how to disable drl ?

[FRSBRZGT86FAN]

Originally Posted by [YOYO]

I second this. Winjets with DRL mod

Exactly it makes the car look that much more expensive:

[hsolo]

Originally Posted by humfrz

Ahhhh ....... seeeee .......so, you work on the 10th floor ??.......


humfrz

Nope....live in Florida, so work in a sink hole ;-)

[extrashaky]

I thought I posted a response to this earlier. Weird.

Originally Posted by Dadhawk

There can be a downside if you are getting an insurance discount because the car has DRLs and you have disabled them. Likely to go unnoticed after an accident, but I could see where it could cause you an issue once it does.

I can't see how. You're not modifying the vehicle. You're getting an insurance discount for having a vehicle equipped with DRLs. Once you disable them in the software, your vehicle is still equipped with DRLs. You're just not using them.

My insurer provides a discount for having a car alarm installed. They won't deny coverage if my alarm isn't turned on.

My insurer's discount for DRLs is 1%. They might as well just put on the website, "We know these don't actually do anything, but here's $5 for trying."

Originally Posted by Tcoat

Big downside here would be the $250 ticket for disabling a safety device on a vehicle so equipped. Anybody disabling them may want to check their local laws or be prepared to pay up without whining if they get a ticket.

Must be a Canada thing. It's not illegal in the US to turn off DRLs, unless maybe the People's Republik of Kalifornia has made it so for its subjects.

And even if it were illegal, some cars come with DRLs, while others do not. Cops don't sit around and memorize which ones are supposed to have DRLs. They won't have any idea you have disabled them.

And even if they did, it wouldn't be a "disabling saftey device" ticket. It would be a fix-it ticket. You would just go back in with Techstream, turn them back on and demonstrate to any sworn law enforcement officer that they work. The cop signs the ticket, you mail it to the clerk of court and the ticket is dismissed without you paying anything.

Then you turn the fuckers right back off and LOL.

[Tcoat]

Originally Posted by extrashaky

I thought I posted a response to this earlier. Weird.



I can't see how. You're not modifying the vehicle. You're getting an insurance discount for having a vehicle equipped with DRLs. Once you disable them in the software, your vehicle is still equipped with DRLs. You're just not using them.

My insurer provides a discount for having a car alarm installed. They won't deny coverage if my alarm isn't turned on.

My insurer's discount for DRLs is 1%. They might as well just put on the website, "We know these don't actually do anything, but here's $5 for trying."



Must be a Canada thing. It's not illegal in the US to turn off DRLs, unless maybe the People's Republik of Kalifornia has made it so for its subjects.

And even if it were illegal, some cars come with DRLs, while others do not. Cops don't sit around and memorize which ones are supposed to have DRLs. They won't have any idea you have disabled them.

And even if they did, it wouldn't be a "disabling saftey device" ticket. It would be a fix-it ticket. You would just go back in with Techstream, turn them back on and demonstrate to any sworn law enforcement officer that they work. The cop signs the ticket, you mail it to the clerk of court and the ticket is dismissed without you paying anything.

Then you turn the fuckers right back off and LOL.

Here it would be disabling and a ticket since you have to have turn them off. You would also have to "fix" it. All cars made/imported in Canada since 2002 must have DRLs so the cops don't have to memorize shit, they just have to know roughly what year your car is. In fact in some areas they just have to pull up behind you, let the scanner in their grill do it's work and they will know what year it is (and everything else about the registered owner) since the computer will run the plates all on it's own.


So maybe not an issue in the US but a big issue for Ontario drivers. The reality of it is of course they would probably not ever pull you over just for that but why give them reasons?

[darthpnoy1984]

Originally Posted by FRSBRZGT86FAN

Exactly it makes the car look that much more expensive:

I don't know why got deprived of the DRL LED and HID's here in the states where other countries had it, Scion baffled me I think they should've had this standard right from the get go it seriously makes the car stand out a million times better in my opinion.

Thank God for Winjets frankly the best and first mods to do on this car.

[Tcoat]

Originally Posted by darthpnoy1984

I don't know why got deprived of the DRL LED and HID's here in the states where other countries had it, Scion baffled me I think they should've had this standard right from the get go it seriously makes the car stand out a million times better in my opinion.

Thank God for Winjets frankly the best and first mods to do on this car.

Answer to that is easy


$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$


The rest of the world paid for them and people already complain the FRS was "overpriced" with what it has.

[darthpnoy1984]

Originally Posted by Tcoat

Answer to that is easy


$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$


The rest of the world paid for them and people already complain the FRS was "overpriced" with what it has.

It's hard to please everyone they gave us the car people still complained, lack of power etc etc. we got the Toyota badge now and there's still complaining LOL....

[FRSBRZGT86FAN]

Originally Posted by darthpnoy1984

I don't know why got deprived of the DRL LED and HID's here in the states where other countries had it, Scion baffled me I think they should've had this standard right from the get go it seriously makes the car stand out a million times better in my opinion.

Thank God for Winjets frankly the best and first mods to do on this car.

Originally Posted by Tcoat

Answer to that is easy


$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$


The rest of the world paid for them and people already complain the FRS was "overpriced" with what it has.

