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Car Forum / Nissan / Nissan Cars / December 2006

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Daytime Running Lights malfunction

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EJD - 27 Dec 2006 21:19 GMT
Hi all

I'm having a problem with my 1992 Canadian Nissan NX 2000...the Daytime
Running Lights aren't working as they should.  (For those that don't have
them, DRL put on the high beams on a dim setting whenever the car is running
as a safety feature a-la Volvo).  What mine does is occasionally switch to
leaving the driver's high beam on high and shuts off the passenger's side
light altogether so people think I'm flashing them.   All lights work as
they should when I manually activate them, so it's not a bulb failure.

I'd like a way to bypass the DRL circuit altogether, but I had a look and it
looks as if the entire beam circuit goes through the DRL box.   I saw this
on the 'net for a Sentra of a different year, but my module had different
wiring.  I have the shop manual but for the life of me can't see any way to
bypass, and I begrudge replacing something I disliked in the first place!

Anybody have any suggestions?

TIA

John
JM - 28 Dec 2006 19:03 GMT
> Hi all
>
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> lights work as they should when I manually activate them, so it's not a
> bulb failure.

I had the same sort of problem with my 1994 Altima.  The problem turned out
to be some cold solder joints on the board inside the DRL module for the
relays that click over when you turn on the regular headlights.  I just
touched up the joints and it was perfect again, took about 5 minutes once I
figured out where the module was hiding (behind the kick panel ahead of the
passenger's door under the dash) and how to get it apart.

Hope that helps!
EJD - 30 Dec 2006 20:35 GMT
OK -  Thanks.  I'll give that a try.

John

> I had the same sort of problem with my 1994 Altima.  The problem turned
> out to be some cold solder joints on the board inside the DRL module for
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>
> Hope that helps!

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