Add daytime running lights on US EPs?

[BarracksSi]

OK, so the circuitry might be somewhere in my USA Civic hatch. Might it be as simple as fiddling with a fuse or two, or would it be more involved?

I would prefer to use the front parking lights as daytime lights, if at all possible.

[Tekdemon]

Yeah I'm up in rochester here, which is about as north as you get in the US, and heck it's on like the same level as montreal and crap(it's actually a shorter distance for me to get from NYC to montreal than rochester sheesh) and the canadians get DRL but I don't?! Well ok I bought it in NYC but all US Si's don't have DRL so that's besides the point. I think it's ridiculous that they would leave out DRL...how much money can that possibly save to leave out DRL?!

[RMC22]

Just drive with parking lights on? I hated DRL on my last car. Can never go in 'stealth' mode :D

[Suk02Si]

Originally posted by RMC22
Just drive with parking lights on? I hated DRL on my last car. Can never go in 'stealth' mode :D

exactly, if the US Si had 'em, I would've found a way to get rid of them somehow

[BarracksSi]

A Canadian friend of mine told me that the accident rate dropped by about half when Canada implemented the DRL requirement.

Makes sense to me, especially in a stealthy black EP.

[LazyAzzAzian]

yeah i hate the idea of DRL, i mean if i want my freaking lights on, ill turn them on!

[Surprise]

I like the idea of DRL on vehicles that are hard to see, but the only vehicles that I find hard to see are motorcycles. If everyone and thier dog had lights on it would be very easy to think that that motorcycle that is about to pass me is a car with one DRL out, thus i would not give the motorcycle the extra cushion space that I normaly give motorcycles. That is another thing half of the DRLs that I see only have one bulb, the the other one is always burnt out. During the day I find myself looking toward the bright lights of passing cars and being distracted by them.

[IceD out N CALI]

Originally posted by LazyAzzAzian
yeah i hate the idea of DRL, i mean if i want my freaking lights on, ill turn them on!

me too

[myeverlovinsir]

Originally posted by BarracksSi
A Canadian friend of mine told me that the accident rate dropped by about half when Canada implemented the DRL requirement.

Makes sense to me, especially in a stealthy black EP.

Damn straight, wisdom prevails up here in that area, and one thing we are not complaining about. It's a lifesaver in bad weather for sure.;)

[Surprise]

Originally posted by myeverlovinsir


Damn straight, wisdom prevails up here in that area, and one thing we are not complaining about. It's a lifesaver in bad weather for sure.;)

Let me think if I wanted to get noticed in bad weather what would I use.... hmmmm. A 5 watt nightlite bulb or a 55 watt light. There is no use for DRLs

[norcalSI]

DON"T GET DRL...they suck balls....i have them on my corolla and if you get aftermarket bulbs they burn out twice as fast...at 50 dollars a pair it isn't cheap...they only last about 3-6 months..drl are bad...you can't even hide in the dark....when stalking someone...lol

[myeverlovinsir]

Originally posted by Surprise


Let me think if I wanted to get noticed in bad weather what would I use.... hmmmm. A 5 watt nightlite bulb or a 55 watt light. There is no use for DRLs

I think your taking it out of context, most on the road don't even remember they have DRL, and even more who had the option of not having DRL (older models) would forget to put the lights on no matter what the weather. You would be surprised how people up here react to others who have not turned on their lights. I am speaking about older cars that are not equiped with DRL. People on the roads will honk, joust and point furiously to get others to turn them on. It just seems out of place up here not to have them on. Don't be fooled by how the weather is, a car comming towards you with DRL is much more noticable regardless of the idiot behind the wheel. Numerous studies have proven that it is much more safer even during the daytime. And BarricksSI's comment is correct, our accident rate has significantly dropped because of it. Nuff said.

[SiRman]

Can I get an Eh-men!

[Tekdemon]

heh it's definitely useful here...although sometimes I can hardly see the regular beams, let alone DRL...still it's better than if you forget!

I had quite the adventurous drive the other day in a flurry with snow all over the highway and my car had some fun skidding trying to merge into the lane. It was particularly not fun since I was going to get it inspected for insurance so if I had totaled it before getting the inspection I would only have had liability, which would have sucked since I don't feel like paying again =P

But I managed to get the car to quit skidding before sliding into oncoming cars so yay me...oh and I get to live too =P

[SiR Medic]

DRLs do not reduce the life of bulbs in any significant way.

DRLS work by sending reduced power to the Hi-Beams of your lights. In cars like ours, with both high and low beam filaments in the same bulb, the low beam will burn out LONG before the high beams will.

The bottom line is that they do work, and it will only be a matter of time until all cars have them.

Anyway, back to BarrackSi's original post I have seen kits available to retrofit cars with DRLs, both at Canadian Tire here up north and in Murray's Auto Parts in Detroit.

Also, on my old RX-7 I had a pair of foglights hooked up directly to the ignition circuit, so that they came on automatically when I started the car, and went off as soon as I turned the car off, it worked quite well. You could try this...