2006 Rav4 Daytime Running Lights (DRL)

Hi,

I just traded my 05 Rav4 today for an 06 model. Anyways, I really like
it except I absolutely HATE the Daytime Running Lights. I think that is
the dumbest thing to drive around in the daytime with your lights on.
Does anyone know how to disable these things? Specific instructions
would be great.



Thanks,
Chris

"cusack" <chris99@mchsi.com> wrote in message
news:1142564277.030567.29340@i40g2000cwc.googlegroups.com...[color=blue]
> Hi,
>
> I just traded my 05 Rav4 today for an 06 model. Anyways, I really like
> it except I absolutely HATE the Daytime Running Lights. I think that is
> the dumbest thing to drive around in the daytime with your lights on.
> Does anyone know how to disable these things? Specific instructions
> would be great.
>
>
>
> Thanks,
> Chris
>[/color]
I thought the headlight switches on newer vehicles had a DRL off position.
--

Ray O
(correct punctuation to reply)

our 05 Avalon has DRL off position on switch. Would guess that's
pretty standard now but don;t know for sure.

Other than that how is the 06? Did you get awd and v-6? I heard it
is a rocket and pretty good.

Ron

On Thu, 16 Mar 2006 23:29:39 -0600, "Ray O"
<rokigawa@tristarassociatesDOTcomn> wrote:
[color=blue]
>
>"cusack" <chris99@mchsi.com> wrote in message
>news:1142564277.030567.29340@i40g2000cwc.googlegroups.com...[color=green]
>> Hi,
>>
>> I just traded my 05 Rav4 today for an 06 model. Anyways, I really like
>> it except I absolutely HATE the Daytime Running Lights. I think that is
>> the dumbest thing to drive around in the daytime with your lights on.
>> Does anyone know how to disable these things? Specific instructions
>> would be great.
>>
>>
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Chris
>>[/color]
>I thought the headlight switches on newer vehicles had a DRL off position.[/color]

My son's new 06 Corolla does....

--

Scott in Florida

"cusack" <chris99@mchsi.com> wrote:
[color=blue]
>Hi,
>
>I just traded my 05 Rav4 today for an 06 model. Anyways, I really like
>it except I absolutely HATE the Daytime Running Lights. I think that is
>the dumbest thing to drive around in the daytime with your lights on.
>Does anyone know how to disable these things? Specific instructions
>would be great.
>
>
>
>Thanks,
>Chris[/color]

Sure Chris...simple...with the engine off, remove either the pos
or the neg battery lead. Now your DRL's won't come on.

If you need to go somewhere ask some responsible person for a
lift...we don't need someone as irresponsible as you behind the
wheel of an automobile.
--

-Gord.
(use gordon in email)

Oh your a real dumbass....I mean smartass. How is that irresponsible
for wanting to disable the DRL's??? If Daytime Lights were such a great
thing then why doesn't EVERY car have them??? Secondly I would suggest
you do a little research for yourself and see that they serve no
purpose whatsoever. Go to [url]www.lightsout.org[/url] and read.


Gord Beaman wrote:[color=blue]
> "cusack" <chris99@mchsi.com> wrote:
>[color=green]
> >Hi,
> >
> >I just traded my 05 Rav4 today for an 06 model. Anyways, I really like
> >it except I absolutely HATE the Daytime Running Lights. I think that is
> >the dumbest thing to drive around in the daytime with your lights on.
> >Does anyone know how to disable these things? Specific instructions
> >would be great.
> >
> >
> >
> >Thanks,
> >Chris[/color]
>
> Sure Chris...simple...with the engine off, remove either the pos
> or the neg battery lead. Now your DRL's won't come on.
>
> If you need to go somewhere ask some responsible person for a
> lift...we don't need someone as irresponsible as you behind the
> wheel of an automobile.
> --
>
> -Gord.
> (use gordon in email)[/color]

Hi Ron,

No I bought the base 2wd 4 cylinder. I really wanted it to have more
room and so far I love it. It has plenty of get up and go for me and
you really wouldn't think it is a 4 cylinder either.
As far as the DRL off position on the switch...there isn't one.

If you get glare from DRL, you probably has bad eyes (ass).

DRL is different from headlight. Of course, I guess you never turn on your
head light at dawn or dusk. Do not even mention when it is rainy or foggy.
DRL is to create more visibility of yourself to make you safe. Now we know
who is irresponsible.




"cusack" <chris99@mchsi.com> wrote in message
news:1142621464.605165.62740@u72g2000cwu.googlegroups.com...[color=blue]
> Oh your a real dumbass....I mean smartass. How is that irresponsible
> for wanting to disable the DRL's??? If Daytime Lights were such a great
> thing then why doesn't EVERY car have them??? Secondly I would suggest
> you do a little research for yourself and see that they serve no
> purpose whatsoever. Go to [url]www.lightsout.org[/url] and read.
>
>
> Gord Beaman wrote:[color=green]
>> "cusack" <chris99@mchsi.com> wrote:
>>[color=darkred]
>> >Hi,
>> >
>> >I just traded my 05 Rav4 today for an 06 model. Anyways, I really like
>> >it except I absolutely HATE the Daytime Running Lights. I think that is
>> >the dumbest thing to drive around in the daytime with your lights on.
>> >Does anyone know how to disable these things? Specific instructions
>> >would be great.
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >Thanks,
>> >Chris[/color]
>>
>> Sure Chris...simple...with the engine off, remove either the pos
>> or the neg battery lead. Now your DRL's won't come on.
>>
>> If you need to go somewhere ask some responsible person for a
>> lift...we don't need someone as irresponsible as you behind the
>> wheel of an automobile.
>> --
>>
>> -Gord.
>> (use gordon in email)[/color]
>[/color]

Cusack asked a legit. question on how to disconnect something.

