Hi,
I have a Canadian 2015 XLT with the regular non LED head lights. As you probably know here in Canada we are required to have DRL enabled at all times. My thing is that I do not like to have the low lights on at all times even if they are dimmed I find its fugly.


I would appreciate some help and opinions and options.
I was thinking about buying those LED DRL from eBAY than plug them and than remove the relay from Ford.
I could re-wire the fogs to be the drl and buy some of those 4" square an plug them as my fogs.
Or I could get some opinions.


Thank you

 

I believe FORScan can clear up this issue. Check the FORScan sticky.

 

thanks however this takes care of the disabling of the drl and I want drl just not the low beams

 

So far it seems the DRLs can only be turned off on the 2015-16 trucks. The 2014 and older trucks the DRLs can be switched to the orange park lights - wish it was style same on the newer trucks. My DRLs are off and I turn the park & fogs on manually

 

If you plan on installing a separate DRL led module, you will still need to disable the low beam DRL on the truck if you want those off. With FORscan you can disable them on a Canadian truck. On the American truck, it can be disabled on the IPC.

 

I have led switchback bulbs from 4x4truckleds.com for my park/turns. I have been wanting to use these for my DRL's also, but have not been able to do it with a software mod using FORscan. So I am considering a hard wire mod to do it, this is the plan. I will use a DRL module to run the lights, then when the headlights come on, the DRL module shuts off and the lights get the signal from the truck like normal, using diodes to keep from back feeding the circuits. A DRL module that has a cut-out wire could be used, which gets it's power from a circuit which is on only when the truck is on. In the fuse box under the hood, you put an add-a-fuse on the 10A at #97. A DRL module like this can be used, the turn signal wires would not be used in this case.
http://www.ebay.com/itm/LED-Daytime-...-/371713237485

Attached is a rough sketch of the proposed wiring. I plan on using something like these for the diodes.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0...=ATVPDKIKX0DER

The DRL option would need to be set to OFF in the instrument panel, and headlight switch can be set to auto. I replaced my halogen low beams with LED's also. Plan on doing the hi beams and fogs too.

 

This is great information / ideas that I was talking about

 

This sounds promising. Although I don't think you need that ebay module. You can just use a relay that's triggered by switched power. So anytime the ignition is on, the "DRL"'s are on, which is the point anyways. So just completely bypass the +12v from the parking lights wire through the relay and you're done.

 

Thanks for the tip. A relay would likely be cost less too. I already have the module from another abandoned lighting project I can use though. I thought that the LED lights needed an LED driver in the module?

 

Right, I'm talking about something else here. What I was talking about was replacing the turn signal bulbs with LED ones which have built-in drivers and use those as DRL's. Or just leave the regular stock bulbs and they can also be used as DRL's...


If you're buying a set of extra lights to use as DRL's, then just wire from the relay to wherever their input power goes.


If you're wiring your fogs to be DRL's using switched power, you'll wire a relay into 12v and switched power so that when your ignition is on, the fogs are on. Note that doing it this way means they will always be on when the key is on and you won't be able to manually turn them off without adding an extra switch to cutoff the relay trigger power.


If they're LED's and have a separate driver, then wire the relay into the driver that comes with them.


No need for a separate DRL harness in almost any case since all they really are is a pre-wired relay and it's much cheaper to just buy some wire and a relay and do it yourself.