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Old Sep 19, 2016 | 10:57 AM
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I was just wondering if anyone has done this and if so, how? I'd like to turn them on and off manually.
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Old Sep 19, 2016 | 04:15 PM
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This should be what your looking for.

http://xse.com/leres/ss/drl.html
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Did this last year and it was easy and SOOOOOO much better having control. I didnt solder any points as you can simply join two wires with a scotch connector and your good to go.
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Originally Posted by Luckyzach
This should be what your looking for.

http://xse.com/leres/ss/drl.html
I did exactly that years ago on my 97, bye bye DRL's.
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Old Sep 21, 2016 | 10:41 AM
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Originally Posted by ATXSS
Did this last year and it was easy and SOOOOOO much better having control. I didnt solder any points as you can simply join two wires with a scotch connector and your good to go.
The ScothLock connector mod is for the light sensor in the dash to disable automatic headlights. There isn't an equivalent pair of wires to use for disabling DRLs. You can remove the two pairs of blue wires (plain and with white tracer) from the DRL module connector and splice them together (i.e light blue to light blue with white and dark blue to dark blue with white) to bypass the DRL module and disable DRLs. But merely shorting them together with ScotchLocks without removing them from the connector won't give the desired results.
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Old Sep 23, 2016 | 07:55 PM
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I mounted a switch in place of the ashtray to control the DRL's in my T/A wired similar to the method described above.

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The other switch was for interior LEDs.

Excuse the filth in the photo. I bought the thing with 98k miles from a hole-in-the-wall car lot and hadn't detailed the interior at the time. I promise it looked much better later.
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