Hi, Guest
06-20-2008, 05:59 AM
It's kinda comical not having DRLs, actually. Driving to work this morning when it was sorta dark and cloudy / rainy, I decided to turn on the parking lights and the fogs. I swear 3-4 other Escape owners did a double-take / gave me the evil eye! :lol:
Night #2 with them in and having driven around... quite, quite worth it.
Again, Nathan, if the 08 Foci DRLs run on the high-beams... you might want to see if the DRL function can be redirected. Saving that, you may just want to pull the relay and then ensure that your high-beams work. I'll look into the HTA, but I'm fairly certain that DRLs only need to be working when the car is sold, not when the car is driven after the sale. Sure, they're a great automatic safety feature but so is having enough grey matter to turn on your parking lights at least in inclement weather - you get 4 corners of "protection", something factory DRLs don't give you. I hate mindless, half thought-through hand-holding BS that becomes "the standard" because it's been around for a while and no-one sees fit to question it... kinda like the apes, the electrified banana and unwritten "policy".
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Night #2 with them in and having driven around... quite, quite worth it.
Again, Nathan, if the 08 Foci DRLs run on the high-beams... you might want to see if the DRL function can be redirected. Saving that, you may just want to pull the relay and then ensure that your high-beams work. I'll look into the HTA, but I'm fairly certain that DRLs only need to be working when the car is sold, not when the car is driven after the sale. Sure, they're a great automatic safety feature but so is having enough grey matter to turn on your parking lights at least in inclement weather - you get 4 corners of "protection", something factory DRLs don't give you. I hate mindless, half thought-through hand-holding BS that becomes "the standard" because it's been around for a while and no-one sees fit to question it... kinda like the apes, the electrified banana and unwritten "policy".
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33" BFG Mud-Terrain KM2s, lots of Rough Country gear - bumper, 2.5" lift, swaybar disconnects, Superwinch 10,000lb winch, Detroit Locker in rear D44 axle, custom exhaust, K+N filtercharger, Superchips-tuned.
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33" BFG Mud-Terrain KM2s, lots of Rough Country gear - bumper, 2.5" lift, swaybar disconnects, Superwinch 10,000lb winch, Detroit Locker in rear D44 axle, custom exhaust, K+N filtercharger, Superchips-tuned.
Daily driver 2: 2006 Subaru Legacy GT
COBB Stage 1+ package - AccessPort tuner, COBB intake and airbox. Stage 2 coming shortly - COBB 3" AT stainless DP and race cat, custom 3" Magnaflow-based exhaust and Stage 2 COBB tune.