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Old 04-28-2008, 12:38 PM
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I'm putting the 10k resistor in place of the sensor and I was looking at resistors and there are a bunch of different watts. How many watts should I get in the resistor?
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No resistor is necessary (or even desireable). Just connect the two sensor wires together... zero resistance = bright daylight = no automatic headlights. A really easy way to do that is to crimp a scotchlock connector over the two wires.

BTW, we're talking about automatic headlights...DRLs are the amber lights in front and it takes a different mod to disable them.
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Why would you want to disable the yellow lights, though? They look cool coming down the road at you.
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I agree. I just wanted to make sure we were talking about the same lights to disable.
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Thanks!
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you have to lift up the dash to do the scotch lok trick dont you? how did everyone do it? im afraid of cracking the dash in half
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i think you can remove the headunit and reach behind there to do it
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