Originally Posted by darthpnoy1984

It's hard to please everyone they gave us the car people still complained, lack of power etc etc. we got the Toyota badge now and there's still complaining LOL....

That's actually my car in the photos It also was my first mod , to anyone that gets them a 5000K quality HID kit and the fteightysix DRL mod are a must have with it.

I can see why it isn't included in the FR-S thought, as tcoat said it's budgetary. A proper D2S HID headlight with those DRL Led strips would be a good $800 increase in the price, including getting it legal in the north america. Also remember the FR-S is the cheap "stripper" version of the car.

[extrashaky]

Originally Posted by Tcoat

The rest of the world paid for them and people already complain the FRS was "overpriced" with what it has.

That's really not a fair characterization. Toyota created this situation in the US by hyping the fact that it would be a cheap sports car and going so far as to publish pricing targets that they couldn't possibly meet without cutting corners. People who thought it was going to be a $22K or $23K car were disappointed to see the base model at $25K. Then they looked at what the higher model got and were further disappointed to see that the car they really wanted was going to cost them upwards of $30K once all the paperwork was done.

Of course they could have said all along that it would be a $30K sports car, and people would have yawned and ignored it, and it would never have hit the market at all. But even so, it's hard to blame people for feeling a little misled early on about the price and options, especially when you see options for overseas models they didn't sell here at all.

Like that full sized spare with the lumpy cargo mat in Australia. I may end up importing one of those.

[FRSBRZGT86FAN]

Originally Posted by extrashaky

That's really not a fair characterization. Toyota created this situation in the US by hyping the fact that it would be a cheap sports car and going so far as to publish pricing targets that they couldn't possibly meet without cutting corners. People who thought it was going to be a $22K or $23K car were disappointed to see the base model at $25K. Then they looked at what the higher model got and were further disappointed to see that the car they really wanted was going to cost them upwards of $30K once all the paperwork was done.

Of course they could have said all along that it would be a $30K sports car, and people would have yawned and ignored it, and it would never have hit the market at all. But even so, it's hard to blame people for feeling a little misled early on about the price and options, especially when you see options for overseas models they didn't sell here at all.

Like that full sized spare with the lumpy cargo mat in Australia. I may end up importing one of those.

$23000 would've been incredible and alot of naysayers would've been shut up at that price.

[Tcoat]

Originally Posted by extrashaky

That's really not a fair characterization. Toyota created this situation in the US by hyping the fact that it would be a cheap sports car and going so far as to publish pricing targets that they couldn't possibly meet without cutting corners. People who thought it was going to be a $22K or $23K car were disappointed to see the base model at $25K. Then they looked at what the higher model got and were further disappointed to see that the car they really wanted was going to cost them upwards of $30K once all the paperwork was done.

Of course they could have said all along that it would be a $30K sports car, and people would have yawned and ignored it, and it would never have hit the market at all. But even so, it's hard to blame people for feeling a little misled early on about the price and options, especially when you see options for overseas models they didn't sell here at all.

Like that full sized spare with the lumpy cargo mat in Australia. I may end up importing one of those.

You just said exactly what I did. I just used the Reader's Digest version.

Originally Posted by FRSBRZGT86FAN

$23000 would've been incredible and alot of naysayers would've been shut up at that price.

No then it "Should have been $20,000". You will never shut people up on the price of cars.

[Tcoat]

Originally Posted by FRSBRZGT86FAN

That's actually my car in the photos It also was my first mod , to anyone that gets them a 5000K quality HID kit and the fteightysix DRL mod are a must have with it.

I can see why it isn't included in the FR-S thought, as tcoat said it's budgetary. A proper D2S HID headlight with those DRL Led strips would be a good $800 increase in the price, including getting it legal in the north america. Also remember the FR-S is the cheap "stripper" version of the car.

I am sure I am one of the very small minority that does not like the HIDs and strip DRLs. I am 100% satisfied with what we got as far as lights go and would be looking to swap out anything that had the HIDs in it. Just a throw back for me I guess.

[sgtcarrot]

Originally Posted by humfrz

Thanks for responding to my question.

Well, now, folks ....... I usually try to keep an open mind to most things.

So, I went out and fired up my machine (MT) and the DRLs came on. I set the parking brake to get out to look at them and they went off.

I'm thinking that I never would (almost never) leave my car running in neutral and exit it, without setting the parking brake........ so, I would never see my machines DRLs, even if they were ugly.

So, I left my car running and got out and looked at the DRLs. I think they look pretty neat. :

I never realized they were that hard to see, lol. I am always parked at my office with a dark glass window that reflects the car back to me as I pull in.

[FRSBRZGT86FAN]

Originally Posted by Tcoat

I am sure I am one of the very small minority that does not like the HIDs and strip DRLs. I am 100% satisfied with what we got as far as lights go and would be looking to swap out anything that had the HIDs in it. Just a throw back for me I guess.

It's not really necessary but it looks alright. The difference is pretty noticeable though at night, I've avoided stuff in the road much further out than I would've with the stock halogens. Also my area of the suburbs has almost no street lights so it's nice to have.