turning high beams into DRL

[thebutcher37]

I say you drill a lil hole into your headlight bucket to fit another halogen bulb and tap into your parking lights power so that they are on when you pull your headlight switch to the first position and onward.. they will also stay on while you flash your high beams..
Sound like an idea?

[u3b3rg33k]

if this is what you wanna achieve, do what Dave said




or you can always drill holes into your high beam buckets and run little bulbs that will illuminate the housing.

I think cars look dumb with the inner lights illuminated. It makes the car look narrower, which no one needs.

If you're going to run the fogs during the day, why bother with fake DRLs? Just wire the fogs to turn on with the key in run and the parking lights on.

[lonestar22]

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[bmw325csi]

if this is what you wanna achieve, do what Dave said




or you can always drill holes into your high beam buckets and run little bulbs that will illuminate the housing.

[DaveSmed]

Well, If anybody really wants to do this, I think this is the easiest way.

Grab two 5 pin Bosch style relays. Pop out the LH headlight buckets and cut the brown wire coming from the highbeam plug. Connect the headlight side of the brown wire to pin 30. Connect the chassis side of the brown wire to both 87A and 85.

Go fishing in the headlight harness for a White/Blue wire (teh powar feed for your RH highbeam... double check this, may vary by model year). Cut it. Grab relay #2, and connect the headlight end of the WT/BU wire to pin 30. Connect the fusebox end to pin 87A. Ground pin 85. Check your lights for normal operation now, they should work as they always have.

If your car is still not on fire, connect pin 87 from relay #1 to pin 87 on relay #2. Connect pin 86 from both relays to a wire you will be using to control your lighting.

Now for the fun part. Go get a DPDT switch, hook one of the common leads to +12v, one to ground. Hook the switched side of the ground wire to the WHITE wire in pin 4 of C202. This comes from your headlight dimmer switch and triggers the highbeam relay. Test it, flipping the switch should make the highbeams come on like if you pulled the stalk back. Make sure it does before proceeding. Connect the wire from the two relays to the switched side of your +12v wire. Now your half power headlights should work.



But its dumb so you probably wouldn't want to do it anyway.

[StereoInstaller1]

Dave, trying to go from series to parallel with little modification to the E30 harness might be a bit tough.

[lga714]

I think you want to buy a dodge durango and stop this silliness.

Haha no way man, those days are over!

[u3b3rg33k]

They would be pretty dim, should not be an annoyance to anyone.

:hitler:
That's what honda and Chrysler think, too. All three of you are wrong.

That's like me pointing my 3W LED flashlight at people's eyes during the day and when they complain I say it's daytime, STFU.

[george graves]

I think you want to buy a dodge durango and stop this silliness.

[DaveSmed]

I'm doing a terrible job explaining what I'm trying to achieve... So bare with me.



I think it would look pretty slick having a nice set of HIDs on with some dimly light headlamp bulbs next to it. If modern BMWs can have HID projectors with 4 halos on at the same time (the newer ones have LED halos) I don't see why I can have a dimly light high beam bulb on with my HID projectos.

You want city lights in the highs. Think MkIV VW.

[DaveSmed]

a relay, a high powered resistor (I would think you want about 6V to the bulbs) or two is all you need.

Look, a high beam on half power is not gonna be bright at all, that is why I said use a resistor...but you are gonna need a fairly burly one, like heavier duty than a sand cast resistor, but like a metal one with a heat sink...maybe that would be overkill for 2 55W bulbs, but it will do fine.

<Psst> Use the other bulb as your resistor....

Waste not, want not and all that.....

[lga714]

I'm doing a terrible job explaining what I'm trying to achieve... So bare with me.

Look, a high beam on half power is not gonna be bright at all, that is why I said use a resistor...but you are gonna need a fairly burly one, like heavier duty than a sand cast resistor, but like a metal one with a heat sink...maybe that would be overkill for 2 55W bulbs, but it will do fine.

So, let me get this straight: you want the high beams on dimly whenever the ignition is on, right?

I'm just going for the look of a DRL, I don't want them on when I turn the ignition, I just want them on when I pull the headlight switch.

You would want to be able to flash the highs when driving with the lights off, right?

Yes.

You also want the dim highs to shut off when you turn your headlights on, because 4 low beams is illegal and will get you pulled over.

I was not aware of this. Today's cars have LEDs in their headlamps, to me those are more of a distraction as an oncoming driver. Now that I think about it, do those LED's turn off at night?

Of course, the highs need to come on when you switch over to them too, right?

Yes.

I just wanna make sure of the design of your circuit, as all the wiring changes when you change how you want it to work.

I think it would look pretty slick having a nice set of HIDs on with some dimly light headlamp bulbs next to it. If modern BMWs can have HID projectors with 4 halos on at the same time (the newer ones have LED halos) I don't see why I can have a dimly light high beam bulb on with my HID projectos.

[StereoInstaller1]

They would be pretty dim, should not be an annoyance to anyone.

[u3b3rg33k]

Please don't run your high beams as DRLs. Honda and Chrysler do it now, and it extremely annoying to be in front of them during the day.

[StereoInstaller1]

Look, a high beam on half power is not gonna be bright at all, that is why I said use a resistor...but you are gonna need a fairly burly one, like heavier duty than a sand cast resistor, but like a metal one with a heat sink...maybe that would be overkill for 2 55W bulbs, but it will do fine.

So, let me get this straight: you want the high beams on dimly whenever the ignition is on, right?

You would want to be able to flash the highs when driving with the lights off, right?

You also want the dim highs to shut off when you turn your headlights on, because 4 low beams is illegal and will get you pulled over.

Of course, the highs need to come on when you switch over to them too, right?

I just wanna make sure of the design of your circuit, as all the wiring changes when you change how you want it to work.