I hate DRL's

Makes it unsafe for motorcyclists.

A driver see's the light ignores it and still pulls out in front of you as they think your a car moving a a slower speed.

It was good for motorcyclist as then drivers knew it was a bike and took more precautionary measures. Now it means nothing.

Your dealership can shut the DRL's off for you. All they need to do is hook up their tech stream computer. It's under the customizable features. I had my "Car locater" feature turned on today and the tech asked if I wanted the DRL's shut off.

I have a feeling the hard part is going to be finding a dealership that would be willing to do it for you.

Good to know, thanks! What is the car locator?

If you press the lock button on the remote three times the horn will honk and the lights will flash a few times. It's set to ON from the factory in the BRZ but not in the fr-s.

But what does it do?

copied from another thread

"I read through the manual the other night and I remember reading something about the remote having a 'car finder' feature. You can tap the 'LOCK' button 3 times and it will sound the horn once (which is loud I might add) and continue to flash the lights so you can find it in a parking lot or whatnot."

Ahhh, thanks!

I love the DRL's! Its so awesome when the parking brake is down, the DRL pops on! Pull up the brake, the lights go off! *thumbsup*

Nice DIY. Drl is for today's idiot drivers. I think they do more harm than good. It's a distraction, people can see just fine w/o them. If you can't see, turn on lights, it's simple. I see people driving with only drl at night, thinking headlights are on.

This will be my first mod.

I mean no disrespect as I am a new member but I feel that they are important. Yes they are designed for idiots but they are not at all for you or any other driver. They are so that when someone doesn't turn on there lights they can still see in a dark area. There are tones of them in B.C.

True a lot of them are idiots but they still drive at night with no lights on. they don't feel they need them. Now imagine a kids walks out in the road because they couldn't see a car in a dark suburban street, and they get hit. That is the whole idea behind them.

I do see your side as well my '89 MR2 doesn't have them and it is nice to choose if I have lights on but I am smart enough to know when to turn them on.

I don't judge those who take them out as they are the people with enough sense to turn them on. But I just felt that the DRL needed some deffending on this thread.

Pulling the DRL relay under the hood also Kills your high beams I like my high beams so remove the resistor box

Natural selection? But in all seriousness, this is a good write up. I've never liked them, and have disabled them on every car I've owned that came with DRL's.

pull the fuse, no warning lights in dash..?

Not to ask a stupid question, but if one were to add HIDs, would that affect just the low beam, or would the DRLs/high beam be changed (to white/blue) as well?

I'm sure there's a package for both, but I haven't found it clearly stated yet.

Hello, I am very interested in turning off the DRL high beam. I have installed LED running lights and an HID kit, and dont want the high beam turing on any more. I have re-read this post but didnt see the answer... I would appreciate any help... Thank you!

I installed the HID kit in the high beam. It does come on at half power...

Read the very first post. It even gives you a photographed guide to doing this. Ugh..

thanks for the writeup!

So, I just had my car in service and had them check out why my power mirrors stopped working... Apparently, if you disconnect the DRL resistor - as described in this thread - you will also lose your power mirrors. I will live with it until my new ECM arrives that can program the DRL's to be turned off.

I think your dealer may be feeding you a load of poo... I did the DRL delete as instructed about 3 weeks ago. When I went out to the car this morning, first thing I did was check to see if the mirrors were still working. They work fine.

Removing the relay is not instructed.


Removing the Relay is not the way to go. Remove the Resistor as instructed in the first post.

Ishii

I misread. I thought FRSpdDmn meant the resistor. I did not remove a relay.

Sorry, I did mean RESISTOR. I will fix my post. Unplugging the resistor will kill your power mirrors (according to my dealer, that's why my power mirrors are not working).

Out of curiosity, is your car one of the early ones that is eligible for the DRL ECM replacement?

I'm not sure... It is # 2955, built in April. Manufacturers have been required to have DRLs on their cars here since 1990 or so. even if I could get the updated ECM, I doubt my dealer would shut them off. Since removing the resistor, I drive with my running (parking) lights on so there is some sort of light showing at the front. I think this looks much better than DRLs, and many other sporty cars use the marker lights as DRLs anyway.

For those who hate it, but MUST have it for legal reasons.. Maybe this is a better way to disable the DRL? Could you make a foglight-type switch and hook it up to the E-brake wire that runs to the DRL? That way, when you flip the switch to ON, the DRL is enabled.. Flip the switch OFF to disabled it. I'm not an electronics expert, but I'd be interested to see if this is possible.

This might be a dumb question, but why not just remove the bulb? At least then you wouldn't get that yellow reflection.

Take your car to the dealer they can turn them off permenatly through the techstream at no cost to you took 2 minutes to do and they also changed my alarm sound and stuff and a/c around to better suit my elevation. IF they cannot turn them off they will have to order a new ecm for your car wich again will be no cost to you and toyota is more than happy to do it just tell them to turn them off there is a TSB out for them:sigh:

Because the DRL uses the High beam bulbs. If you remove the bulbs you'd have no high beams.

Ishii

Guys if you dont like DRL just go to dealer as the man is saying.
The body ecu for the car has many customizable features which is a free service!!! Just roll through and request what you want. A recent TSB came out saying that toyota will replace your Body ecu so that the DRL function can be turned off at customer request and switched back on upon request. Any Toyota dealer can preform scion warranty work.

Napa relay part # AR6034. Replace relay with this one. No drl, no trips to dealer. Not free but works.

I'm confused does it delete high beams at the same time or do i get lucky and can use highbeams on back roads?!?!?

you all want a DRL switch, like this:
use a burned out fuse and drop a micro toggle switch and wala, DRL on off switch!
http://www.autozone.com/autozone/acc...fier=6427_0_0_

thats the thing DRL's only stood out when it was new tech and not on every vehicle. when i got my first chevy people would flash me all the time to remind me hey you left your lights on. :lol: now that never happens.

so this mod will let me keep high beams?

It's not a mod, it's an actual DRL Delete. It permanently gets rid of the DRL on a FR-S. It will keep the high beams working of course.

Taking it to the dealer to turn them off, is just that: Turning them off.
This is for people that want to completely get rid of the DRL.

Ishii

thanks! i was thinking how pointless the DRL's will be once i black out my headlights.

I know this is a slightly older post, but one of my friends is a tech at toyota and turned off the DRL option through the ecu. I just noticed last night however that when I flip on my brights, all I get is the DRL yellow light, not the bright light I need. I will be asking him when he's back in town, but has anyone else had this issue?

@Ishii Motors, I know this is a DRL delete DIY, but is there any particular reason why you went the extra step and actually removed the resistor, rather than disconnecting, taping up both ends and zip-tying them out of the way? If you ever needed to re-enable them, wouldn't it be easier?

I didn't read the whole post but I did the fuse thing first and you lose high beams or I did. so the other day I was at work and wanted to see what I could change in the computer so I through the TIS on and there is an option to turn off the DRL option. So just go to your dealership and ask them to do it most will do it for free

Note to anyone looking to perform the DRL delete.

You can see in the pics on the first post a small rectangular vented panel just next to the area of plastic this thread says to remove. If you pull gently this panel will just pop off. Depending on the size of your arm you can just put your hand in there, the drl resistor plug is immediately above the panel.

You can carefully unplug the resistor, wrap the wire around the harness and tuck the end against the frame. This took me about 1 minute, required no tools or supplies, and was totally effective.

If you look on the back of that access panel there is a nice Subaru logo (on my NA FRS).

Thanks Subaru!