Installing daytime running lights

[Darth Menace]

Hey guys, I should be getting my viper here late next week. One of the stipulations for importing vehicles into Canada is the daytime running lights. I will have 45 days to get it done.

I was wondering if there is a place that sells daytime running lights for a 98 Viper, and if anyone has done it...can an average Joe do it himself?

thanks

 

[plumcrazy]

search around here, i think baz and rtttttded did a set and writeup

 

[DrumrBoy]

Congrats on the car....condolences on the DRL.....

 

[Chuck 98 RT/10]

Stupid law.

 

[Darth Menace]

search around here, i think baz and rtttttded did a set and writeup

His link doesn't work. Here is another similar thread that links to his original thread, but it's dead

 

[kblake905]

Hey guys, I should be getting my viper here late next week. One of the stipulations for importing vehicles into Canada is the daytime running lights. I will have 45 days to get it done.

I was wondering if there is a place that sells daytime running lights for a 98 Viper, and if anyone has done it...can an average Joe do it himself?

thanks

Not sure about a 98 but on an 01 you can buy a DRL Module that just plugs into the existing wiring harness, talk to Chuck Tator.

 

[FrgMstr]

Turn on the headlights?

 

[02 Graphite GTS]

Congratulations !!!
So which car did you end up buying?????

 

[Darth Menace]

Congratulations !!!
So which car did you end up buying?????

One from Wyoming, haha. Neither that we spoke of. Very similar to the one in Canada, but considerably cheaper even with the border fees. I'm hopeing to get the daytime running lights done soon so as to prevent someone from charging me to install them

 

[Darth Menace]

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this car

 

[02 Graphite GTS]

Very nice !!

I'm sure you'll have a few sleepless nights waiting for it to show up

 

[Darth Menace]

Very nice !!

I'm sure you'll have a few sleepless nights waiting for it to show up

I know...i've already had a tonne of sleepless nights just while studying/buying. I can only imagine come delivery

 

[spikeone]

I know my car had the harness, all I did was hit up a junkyard, took a DRL module out of a Neon 99 and plugged it in

 

[luc]

DRL module part # 4672271.
$100

 

[Bird325]

I have a Canada car in Texas and actually get an insurance discount due to the DRLs. I changed over my normal headlights (not the high beams) to Halogen lights a few months back and just recently noticed that my DRLs aren't on. Do the DRLs using the relay that the Canadian cars need run off the high beam at a lower power or off of the normal headlights?

 

[luc]

I have a Canada car in Texas and actually get an insurance discount due to the DRLs. I changed over my normal headlights (not the high beams) to Halogen lights a few months back and just recently noticed that my DRLs aren't on. Do the DRLs using the relay that the Canadian cars need run off the high beam at a lower power or off of the normal headlights?

The factory DRL module run the high beams at low power.
Make sure that the handbrake is not on when you test it since that will turn the DRL off

 

[Darth Menace]

DRL module part # 4672271.
$100

I dont know what company that is, but would this work?

 

[luc]

I dont know what company that is, but would this work?

It's a Dodge/Mopar part, just order it form any dealer or online

 

[Darth Menace]

oops, i guess my link didnt post. what about this: http://www.canadiantire.ca/AST/brow...1P/Daytime+Running+Light+System.jsp?locale=en

 

[Nitro187]

Darth, get that part from Canadian tire... then after your import is complete, package it back up and return it.

It's law to have it on any new car in Canada, or importing any vehicle newer than 1990.... but it's not required by law to have it on your vehicle afterwards.... so just take it back off, and get your money back.

 

[Darth Menace]

Darth, get that part from Canadian tire... then after your import is complete, package it back up and return it.

It's law to have it on any new car in Canada, or importing any vehicle newer than 1990.... but it's not required by law to have it on your vehicle afterwards.... so just take it back off, and get your money back.

That sounds like an idea to save me a bit of coin, BUT my real problem is actually finding out how to install daytime running lights so I can pass the safety

 

[VIPER BAZ UK]

do they not also need to be turned on in the PCM... Or is that just Gen3?????????

Not done it on mine but the wires are on the cross member passenger side..........

 

[Darth Menace]

wow,,,,this is confusing

 

[Garron]

The last Ontario member who had Canadian tire install that unit ended up with the wiring getting wrapped around the steering shaft, which in turn pulled a plug wire off, which in turn overheated the cat.

I posted the comments below in your other thread, but I will post it here as well, It costs more to do things right. In this case it is the parts, it is a five minute job to install.

Running lights are easy. Buy the real Chrysler day daytime module the part number is 04672271. The wiring plug is already there just plug it in to the module and bolt the module down with two bolts 06102132AA.

Do not jump things in the fuse box as a cheap "free" daytime lights kit. The fuse box is sold with the complete wiring harness. Chrysler put the module on a metal bar away from everything for a reason.

Garrett