Automatic headlights!!!
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From: Just This Side of Damnation
Here's how I did it (see the attached photo).
Lift up the dash pad and use one of these connectors on the two wires leading to the daylight sensor in the dashtop vent grill.
It's that easy.
Lift up the dash pad and use one of these connectors on the two wires leading to the daylight sensor in the dashtop vent grill.
It's that easy.
Last edited by Mr Incredible; Aug 6, 2007 at 07:56 AM.
Originally Posted by bww3588
everyone has a Canadian built F-body, ALL Camaro's have AHL's, ALL Firebirds/Trans Am's built for sale in the US do NOT have AHL's, all Firebirds/Trans Am's built forsale in Canada DO have AHL's. once again, if you have a Camaro, it doesnt matter if your car was built forsale in outerspace, your car has AHL's.
I have had two TAs. The 01 had auto lights, and my current 02 doesnt.
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From: Just This Side of Damnation
Just wondering to the cut-the-orange-wire guys...
Why does it seem better to take the dash apart and cut a wire (thus making it a difficult and tedious reversal should it ever be needed) than to quickly and easily lift the dash to snap on a single connector that can be just as easily removed, as was shown in the photo above?
Curious about that thought process...
Why does it seem better to take the dash apart and cut a wire (thus making it a difficult and tedious reversal should it ever be needed) than to quickly and easily lift the dash to snap on a single connector that can be just as easily removed, as was shown in the photo above?
Curious about that thought process...
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Not all cars have the sensor on the dash. My car does not as the headlights came on automatically when the key was turned foward. Some have the light sensor on the dash that turn them on when it gets dark. If you do not have the sensor on the dash cuting the wire to the light switch is the easiest way.
sometimes people just need to destroy things.....
Teching In
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I live in france, i don't have the drl and auto headlight. Normally we have the parking light (white) in headlight but i have change it to move it in turn signal as yours.
The only problem is that i want my clear corner illuminate all the time...
Could you explain me how it work you drl. Maybe i have just to buy the component at the rear of stereo?
The only problem is that i want my clear corner illuminate all the time...
Could you explain me how it work you drl. Maybe i have just to buy the component at the rear of stereo?
so guess ill try the other way
Originally Posted by allbaugh_04
Just remove the blue connector like a i said a few posts up. It's easily reversible too...can't go wrong.
http://www.xse.com/leres/ss/drl.html
Originally Posted by 93blcZ28
except if you have amanual your trunk hatch wont work read this over there are many little things that it does.........
http://www.xse.com/leres/ss/drl.html
http://www.xse.com/leres/ss/drl.html
I guess u guys with standards are screwed
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From: Jacksonville, FL (originally from Toronto Canada)
Originally Posted by waldershrek
Not all cars have the sensor on the dash. My car does not as the headlights came on automatically when the key was turned foward. Some have the light sensor on the dash that turn them on when it gets dark. If you do not have the sensor on the dash cuting the wire to the light switch is the easiest way.
The misinformation in this thread is absolutely amazing!!ALL f-bodies with automatic headlights (Camaros and Canadian Firebirds) have a sensor in the dash.
Cutting the orange wire at the headlight switch works only for Camaros. If you do that on a Firebird you will disable all of the running lights (tail lights, fog lights, marker lights).
It is always best to make electrical modifications with the least side effects and cutting of factory wires possible. The best way to make this modification is the same way that GM themselves did it for US Firebirds - they shorted the two sensor wires together so that the DRL module thinks it's daylight all the time. The easiest way to do that is with the Scotchlock connector as Mr Incredible posted. It's even easier than unplugging the DRL module (behind the radio) without any of the side effects. It's also easier (and smarter) than cutting wires.
