How do I turn off the DRL's on a 2006?

[wd4ity]

First off, what is a "CAN" network. This sounds like some slang word or a system or something that I'm not familiar with.

Secondly, there has to be a wire that activates the DRL relay. It's the wire that goes to the coil inside the relay that pulls the contacts in. That's the wire I'm looking for. I was making an assumption that it came directly from the shifter but you're saying that the PCM senses the transmission has been put into gear. Evidently the PCM needs to know this so it can set the status for other equipment including the DRL relay. But, the DRL has a wire that activates the coil and that's the one I"m after.

Now if that's in the SJB, then I'll go to a Ford dealer and have them turn the things off. That's what is wrong with cars and trucks today, too much useless junk on them. All this electronic crap is just something to break down and give trouble. I've watched the commercials about this vehicle has the head-on collision avoidance system and that vehicle has come kind of computer system that does this or that. When the mess goes bad, nobody can fix it and if they do, it cost a gazillion dollars. When I first got the truck, I had a tire pressure fault. Not a low tire pressure warning, a tire pressure fault telling me that one of the sensors in the wheel was bad. That's what the readout on the dash said and it told me that in the owner's manual. I argued with several Ford service writers for a year that it wasn't a tire with low tire pressure but a bad sensor in one before they finally got it fixed. The vehicles are getting so complicated that the service people can't fix them. Oh how I long for the Sixties again. A set of points and plugs every 12k miles wasn't that bad.

 

[waskly]

First off, what is a "CAN" network. This sounds like some slang word or a system or something that I'm not familiar with.

Secondly, there has to be a wire that activates the DRL relay. It's the wire that goes to the coil inside the relay that pulls the contacts in. That's the wire I'm looking for. I was making an assumption that it came directly from the shifter but you're saying that the PCM senses the transmission has been put into gear. Evidently the PCM needs to know this so it can set the status for other equipment including the DRL relay. But, the DRL has a wire that activates the coil and that's the one I"m after.

Now if that's in the SJB, then I'll go to a Ford dealer and have them turn the things off. That's what is wrong with cars and trucks today, too much useless junk on them. All this electronic crap is just something to break down and give trouble. I've watched the commercials about this vehicle has the head-on collision avoidance system and that vehicle has come kind of computer system that does this or that. When the mess goes bad, nobody can fix it and if they do, it cost a gazillion dollars. When I first got the truck, I had a tire pressure fault. Not a low tire pressure warning, a tire pressure fault telling me that one of the sensors in the wheel was bad. That's what the readout on the dash said and it told me that in the owner's manual. I argued with several Ford service writers for a year that it wasn't a tire with low tire pressure but a bad sensor in one before they finally got it fixed. The vehicles are getting so complicated that the service people can't fix them. Oh how I long for the Sixties again. A set of points and plugs every 12k miles wasn't that bad.

can network is how info is sent from module to module.

trans range sensor send signal to pcm its in gear, pcm send data out across network vehicle is in gear, how fast its going, and other useless info to every module. when the sjb sees in gear it internally completes the cir of drl. this is the programing in the module. and on a different side note, its only been recent that you can toggle drl on and off on these cars.

as for your service experience well ford offers training its up to the dealership to send tech for training. the ones that don't have unhappy customers.

 

[wd4ity]

Ok, I'm going to Barnesville, a town about 40 miles up the road from here and they've got a dealership. I'll stop by and talk to them about it.

At the factory I worked at, we had training on the equipment we worked on. Even after some of our mechanics had been through the training, they still weren't that good. The reason, lack of troubleshooting skills. Once you figure out what is wrong with something, anybody can fix it if they've had enough training to know the equipment. But, if they can't figure out what the problem is, no amount of training is going to help because they don't know where to apply what they've learned. Now, the makeup of the service department has to be different from that of the past. Used to be you had mostly mechanics and maybe one or two electrical guys. Now, the shop must almost be "specialized" in that you must have mechanics, electrical, and electronic specialist.