WTF!? My car just de-modded itself....
03-03-2007, 07:41 PM
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WTF!? My car just de-modded itself.... So I did the DLR/Auto headlight disable mod to my Camaro back in '04 using the instructions below:
http://www.xse.com/leres/ss/drl.html
Now, I've done this mod to quite a few F-bodies, for friends and on other F-bodies I've owned as well. It's always worked great without an issue....until today.
I was out in the garage today and decided to fire up the Camaro. To my surprise and dismay, the headlights came on.....; and I'm thinking.....
So I turn it off, and back on again. No lights. Good. Let the car idle for a few moments behind my back, and guess what?...
Yep, the lights came back on. 
I pull everything apart, get to the DRL box, and open it up. Sure enough, my soldering job must have sucked, because the solder had broke.
What I don't get is, how the hell did it break just sitting there in storage?
Last time I had the car running everything was fine. WTF!? 
Maybe it was the cold weather, this is the coldest winter we've had in Chicago in about 10 years; had quite a few nights with temps in the -5 to -12*F range, which brought the temp in my garage into the teens. Most winters it barely drops below freezing in that garage.
Ah well, at least it's an easy fix.
http://www.xse.com/leres/ss/drl.html
Now, I've done this mod to quite a few F-bodies, for friends and on other F-bodies I've owned as well. It's always worked great without an issue....until today.
I was out in the garage today and decided to fire up the Camaro. To my surprise and dismay, the headlights came on.....; and I'm thinking.....
So I turn it off, and back on again. No lights. Good. Let the car idle for a few moments behind my back, and guess what?...
Yep, the lights came back on. I pull everything apart, get to the DRL box, and open it up. Sure enough, my soldering job must have sucked, because the solder had broke.
What I don't get is, how the hell did it break just sitting there in storage?
Last time I had the car running everything was fine. WTF!? Maybe it was the cold weather, this is the coldest winter we've had in Chicago in about 10 years; had quite a few nights with temps in the -5 to -12*F range, which brought the temp in my garage into the teens. Most winters it barely drops below freezing in that garage.
Ah well, at least it's an easy fix.
03-04-2007, 12:12 PM
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Well hopefully it won't happen again. I tried something different this time, I put a solid bead of solder between the two terminals on the circuit board rather than using that frail little piece of wire again. This was much easier considering the terminals are just a couple millimeters apart. I think in the future I'm going to do them all this way. I've always had a hell of a time trying to solder in that tiny piece of wire, and if it sticks up just a bit too high then it scraps aganist the plastic cover during reassembly. Maybe that's why my last one broke....
Seems to be working fine now, no more auto headlights.
Seems to be working fine now, no more auto headlights.
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03-04-2007, 01:09 PM
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Originally Posted by Revelation Z28
you gotta stop posting in stanger's topics.
03-04-2007, 01:44 PM
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Why don't you just disconnect the wire harness and leave it like that. That's what I did and everything works like I want it to. No auto headlights and no DRL's. If I want the DRL's on I turn them on.
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Originally Posted by Revelation Z28
you gotta stop posting in stanger's topics.
03-04-2007, 02:57 PM
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Originally Posted by bww3588
my valve stem cap came loose the other day, i tore the wheel apart and took the hub assembly apart and cant find out why it came loose, this is driving me nuts. what should i do?
03-04-2007, 03:13 PM
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Originally Posted by bww3588
my valve stem cap came loose the other day, i tore the wheel apart and took the hub assembly apart and cant find out why it came loose, this is driving me nuts. what should i do?
03-04-2007, 03:16 PM
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Originally Posted by JL8Jeff
Why don't you just disconnect the wire harness and leave it like that. That's what I did and everything works like I want it to. No auto headlights and no DRL's. If I want the DRL's on I turn them on.
03-04-2007, 03:19 PM
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Originally Posted by orangeapeel
I thought about doing that mod...now I may just pull the trigger!
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03-04-2007, 03:33 PM
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Originally Posted by Ell Ess Won
Why would you not just remove the light sensor itself?
03-04-2007, 07:34 PM
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all i did was take out the light sensor and crimp those wires together, i still have drls which dont bother me, but no auto headlights, why do they have auto headlights and a headlight switch....pointless
03-04-2007, 08:06 PM
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