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Hi,

Has anyone installed DRLs already?

Did the light/fog conversion last night and love it so I decided to do some lighting to the front of the car as well. Looking at something similar to THIS ONE. Is this road legal and will the car pass MOT with DRL installed to the correct position?

What do you think?

Thanks in advance

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Yours do look good sparky :-) still not for me though, but not chavvy looking at least. Some of them just remind me of the late eighties when my dad and his friends were all driving chavaliers and escorts with daft fog lights stuck all over them lol

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Errrr...Are these LED strips and suchlike actually classed as DRL's which are the subject of the post? I thought DRL's were of a given specification,bright enough for day 'safety' use? Are those bright Audi LED strips DRL's then? Whats the difference between dippies and DRL's?

If the rear fogs can be converted to brake use, can the front fogs become DRL's or do they have to be a certain height etc, cos I know you technically can't use fogs when it's not foggy/falling snow.....

Bit ironic for an old #### like me as I had a volvo with DRL's years ago (it saved my life actually!)and everyone was soooooooo clever telling me I'd left my lights on, next year all new cars will have them !

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Errrr...Are these LED strips and suchlike actually classed as DRL's which are the subject of the post? I thought DRL's were of a given specification,bright enough for day 'safety' use? Are those bright Audi LED strips DRL's then? Whats the difference between dippies and DRL's?

If the rear fogs can be converted to brake use, can the front fogs become DRL's or do they have to be a certain height etc, cos I know you technically can't use fogs when it's not foggy/falling snow.....

Bit ironic for an old #### like me as I had a volvo with DRL's years ago (it saved my life actually!)and everyone was soooooooo clever telling me I'd left my lights on, next year all new cars will have them !

The old style volvo 'on all the time' style lights weren't the same as current DRL's. My dad has a 59 plate V70 which has the old school style 'always on' lights and also a DRL option. If his Headlight switch is set to off his DRL's work. If you set the lights to 'on' the old style 'on all the time' dip beam and tail lights are lit. The difference is that with current DRL's there are no rear lights illuminated only the front DRL's.

Now the DRL's can take the shape of three main variants at the moment....

1. LED strips as seen on Xenon equipped Audi's, Skoda Octavia vRS's, Ford Focus & Mondeo's, Citroen DS3's, Hyundai ix35 etc....

2. Either main beam or dip beam lights lit at a low voltage so as not at normal brightness... basically brighter than sidelights but dimmer than main beam or dip beam as seen on non Xenon equiped Audi's, VW's, Skoda's etc....

3. Foglight DRL's can be either halogen bulbs at a lower voltage as per option 2 or newer cars have LED/SMD foglights and have these as their DRL's. Ford S-Max/Galaxy have halogen foglight position sidelights/DRL's and the new Skoda Fabia vRS has LED/SMD Foglights which double up as it's DRL's.

Depending on their position the DRL's will also autodim when indicating, (Watch an Audi A4 etc... when it's in the daytime and indicating you'll notice the DRL on that side goes dimmer till the indicator is switched off), And will also either autodim or turn off at night when the headlights are on. Obviously these are conditional on where the DRL's are located with regard the headlights, indicators etc....

Hope this helps explain..... And can you tell i've come from 7 years of VAG (VW Audi Group) ownership where the DRL discussion has been going on for years now compared to other marque forums. :whistling: In fact a lot of the pre DRL' cars in the VAG marque can have the DRL's enabled by anyone with what's known as VAG-COM on their laptop. These are the option 2 method and the ECU lets you select the brightness of the DRL's in 10% increments from next to nothing through to normal brightness..... But i digress.....

Cheers

Dave.

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I'm normally very critical of stuff like this (All VAG cars should have their DRLs removed with a road hammer, and what is all this guff with one lamp going out when they indicate, do they all have defective electrics?) but what Koko has done is really nice and works well.... I'm impressed

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This looks really good. I would deff do this if i had a IS300 or LE with those clusters. Other alternative is modify high beams for DRL like on OEM U.S spec IS


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Thanks for the comments I`m very pleased with it.

Working on a kit but needs some improvement for easier install will let you know when its ready for public but have to become Gold Member first... :whistling:

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