Daytime Running Lights?
Le Mans Master
Joined: Feb 2003
Posts: 6,682
Likes: 144
From: Memphis Tennessee
OK here goes:
If you pull the #2 fuse you will LOSE some of the APPROACH features.
This is easy...I promise !
1. In the passenger footwell, lower the front carpet.
2. Remove the foot panel.
3. Locate the IPEC (Instument Panel Electrical Center) It looks like the fuse box next to the battery.
4. Remove the cover of the IPEC.
5. Turn it over and find the diagram of the components.
6. Locate relays 38 and 40. (38 controls the right DRL and 40 the left)
7. Pull each relay and carefully remove the cover.
8. Insert some type of insulator between the relay contacts (matchbook cover cardboard or the plastic from a coffee can lid works well) that you have cut to fit.
9. Replace relay cover, replace relay, replace IPEC cover, replace the footwell.
10. DONE!!
You will now have NO drl's and retain ALL of your APPROACH features. I have had mine this way for over three years and have had not a prob. Good luck and feel free to PM mewith any question you might have.
If you pull the #2 fuse you will LOSE some of the APPROACH features.
This is easy...I promise !
1. In the passenger footwell, lower the front carpet.
2. Remove the foot panel.
3. Locate the IPEC (Instument Panel Electrical Center) It looks like the fuse box next to the battery.
4. Remove the cover of the IPEC.
5. Turn it over and find the diagram of the components.
6. Locate relays 38 and 40. (38 controls the right DRL and 40 the left)
7. Pull each relay and carefully remove the cover.
8. Insert some type of insulator between the relay contacts (matchbook cover cardboard or the plastic from a coffee can lid works well) that you have cut to fit.
9. Replace relay cover, replace relay, replace IPEC cover, replace the footwell.
10. DONE!!
You will now have NO drl's and retain ALL of your APPROACH features. I have had mine this way for over three years and have had not a prob. Good luck and feel free to PM mewith any question you might have.
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Instructor
Joined: Mar 2006
Posts: 178
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Thanks for the input. I think I might go with de-energizing (pull the fuse) the circut. It only seems to affect the flash on lock feature for me. I've never used the approach light option on the DIC...
Burning Brakes
Joined: Feb 2006
Posts: 785
Likes: 1
From: Middletown PA
Originally Posted by allegro
OK here goes:
If you pull the #2 fuse you will LOSE some of the APPROACH features.
This is easy...I promise !
1. In the passenger footwell, lower the front carpet.
2. Remove the foot panel.
3. Locate the IPEC (Instument Panel Electrical Center) It looks like the fuse box next to the battery.
4. Remove the cover of the IPEC.
5. Turn it over and find the diagram of the components.
6. Locate relays 38 and 40. (38 controls the right DRL and 40 the left)
7. Pull each relay and carefully remove the cover.
8. Insert some type of insulator between the relay contacts (matchbook cover cardboard or the plastic from a coffee can lid works well) that you have cut to fit.
9. Replace relay cover, replace relay, replace IPEC cover, replace the footwell.
10. DONE!!
You will now have NO drl's and retain ALL of your APPROACH features. I have had mine this way for over three years and have had not a prob. Good luck and feel free to PM mewith any question you might have.
If you pull the #2 fuse you will LOSE some of the APPROACH features.
This is easy...I promise !
1. In the passenger footwell, lower the front carpet.
2. Remove the foot panel.
3. Locate the IPEC (Instument Panel Electrical Center) It looks like the fuse box next to the battery.
4. Remove the cover of the IPEC.
5. Turn it over and find the diagram of the components.
6. Locate relays 38 and 40. (38 controls the right DRL and 40 the left)
7. Pull each relay and carefully remove the cover.
8. Insert some type of insulator between the relay contacts (matchbook cover cardboard or the plastic from a coffee can lid works well) that you have cut to fit.
9. Replace relay cover, replace relay, replace IPEC cover, replace the footwell.
10. DONE!!
You will now have NO drl's and retain ALL of your APPROACH features. I have had mine this way for over three years and have had not a prob. Good luck and feel free to PM mewith any question you might have.
Team Owner
Joined: May 2004
Posts: 26,345
Likes: 231
From: SoCal
Originally Posted by rwsr50
If you have the Approach Lights selected in the DIC, when you approach the car and unlock it with your remote, the lights come on...but only under low light/dark conditions.
DH
Race Director
Joined: Apr 2004
Posts: 16,135
Likes: 5
From: Newberry FL
Cruise-In VIII Veteran
St. Jude Donor '07
Originally Posted by Dirty Howie
My lights flash and stay on till I open the door and I have #2 fuse pulled!!
DH
DH
I just pulled my #2 fuse and was done with it.