turning high beams into DRL

[george graves]

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

[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.

[lga714]

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

Haha no way man, those days are over!

[StereoInstaller1]

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

[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.

[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.

[lonestar22]

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[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.

[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?