has anyone done this?

[Lost]

is there a way to have just my lower fog lights and parking lights on while driving but not the day time running lights on? I know when you apply the park brake you get that look but I would like it when ever I just turn the switch.

[Super T]

Have to disable your DRL's.

[Lost]

Have to disable your DRL's.

so....can you tell me how?

[RossE]

You'll need to take it to the dealer or find someone with a Starscan.

[Hemi RT]

Have to disable your DRL's.

But DRL's are mandatory in Canada and I've heard of some people getting ticketed for not having them work. If the car never came with them, that's another story but after 1998 (if I remember correctly) they were mandatory on all passenger vehicles.

[Lost]

I wonder though,if my fogs are enough to cover that law

[Knightrider]

cant just turn your the knob to parking lights and turn fogs on? example on my car the knob has 4 settings (automatic, off, parking, headlight) so i just turn the knob to parking and push to turn the fog light on.

[Bryali]

cant just turn your the knob to parking lights and turn fogs on? example on my car the knob has 4 settings (automatic, off, parking, headlight) so i just turn the knob to parking and push to turn the fog light on.

That's what mine does, although it doesn't have the automatic headlights....yet!!

[SKULLBOY]

I wonder though,if my fogs are enough to cover that law

Not sure on that........you would have to look through the Federal Motor Vehicle Act and see what the regulations specify............I would doubt that they would be enough though...........when you start to tinker with, or modify mandated safety systems, the government and enforcement agencies tend to get a little upset........

And DRLs have been mandatory for all new vehicles made or imported into Canada as of Jan. 1st 1990 ............not 1998........

Canada

Canada Motor Vehicle Safety Standard 108 requires DRLs on all new vehicles made or imported after January 1, 1990. Canada's proposed DRL regulation was essentially similar to regulations in place in Scandinavia, with an axial luminous intensity limit of 1,500 candelas, but automakers objected, claiming it was too expensive to add a new front lighting device, and would increase warranty costs (by dint of increased bulb replacements) to run the low beams. After a pitched regulatory battle, the standard was rewritten to permit the use of reduced-voltage high beam headlamps producing up to 7,000 axial candelas, as well as permitting any light color from white to amber or selective yellow. These changes to the regulation permitted automakers to implement a less-costly DRL, such as by connecting the high beam filaments in series to supply each filament with half its rated voltage, or by burning the front turn signals full time except when they are actually flashing as turn indicators.

United States

General Motors, interested in reducing the build variations of cars for the North American market, began lobbying the DOT (United States Department of Transportation) to permit DRLs in the United States shortly after Canada required them. A prolonged regulatory battle was fought, with the DOT objecting on grounds of potential safety drawbacks and glare issues. Eventually, however, these objections were set aside and DRLs of the same types allowed in Canada (save for fog lamp DRLs) were legalized but not mandated effective with the 1995 model year. General Motors immediately equipped most (and, in following years, all) of its vehicles with DRLs beginning with the Chevrolet Corsica. Saab, Volkswagen, Volvo, Suzuki and Subaru gradually introduced DRLs in the U.S. market beginning in 1995. In recent years, Lexus has installed high-beam or turn signal based DRLs on US models. Some Toyota models come with DRLs as standard or optional equipment, and with a driver-controllable on/off switch. Starting in the 2006 model year, Honda began equipping their U.S. models with DRLs, mostly by reduced-intensity operation of the high beam headlamps.
Public reaction to DRLs, generally neutral to positive in Canada, is decidedly mixed in the U.S. Thousands of complaints regarding glare from DRLs were lodged with the DOT shortly after DRLs were permitted on cars, and there was also concern that headlamp-based DRLs reduce the conspicuity of motorcycles, and that DRLs based on front turn signals introduce ambiguity into the turn signal system. In 1997, in response to these complaints and after measuring actual DRL intensity well above the 7,000 cd limit on vehicles in use, DOT proposed changes to the DRL specification that would have capped axial intensity at 1,500 candelas, a level nearly identical to the European 1,200 cd and identical to the initially-proposed Canadian limit. During the open comment period, thousands of public comments were received by DOT in support of lowering the intensity (or advocating the complete elimination of DRLs from U.S. roads). Automaker sentiment generally ran along predictable lines, with European automakers experienced at complying with European DRL requirements voicing no objection to the proposal, and North American automakers vociferously repeating the same objections they raised in response to Canada's initial proposal.[18][19] The DOT proposal for DRL intensity reduction was rescinded in 2004.[20]

[Lost]

the only way I can have the drl off is to have the park brake on on canadian cars they are on all the time even with the switch in the off position