Does anyone here have any experience with aftermarket DRL kits? The Ford kit is $60 or so, a universal kit from Advance Auto Parts is $100. Even the parts guy suggested looking elsewhere for that!
Cheapest DRL kit is called your hand...just turn the lights on every time you start your vehicle. I've been doing it with every vehicle I own for the last 25+ years.
Cheapest DRL kit is called your hand...just turn the lights on every time you start your vehicle. I've been doing it with every vehicle I own for the last 25+ years.
if u already have fogs lights, just turn those on when its day... if not, then get the stock fogs for ur car and wire up a switch with the relay as stated above^... thats what i did
I'm tired of constantly running the dash lights.
That's the thing, my Explorer didn't come with the fog lights, or the wiring and harnesses for them. It also didn't come with the DRL plug for the stock DRL module, so the universal kit has to be used.
Kind of a pickle, really...
I'm tired of constantly running the dash lights.
That's the thing, my Explorer didn't come with the fog lights, or the wiring and harnesses for them. It also didn't come with the DRL plug for the stock DRL module, so the universal kit has to be used.
Kind of a pickle, really...
I'm not going to worry about adding fog lights for next few years or so. I'm kinda short on dough right now, and I really need to be saving up for the move around the end of the year. I also don't know if my parents are going to give me the Explorer officially when I (finally) move out, so I'm not spending too much money on it at this point in time.
I do like DRL though because drivers around here are a bit goofy. I've been turning the headlights on 24/7 since 2007 and I can tell you it reduces the number of stupid moves people make. Just the other day I decided to give the dash lights a rest, and almost got ran into when making a turn in Hammond. This was in broad daylight.
I thought of just wiring up a relay but I would prefer the DRL kit, which dims the lights slightly and turns them off when the parking brake is set.
woahhhh didnt notice u just said hammond... im in Baton Rouge... what part of new orleans do u live in?
If you really want DRL's you can hook them up yourself. I myself hate them cause it means you will end up buying more bulbs for the vehicle cause they are constantly on. AND if you can't see a truck/car/van/etc. driving towards you (not you yourself, but people in general) than maybe you should stay off the road or start paying attention to the road and not everything else [end rant]. Just use a relay triggered off the ign. or acc. wires in the column. This was a really quick diagram, if you need a better one just tell me.
Is the wire for the 'on' position on the column always green/purple? I've got an '05 if that makes a difference, and my mechanic friends and I could not figure out last night an easy place to grab switched power like that without dropping the under-dash fuse box. So, we have everything wired for the regular fog lights, and the wiring in place for the DRLs... just need to connect the sense wire to something that'll give me switched power, and I'm good to go.
Bill Kemp said:Easy place under the hood to tie into switched power is the windshield wiper wires on the firewall by the w/s motor.
Use a test light to determine which wire is the switched power wire & splice away....