HID and DRL

HID and DRL

Ok I know we have talked about this before but is it necesary to disable the DRL's to get an HID kit. If so how hard is this to do. I mean would it take me an hour and is there any difficulty or what? CorollasBest you should come down and you can do your fog light trick too

yes DRL needs to be disabled for HID to be working or you will burnout hte ballast

Which is the best way to do the disable?

The easiset way is to just use a wiring harness connected directly to the battery as the source. This doesn't disable the DRLs but it gives the ballast the full 12 volts to function properly and not burn out. That is what i did and it works fine... I can show pictures if you want....

haha.. i got my HID without disabling my DRL and gues wat? my HID started to strobe! haha since there's not enough wattage going thro the ballast.. so then i turned off my life and then i did the ebrake trick. only problem now is my brake light is always on.. sucks..

In my opinion the best and easiest way to disable the DRL is the yellow wire trick. Clip the yellow wire that is comming out of the DRL relay box, and ground it. Then your lights function just like normal lights.

Yea that is what I am going to do. Thanks for posting though. Seems like definitly the best and cleanest way.

Ya, in my opinion its the best. Before i found it i did it my own way where i used a switch to completely cut power to the relay box. So when the switch was off, no headlights, even if you turned the headlight switch on, then if you turned my switch on it would just be like normal again.

But the yellow wire trick really is the best, after a while you will just forget you ever had DRL, i did. They function just like normal lights, its pretty nice!

What is this yellow wire trick you guys are talking about? How and where do I find out how to do this? Also, what is this fog light thing Blk03Corolla is talking about?

Go to www.corollatoys.org and under the DIY, look for "DRL Disable with Switch."