he had his headlights on. Whcih techncially would shut off the DRL's anyway. So when you drive, do you look for cars, or headlamps and how can you tell the difference between DRLS and headlamps?

Jeff, look on the left side of the steering wheel. On the end of the turn signal stalk you'll see the headlamp switch. If it doesnt work, take it to the dealer. Oh, in nmost Toyotas, you can leave the headlamps on, when you shut the car off and open the door, poof, they go off and when you turn the key on, poof, they all come back on!

It will, if your the type to look for headlamps instead of cars before pulling out into traffic, you'll be the first to go! Good bye, survival of the fittest. Those who cant see a car (blind/coke bottles) will be delted from the pool by nature and by the nose of a car entering your drivers door area.

Jeff, the common convention is DRL for Daytime Running Lights, not DTR (daytime is one word)

Well, most of us know that headlamps are connected to the business end of cars so it doesn't really matter which one we see but I guess for those who cannot grasp that simple concept it has to be explained. Personally, I'd much rather be burdened by 'coke bottles' than a decided lack of gray matter. I imagine that the scream of brakes must really rattle around in all that empty space...hummm?.