No offense to BigRon, but his thread got me thinking.
Why do people disable DRLs? Every forum about every vehicle equipped with them has a bunch of threads about it. Some people even do it in silly ways like loosening the park brake shoe in your GM truck and driving with the park brake pedal down a click or two. Seems to me DRLs are a smart thing to have unless you are a secret agent or something. I fixed the DRLs on my truck.
I’m just wondering what some others think and if you disabled, removed, modified or fixed, why? Custom look? One broke and cheaper to get rid of the other? Spy/secret agent/arms smuggler/immigrant worker border crossing vehicle?
I deleted them on my camaro because i liked the look, also i had angel eye head lights which were wired to my drl’s so i only wanted them on when i wanted those on
i personally don’t like them… or the idiots who think that they don’t have to put their normal lights on in the rain just because they have drl’s. as if people needed an excuse to be lazy for flipping a switch to turn lights on.
mine aren’t disabled… buuuut I feel like a douche every time I go to the drive in and have to explain that they don’t turn off, then proceed to drive around blinding people trying to watch movies.
^^if its an s10/blazer you are talking about you can hit the button next to the switch 4 times and it turns the drl’s off until you turn off the ignition.
Most people do it just to be different. If the majority of cars came without them, everyone would want them on. If a certain body panel is left unpainted, people will paint it. If it’s already painted, people will paint it black.
I’m sure others have different reasons for why they do it, but that’s just what they say.
Wow a drive-in. Never been to one. Didn’t think of that. Only one I know of around here is between Auburn and Seneca Falls. I thought you didn’t actually ‘watch’ the movie at the drive in, at least that’s what the old folks say.
OT - Last time I was at a drive-in there as some d-bag in front of me that kept resting his foot on the brake… so I snuck up behind him in my truck (as sneaky as you can be) and hit him with the passing lights about a foot from his bumper. He stopped resting his foot on the brake after that.
I started doing it when I had my Geo Tracker that I imported from Canada (came with DRL’s.) Despite the auto industry swearing DRLs didn’t effect bulb life I replaced 3 headlight bulbs the first 2 years I owned it. Disabled the DRLs and didn’t replace another headlight bulb the remaining 3 years I owned it. Could be coincidence sure, but common sense says since a bulb has so many hours of life it’s going to burn out faster if it’s on all the time.
DRLs disabled on the GTO about a week after I got it. No DRLs on the Expedition but if it had them they’d be disabled too.
My other big complaint with DRLs is putting them in cars that don’t have automatic headlights. You see way to many idiots driving around the city at night with nothing but their DRLs on (no running lights).
if i had HID’s i’d do it. no point in putting hours on the bulbs that i imagine are expensive to replace. i did it on the one car i’ve owned that had DRL’s just because i felt i was burning through bulbs too quickly. that being said, it was a VW so it was probably just an electrical problem.