Obviously some of you are angry individuals. Those that responded with
hostility are ignorant to substantiated facts. While I have DRL's that
doesn't mean I am opposed to answering Cusacks question if I had the
answer. Sorry I don't. Talk about road rage in forums. Grow up people.

Becks

"cusack" <chris99@mchsi.com> wrote:

(top posting corrected)
[color=blue]
>Oh your a real dumbass....I mean smartass. How is that irresponsible
>for wanting to disable the DRL's???[/color]

You're quite young aren't you?...I can tell because the young
think that they're invincible, and you do too, I can tell because
you want to disable a safety feature on the say-so of some
fly-by-night website.
[color=blue]
>If Daytime Lights were such a great
>thing then why doesn't EVERY car have them???[/color]

Most do...

[color=blue]
>Secondly I would suggest
>you do a little research for yourself and see that they serve no
>purpose whatsoever.[/color]

Oh, I have...now you should do the same, hell, it might even save
your life sometime, seems a sure thing that you haven't a clue
about their purpose doesn't it?...

Go to [url]www.lightsout.org[/url] and read.[color=blue]
>[/color]

See what I mean?...










[color=blue]
>
>Gord Beaman wrote:[color=green]
>> "cusack" <chris99@mchsi.com> wrote:
>>[color=darkred]
>> >Hi,
>> >
>> >I just traded my 05 Rav4 today for an 06 model. Anyways, I really like
>> >it except I absolutely HATE the Daytime Running Lights. I think that is
>> >the dumbest thing to drive around in the daytime with your lights on.
>> >Does anyone know how to disable these things? Specific instructions
>> >would be great.
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >Thanks,
>> >Chris[/color]
>>
>> Sure Chris...simple...with the engine off, remove either the pos
>> or the neg battery lead. Now your DRL's won't come on.
>>
>> If you need to go somewhere ask some responsible person for a
>> lift...we don't need someone as irresponsible as you behind the
>> wheel of an automobile.
>> --
>>
>> -Gord.
>> (use gordon in email)[/color][/color]

--

-Gord.
(use gordon in email)

try doing a search - might be as simple as pulling a fuse

Ron

Man some of your people on here are a real bunch of losers. We all have
our personal preference on what we don't like and do like and I
personally don't like driving around in the daytime with my lights on.
If it is raning or foggy then that's what the damn switch is for where
I can manually turn my lights on. And just for the record I am 30 years
old and a sales manager who drives about 60-70K per year and have NEVER
had an accident in my life so I probably drive a hell of a lot more
miles than you losers who want to bash me about this. Now as far as
this goes and to the nice guys who do want to help me this is what I
have come up with so far:
I went to poking around on it this afternoon and in the fuse box that
is under the hood is where you disonnect them...sorta. There are 5
relays total in there. Three of them are labeled DRL and two of them
say DIM HEAD. I removed the three DRL ones and whola no more Daytime
running lights....however my high beams did not work anymore. I've
tried several different combinations and even the DIM HEAD ones and at
one point had it where one high beam would work and the other didn't
but I'm fairly confident this is where you disable them. My only
question is just which ones do I unplug, it's like playing a guessing
game since there are 5 relays total and I'm in South Georgia where it
was 90 degress here today so it was a bit too hot to play with it for
too long. Any ideas on just which relay or relays to unplug?

ron wrote:[color=blue]
> try doing a search - might be as simple as pulling a fuse
>
> Ron[/color]

"cusack" <chris99@mchsi.com> wrote in message
news:1142638400.429874.118440@i39g2000cwa.googlegroups.com...[color=blue]
> Man some of your people on here are a real bunch of losers. We all have
> our personal preference on what we don't like and do like and I
> personally don't like driving around in the daytime with my lights on.
> If it is raning or foggy then that's what the damn switch is for where
> I can manually turn my lights on. And just for the record I am 30 years
> old and a sales manager who drives about 60-70K per year and have NEVER
> had an accident in my life so I probably drive a hell of a lot more
> miles than you losers who want to bash me about this. Now as far as
> this goes and to the nice guys who do want to help me this is what I
> have come up with so far:
> I went to poking around on it this afternoon and in the fuse box that
> is under the hood is where you disonnect them...sorta. There are 5
> relays total in there. Three of them are labeled DRL and two of them
> say DIM HEAD. I removed the three DRL ones and whola no more Daytime
> running lights....however my high beams did not work anymore. I've
> tried several different combinations and even the DIM HEAD ones and at
> one point had it where one high beam would work and the other didn't
> but I'm fairly confident this is where you disable them. My only
> question is just which ones do I unplug, it's like playing a guessing
> game since there are 5 relays total and I'm in South Georgia where it
> was 90 degress here today so it was a bit too hot to play with it for
> too long. Any ideas on just which relay or relays to unplug?
>
> ron wrote:[color=green]
>> try doing a search - might be as simple as pulling a fuse
>>
>> Ron[/color]
>[/color]

I've seen solutions to disable the DRL's on other cars like Corollas, you
can probably google Corolla DRL and come up with the solution. The solution
involves cutting wires in one of the relays. If the part number for the
Corolla and Rav4 DRL relay are the same, the solution probably works.
--

Ray O
(correct punctuation to reply)