1998 drl removal

Also, a thread said that there was a wire strip that could be cut behind the switch itself. There is many strips and it is not clear which one would do the job. so that didnt work either.

transit..no it wasnt, i got fed up of idiots pulling out in front of me and people walking out without looking since the police are only interseted in speeding and not good driving anymore. So i used them so there could be no excuse if i hit anyone or ran anyone over. (as a note, a police man was once more bothered about my fogs lights than 2 drunken lads pi**ing up the side of a wall next to my van, nice policing GB). Well, it just makes me laugh. There so called answers on the forum yet none work. One even spoke of 1999 cars having a module on the back of the light switch so the turning on lights and pulling levels system would work. So i went to Salvo near me to check this, and guess what there all the same DOH!! I really just wanted the option of turning them on or off at the light switch, oh well. P.S. the forum is great, but not on drl :(

You could take the bulbs out during the daytime, put em back in when it gets dark.

Have you tried the following sequence? Turn ignition off. Hold full beam on, turn ignition on Turn lights on to side light position, then off. Turn ignition off This was in a post about turning them on, but assume the same sequence might turn them off too. Oli

I've had the same prob you have, I've searched everywhere and nothing works, i thought the trick off cutting the strip on the back would do it but when i looked no such strip!!! I then thought at last when someone said cut the blue/yellow wire, but you more than most can understand my fruatration when i realised it only took main beam of and not the sides as well!!! B****y f'ing lights!!!!! i will go at them with a hammer one day!!! lol Well if you find out anymore tricks please let me know!!!! I don't think it's the fact the lights are on, it's more to do with having no b****y choice about it that really does my head in!!!

I have been looking at the haynes manual wiring diagram, i also need to set my electrical engineer dad loose with it and maybe a small rewire behind the switch itself might work. more to follow soon...........

I have mentioned in some threads before that it is not always possible to disable the DRL. Certainly I am adament that this is the case for my 2000 MY car as I invesigated doing it myself. You likely face the same problem with your motor. The problem you - and your Dad - will have I think is that the lights are all controlled by the CEM (central electronics module) and the switch does nothing other than provide inputs to this. Consulting the wiring diagram there are three wires coming out of the CEM to the switch. Call them A, B, C. In the three cases the connections are made as follows: posn 0 (DRL): A connects to B posn 1 (sidelights): All n/c posn 2 (On): B connects to C So one would think that cutting wire A so that posn 0 is the same as posn 1 would do it. Not so! Like this the sidelights are ALWAYS on even when the ignition is off. I know this because that's what happened to me after I cut a wire, I thought "yes, I've done it" got out the car and thought "umm... it looks like those sidelights are on". BTW the above is a good reason never to remove the light switch unit from the car and leave it off... you may well find your sidelights are permenantly on! Why does this happen, then? The reason: because (I presume) you can always turn sidelights on by putting the switch to position 1, even if engine is off. So the CEM assumes this is what is happening (which is fair point, as posn 0 has become the same as posn 1) and turns on front sidelights. Now the sidelights (front AND rear) are themselves interesting because it appears that they are enabled by the CEM WHENEVER the ignition is on. i.e there is bog all you can do about it and it has nothing to do with the position of the light switch. Although the switch is a double throw switch the second one isn't connected anywhere. So it would seem the only way out of this is to re-program the CEM (if that is even possible for the lighting function) or to insert additional suitably high current switche(s) into the wires to the sidelights and then cut the wire which connects to A (above), which is ALLEDGEDLY violet in colour (although I have a feeling mine wasn't). Pete