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Car Forum / Driving, Maintenance, Tuning / Maintenance and Repair / February 2005Daytime Running Lights on '97 Mazda 626
I have a problem with the daytime running lights on a '97 Mazda 626. They only work intermittently, and sometimes they stay on when the car is turned off. They have killed the battery more than once, so I want to disable them. I can't find any information specific to Mazdas, in fact a lot of sites don't list Mazda at all so it may be an aftermarket kit (we got the car used). Can anyone tell me what to look for, or how to disable the DRLs? > I have a problem with the daytime running lights on a '97 Mazda 626. > They only work intermittently, and sometimes they stay on when the car [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > kit (we got the car used). Can anyone tell me what to look for, or how > to disable the DRLs? These may help: http://www.miata.net/products/lights/mazda_drl_module.html http://www.miata.net/garage/cdrl/cdn-drl.htm  SignatureTeGGeR? > I have a problem with the daytime running lights on a '97 Mazda 626. > They only work intermittently, and sometimes they stay on when the car [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > kit (we got the car used). Can anyone tell me what to look for, or how > to disable the DRLs? If you have a '97 Mazda 626 with Daytime Running Lights, it's because you're in Canada, where DRLs are legally required. The reason yours are giving problems is that your DRL module has failed. It's not an uncommon failure. Find and unplug the module. You may need a factory service manual to find it. You can either replace it with a new factory module, or -- better and cheaper -- pick up the module available from www.webelectricproducts.com . DS In Canada? Nope, about 600 miles south of Windsor ON. My guess is it's an aftermarket module. Either way, will it be under the dashboard like the ones shown for the Miata? TeGGer's link gave me an idea of what to look for. > In Canada? Nope, about 600 miles south of Windsor ON. Ah. Then by all means, rip out the previous owner's aftermarket hack. You may have to dig around to find it -- there's no standardized location for an aftermarket DRL box. > In Canada? Nope, about 600 miles south of Windsor ON. My guess is it's > an aftermarket module. Either way, will it be under the dashboard like > the ones shown for the Miata? TeGGer's link gave me an idea of what to > look for. A shop manual will give you the location if it's a Canadian OEM swap-in and it's been installed the way the factory did it. If it's aftermarket, probably all you can do is hunt around for wiring modifications, which may lead you to it. Good luck. SignatureTeGGeR? Found the bastard and cut it out. Nothing under the dash looked suspicious, so I looked under the hood. I can't believe I didn't notice it before. About a 2" cube with a bundle of wires zip-tied to it. Power lead from the fuse box, ground wire, and wires to the headlights and winshield wiper motor attached with crimp on connectors. It doesn't have any kind of printing on it, so I don't know who to complain about. Anyway, {anonymous DRL module manufacturer} makes total crap and you shouldn't buy their products. > Found the bastard and cut it out. Nothing under the dash looked > suspicious, so I looked under the hood. I can't believe I didn't notice [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > complain about. Anyway, {anonymous DRL module manufacturer} makes > total crap and you shouldn't buy their products. Well, lessee...Could be Hamsar-Diversco: http://www.hamsar.com/drlkits.htm This is the first good reason I have seen for disabling a DRL system, but fixing them would be better. Every time I get on the road in heavy rain, fog, or other conditions where visibility is reduced, I wonder why some idiots won't turn on their lights. (It is the law here, by the way.) Actually, I am sure that most of these people aren't idiots ...they just forget. I was on the road in rain the other day, and noticed a driver tearing along in the passing lane at a high rate of speed. When she passed me, she was reading a damn book!! Now, that is an idiot. > Every time I get on the road in heavy rain, fog, or other conditions where > visibility is reduced, This is NOT what DRLs are for! If you think it is, you're part of a very serious problem. The correct lights for use in rain, fog or other conditions of reduced visibility are the low beam headlamps, including all front, side and rear parking/tail/marker lights. DRLs are for conspicuity in CLEAR weather during the day. Most DRL systems are dangerously inadequate for use in bad weather and/or at night, but that doesn't stop people thinking their DRL-equipped car has "automatic lights" and failing to turn on their proper lights when they're needed -- even up here in Canada where DRLs have been on all new cars since 1/1/90. Dont be such an a.s, Daniel. This newsgroup seems to have effected your once positive personality. My van doesn't have DRLs. I turn on my lights, as I am instructed to do by the laws of this state. My wife's Buick does have DRLs. It automatically sets low beams on and and the taillights work as well. You can override and set high beams if you need them, which is seldom the case. I came upon one jackass the other day in the rain who had turned on his parking lights. Better than nothing if you are facing him, but sets no taillights, no rear warning. > I came upon one jackass the other day in the rain who had turned on his > parking lights. Better than nothing if you are facing him, but sets no > taillights, no rear warning. If he had his parking lights on, the rear lights WOULD have been on. What you probably saw was a vehicle with turn-signal based DRLs. That is the only system I'm aware of that will illuminate the front amber signals without also illuminating the rear parking lamps. > Dont be such an a.s, Daniel. This newsgroup seems to have effected your > once positive personality. You must be new to the newsgroups. I've been here since '94. If you don't like my posts, you are cordially invited to disregard them. > I came upon one jackass the other day in the rain who had turned on his > parking lights. Better than nothing if you are facing him, but sets no > taillights, no rear warning. Nope. Turning on the parking lamps turns on the taillamps and sidemarkers, too. You came upon a jackass with a vehicle that had full-time turn signal DRLs. |
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