Daytime Running Lights - Hack Available?

There are some threads about this on the forum already. If I remember correctly it isn't an easy thing to do like just checking a box on the internal computer, but you need relays and some amount of rewiring.

I could be wrong so have a quick search through the posts.

 

You do know that you can just turn on the headlights and they automatically turn off when the car stops* and turn on when it starts again?

*In a 2010 they turn off when either front door is opened, once the car is off. By default there is a 30 second delay, the dealer can change this to 0 seconds. In older Prius, only the driver's door works and the only choice is 0 seconds.

 

Leave your sidelights or headlights on fulltime - in default mode they turn off 30 seconds after you power down the car or you can have the dealer change the default mode to turning lights off immediately at power down.

There is a thread in here somewhere where someone installed a Canadian headlight stalk. There is also a thread in here where a US car could not pass the Canadian requirement for DRL's and so the owner used a heat shrink tube with the lights in the on position to pass regaulations.

 

Go to the Toyota site, pay the one day fee, and download the circuit diagrams. The differences are on those, as both are shown (Canadian and US). It's not easy to change the wiring to the Canadian type. You could purchase a module to give you DRLs for a lot less. Search for DRL Module on Google.

 

I am not up on 2010 options but doesn't V have the LED headlights? I bet that adds to your challenges.

 

See attached for my plan of attack. I plan on just running the front fogs at full output.

 

Nice diagram Chris.

I was thinking along the line of a dual-beam replacement for the highbeam bulb. Then running the lowbeam (perhaps @ 1/2 power) of the light through a DRL circuit. I haven't research it much but is there a dual-beam replacement bulb out there that would fit? What is the type of bulb is the highbeam anyway?

 

I can't lay claim to it -- I cobbled it from somewhere else. I also believe it's for a Gen II vehicle. However, it gives the general idea.

 

No option for EU yet. I was today at the dealer for something else and asked about it and he is not aware of anything yet.
Moreover if I leave the headlights on when I turn off the car, the lights will NOT go off (parking lights at least) and a chime will remind you that you did not turn off the lights.
If I am not wrong, DRL will be compulsory in EU on new vehicles starting in 2012. The Auris Hybrid, due mid-Sept in Germany, will have LED DRL standard.

 

the prius is the only vehicle i havent added front lights to full time.,,but will.

1 relay to activate with the pwr frm the ign sw on (find a wire that is hot with ign sw on -a wirper wire is sometimes easy)

(knowledge of wiring relay required)
1 fuse in line.

cut/ splice in the new relay output pwr between the light and the org pwr source with something to block the pwr from going back to the org relay pwr.
(otherwise all lights will come on with sw.)
a diode network can be use for this,, if access is easy- this is a 20 min job.
Result; front lights on with ign sw and or all the lights on from the inside sw.

 

You are right, my solution is self made 320 Candela (per bulb) led fog lights. In my calculations they pay back just after my car gets 150 000 km.

 

Photos?

Are they legal?

 

How does this car not have DRL's?

I thought DRL's were made mandatory several years ago.

 

Not in the US. Canada maybe.

 

I guess I thought they had been mandated since the last four cars I've leased all had them as standard.

Oh well.