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Wanted: Daytime Running Lights. Seems Not Right?

Discussion in 'Gen 2 Prius Technical Discussion' started by ebikeman, May 2, 2024.

  1. ebikeman

    ebikeman Junior Member

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    I have a "Touring Edition" Prius. Can't believe I don't have factory DRL (daytime running lights). Who would think of having all the stuff we have, on a touring and not come with DLR?

    I would like to see about making DLR so I don't have to turn on the lights and have the dash dim, then have to keep switching the dash lights on past the click.

    I got the car with the fog lights broken, just replaced them today. They are listed as, Fog/daytime running lights.

    I was hoping to be able to leave the fog lights on in the daytime but they don't work independently of the headlights. Again, can't believe they would make it like that?

    Any way to make fog/daytime running lights daytime running lights?

    Can't understand why Toyota would make a touring edition without them. Or, not have the fog lights independent of the lights. The switch it separate.

    To be clear, the fog lights can be turned off with headlights, but you can't turn them on without them.

    Anyway to get DLR that's not complicated?

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    Of course you can wire the fog lights up directly to come on whenever you turn the car on The ignition's on the fog lights are on and mine has 6,000k what are the h3 bulbs or whatever's down there I put them in LEDs they're bright and they match my LEDs in the headlights perfect and they can easily be wired up with a wire so that you can either put them on a switch if that's your thing have to remember to turn them on or they can come on with an ignition controlled wire that you can pick up all over the car practically.
     
  3. fuzzy1

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    That model was designed more than 17 years ago. The Prius line didn't start adding DRLs until 2012. And not retroactively to your year.
    That is a legal requirement in some states, so believe it. Maybe federal too? So getting the configuration you want is an aftermarket DIY matter.

    Like most other factory fog lights, they probably aren't even "real" fog lights, just decorative vanity lights. Back when I first put real fog lights on a car, they were not 50-state legal, just 48 states. So when finally getting a car with factory "fog" lights many years later, they turned out to be just decorations, configured to be 50-state legal. I don't know how laws have changed since.
     
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    Here you go, you can use the amber parking lights, or wire this DRL module from webelectric to your foglights.

    If you wire the module to your foglights, then you don't have to bother with the turn signal function in the module.


    2004-2009 Toyota Prius DRL-2P Daytime Running Lights


    SM-G781V ?
     
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    Pretty much since the beginning of time, it’s been illegal to have fog lights wired to be on without low beams.

    concur, fog lights Toyota uses are useless.
     
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    ... and not just Toyota. Other brands too.
     
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    Hmm, OP hasn't been around since last Thursday.

    SM-G781V ?