2005 Tacoma Daytime Running Lights

If you recall the OP's question, do post it. LOL

Since you are asking the question, the answer is NO. Arm yourself with a list of DRL equipped vehicles made in the past 10 years, then take a stroll through a few junk yards. Funny how many DRL equipped cars are there with front end impact damage.

That's such a sucker question. Sheesh

Irrelevant. There are a LOT more NON DRL equipped vehicles with front end impact damage..in the junk yard. You are a sophist. Look it up.

Obviously police officers, taxi drivers, and 'response' vehicles disagree with your rant.

YOUR car needs to be equipped with an interior ceiling light that turns ON automatically everytime you put the transmission in Park or Neutral or when the vehicle is stopped in gear for more than 30 seconds. The public needs to know what a moron behind the wheel looks like.

I won't let you dodge the point. The point being, DRLs did not save those vehicles from collisions.

No device is 100% effective.

It was intended to be such a question. The fact is that car makers have to do anything they can to improve gas mileage. It sells more cars, and it's also a good idea.

For some people, there is. Not many people, but some. Example: At the ramp where I launch my boat, the more civilized people will shut off their headlights when their vehicles are on the ramp at night. The vehicles are angled upward for a few minutes as boats are loaded onto trailers, so the headlights, or even the running lights will blind the drivers at adjacent ramps. If my 02 Tacoma had running lights, I would've installed a manual switch.

His question was answered yesterday. Find the wires, install a switch. If he wanted a cool, trick way to locate the wires INSIDE the truck, rather than running some from the engine compartment, then he's out of luck so far. Oh well. Not everything's easy.

Gas mileage sells economy cars. DRLs do not sell cars except perhaps to policy wonks at insurance companies. LOL

Hahhaha! You're backed into a corner.

More to the point and in the interest of doing the job right, Toyota has bulletins for disabling DRLs the right way. There was such a bulletin for my 2003 Corolla (which had the same circuitry as several other model Toyotas) which I used to return full headlamp control to the smart stick.

Doug Kanter wrote: snip

I understand the object is to make sure there is a running light on when engine is on that can't be controlled by a switch. They also burn at half or appx. so you can't see with them in darkness which would cause you to not turn on head-lights and not have tail-lights and sidemarker lights. The bulbs will last longer as well by burning at lower brightness. davidj92

Would running lights actually blind someone? I don't think they are bright enough to that

Do you have any factual information to substantiate the opinion DRL's don't have a positive safety factor? I find it hard to believe when it's been proven for a lot longer period that a headlight on a motorcycle makes it more noticable but doesn't have the same affect on passenger vehicles. I would read any information you provide. davidj92

Almost nothing starts an endless thread as fast as the mention of DRLs. Any simple Google search will bring up all the pro and anti arguments. Here are a couple of prominent web sites.

From : "To calculate how many gallons of gas this is, you can divide the 4.26 billion kilowatt hours of energy that the daytime running lights consume each year by the 10.5 kilowatt-hours of energy each gallon of gas yields. If daytime running lights were on all the vehicles in the U.S., we would burn an extra 406 million gallons of gas each year. That's only a couple gallons for each vehicle, but in total it is more than all of the vehicles in the country burn in a day. At $1.50 a gallon, that's $600 million per year. Looking at it another way, an extra 8 billion pounds of Carbon Dioxide would be added to the atmosphere by this law."

Personally, I hate DRLs. I have one vehicle with them, and three without. I don't feel safer driving the car with them and I am irritated by the large number of vehicles I meet that are equipped with them. I have not disabled mine (I figure that might make me liable in case of an accident), but I am not out trying to add them to my other vehicles.

However, I would be willing to put up with DRLs if I could just smash all the "fog" lights that people feel the need to activate on clear nights while driving on city streets.

Ed

A switch would be ideal, for responsible drivers like yourself. However, there are many idiots who lack even the sense to manually turn on their bloody headlights when it is pitch black. I doubt that they would only use a DRL switch for things like boat launching. Count on them to NEVER turn on their DRL's.

No, it is YOU who is backed into the corner, with your bum raised...and LUBED...ready for a Kerry lookalike to take the plunge.

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