Daytime Running Lights
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DRLs are a car memory option. Once enabled, as in your case, to disable this feature requires a visit to the Stealership. If the car is new to you, you should first review the list of both car memory and key memory options that are available so you don't get gang banged over time. If you bought the car at the dealer, he should have explained your options and given you chance to come back later and get your car set up (mine didn't do it either but he programmed the features I wanted later at no charge). You also might want to have the "virtual alarm" activated (the clown nose will flash like the car's alarmed even though there is no alarm installed).
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I don't think the advantageous outweigh the disadvantageous. It's good cuz it helps with your car's visibility. However, I'm surrounded by morons that wouldn't be able to see a Sherman tank if it were parked on their hood. Any visibility advantageous would be outweighed by the fact that I'm just that more noticeable to cops.
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Hey ya'll, another advantage to having them off is the exceptional look of the Angel Eye halo's without the some what ugly distraction of the day time running lights. The look of just the halo's is pure classic bimmer, while the day time running look is a look of old people driving safely... Just my two and a half cents... Happy Motoring.[driving2]
Zach, angel eyes, only if you after marketed them. not even offered on the 3er until the e60s came around.
DDRs became popular due to a study that came out of Canada, where its foggy and gets dark early or whatever, thus having the lights on helped w/ visibility.
but here's my thing, you can turn the damn lights on yourself, when you think you need them on. i think running with them takes away from teh look of the car. (it was actually the first thing i requested when i picked up my car.) until proven otherwise, i believe it to be antoher knee jerk reaction consumers had which led to a mostly failed marketing by GM. remember the stpuid "your lights are on!" saturn commercial? i took it as, 'so, turm them off and stop smirking dumbarse!!' why can't people come up w/ something actually useful? alas, toyotas and GM and some other manufacs have it as a standard option, and can't diable it..
DDRs became popular due to a study that came out of Canada, where its foggy and gets dark early or whatever, thus having the lights on helped w/ visibility.
but here's my thing, you can turn the damn lights on yourself, when you think you need them on. i think running with them takes away from teh look of the car. (it was actually the first thing i requested when i picked up my car.) until proven otherwise, i believe it to be antoher knee jerk reaction consumers had which led to a mostly failed marketing by GM. remember the stpuid "your lights are on!" saturn commercial? i took it as, 'so, turm them off and stop smirking dumbarse!!' why can't people come up w/ something actually useful? alas, toyotas and GM and some other manufacs have it as a standard option, and can't diable it..
Yes but of course Average Joe, I do mean after market. I added Angel Eye Halo's after market to my bimmer and the DRL's made the look gawdy and ugly. I know the DRL's add safety and visibility but I must say I like the pure look of a bimmer with halo's vice the sterile DRL look. Just my two and a half cents... Happy Motoring.[driving2]
Correct me if I'm wrong.. but not all E46's can be programmed... I've tried and many have been unsuccessful to program my DRLS off. The reason why I want them off is because of my Halo DDE's. For now, I just unplugged them. I got used to the dash telling me my lights are out.
So far up here in Toronto, '00's can't be programmed off, '01's haven't been tried yet, and 02's and up can be programmed off.
DRL's however are mandatory by-law here in the province of Ontario - Canada along with other b.s. traffic acts.
So far up here in Toronto, '00's can't be programmed off, '01's haven't been tried yet, and 02's and up can be programmed off.
DRL's however are mandatory by-law here in the province of Ontario - Canada along with other b.s. traffic acts.
There is no way to turn them off unless you have the dealership do it. You must have access to a BMW diagnostic computer. The ECU reset diagnostic/reset tools such as the Peake Research tool do cannot do it.
On the E46, I'm 99% sure that the DRL is not a separate bulb. It is a lower power setting for the high beams. If you remove the bulb you have no high beams.
On the E46, I'm 99% sure that the DRL is not a separate bulb. It is a lower power setting for the high beams. If you remove the bulb you have no high beams.