I disabled my DRL by pulling the associated fuse, and was thinking I'd just run w/ the yellow parking lights on.... or whatever they're called. Unfortunately they're pretty small, dim bulbs. Does anyone have any thoughts about how we might get those suckers bright? I know some GM cars have those as the DRL's:




I'm not too worried about the wiring... mainly about the bulbs... any thoughts?

 

Actually - thinking about this a little more... We have three lights in each cluster, the headlights, the turn-signals, and the parking-lights. The turn-signals are yellow and very bright. The parking-lights are yellow, but less bright.

Maybe I'll take a look at what's going on there and swap the blinkers for the turnsignals... so the turn-signals will be powered by the parking-light circuit and the blinkers will toggle the little yellow parking lights... hmmmm....


thoughts?

 

I changed out my OEM corner light bulbs to PIAA Plasma Ion Yellow ones. They're pretty bright.

 

I use MTK 8w replacements. Definitely brighter than piaa plasma 5w. No heat issues.


Another option you could do is mod your turn signals. http://img38.imageshack.us/img38/6404/dsc0232medium.jpg
Replace the socket to accept dual filament and wire to run DRL. The sockets can be found all over ebay.

 

Apologize for reviving this up but this stuff looks cool to me. where can i find one...for how much? I seen an actual one with my buddy but searched over the internet and ebay has lots of corner lights to show. don't have the idea which one to pick...any inputs about it?

 

This is my solution and works for me



I bought here

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The light is very brilliant, now running for one week and everything is OK

The bulb touch a little bit the plastic on the headlight, however the heat on the leds is not enough to melt them, I'm pretty sure

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Nice! What color are those? White light?

 

They are PURE WHITE light and are so brilliant like A REAL DRL

I would recommend you

Luis

 

Any issues with heat and it touching the inside of the headlight cover? I want to do this but with amber color.

 

The color of the LED shouldn't affect the amount of heat that little bulb produces.

 

I think yellow color produces less heat, don't know exactly may be an expert can confirm.

However if you're thinking to use as a DRL the small corner lights is not a good idea in a SUNNY day

In my case, those small but powerful LEDs produces a lot of heat, but until now the Headlight Assembly is not melted, so I think it will resist without any issue.

Luis