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Activating daytime running lights - flash - 11-11-2015

lol - do what you want. i'm not looking to give the local constabulary any advantage by making myself more visible than necessary

Activating daytime running lights - az968 - 11-11-2015

I take every opportunity I can to crawl under my dash, allows me to flex my back in ways it doesn't normally get to bend....

I found a small panel below the dash with two relays plugged into it. From the relay layout on the inside cover of the main panel in the engine bay, it looks like there should be a relay panel of 5 relays (selector lever lock, catalytic converter control, relay gong, daytime running light, and free)?

Activating daytime running lights - MLB - 11-11-2015

Hey great opportunity to yank the "gong show" relay! (Most-annoying-feature-ever-fitted-to-a-car. Ever. IMHO)

:0)

Activating daytime running lights - az968 - 11-11-2015

Yep, will rip that puppy out next time I can contort myself to get under there.

Activating daytime running lights - EEZATOY - 11-11-2015

Ok here's pix of mine...

Activating daytime running lights - Bulti - 11-11-2015

A gong in a car. Who comes up with that stuff? :-)

Activating daytime running lights - flash - 11-11-2015

lol - the same people who think it's a good idea to run lights in the daytime

ba dum bum

Activating daytime running lights - az968 - 11-11-2015

Very curious. In the socket where Eezatoy has the daylight driving light relay mine has a type 53 relay, that's why I couldn't find a empty socket. The 53 appears to be a general purpose relay, including for the horns, fog lights, etc. It's a good relay, swapped it with the horn relay to test. So why would the PO install this relay there? Doesn't look like any post-production wiring has been done there. Maybe he was trying to make the daylight lights work with it?? Anyway, now I have a place to install the NLA relay if I ever find one Tongue

So, Bulti, why do we have gongs in our cars? Becuase our government decided people needed to be reminded if they left the key in the ignition and opened the door, or didn't fasten their seat belts, or left the headlights on with the key off, or if their significant other didn't think what they were wearing was appropriate for the event they were going to, whatever. But, you, living in one of those European nanny states where the government does the thinking for you obviously don't understand our our "live free or die" attitudes resist that sort of micro-management. Oh, wait, I just ruined my argument . Never mind.

Flash, you mean it's the same bureaucracy? Oh no!!!

Activating daytime running lights - vliegwielolaf1234 - 11-12-2015

I am intrested in the relay as well , did not look in the car yet if the wiring is the same .

But no luck finding the relay here , porsche says NLA .

Activating daytime running lights - az968 - 11-12-2015

The picture Eezatoy was nice enough to send shows where the relay goes, easy to check. Even Canada, where they are required, doesnt have them. Found it at a source in Europe but shipping may be prohibitive, checking on that. There is a wiring mod that appears to accomplish the same thing. Trying to find a semantic of the relay to see if a common one can be modified.

Flash may win this thread by default. lol

Activating daytime running lights - jimham968 - 11-12-2015

az - I would also like to buy the relay so if they could ship multiples in one package it might defray the cost enough to make it feasible.

Activating daytime running lights - az968 - 11-12-2015

So the source I found in Germany said they have only one and shipping to the US would be $65, the part is only $80! I've asked them to look for more.

Activating daytime running lights - MCL968 - 11-12-2015

That is really not a complex relay, should cost about 5 bucks at most. A work-around could be designed very easily with an off the shelf part.

Activating daytime running lights - wildcat - 11-12-2015

Quote: So why would the PO install this relay there? Doesn't look like any post-production wiring has been done there. Maybe he was trying to make the daylight lights work with it?? Anyway, now I have a place to install the NLA relay if I ever find one.

I don't know if the PO installed one but I've got one in that slot too. And I'd want to check to see what its there for... If anyone has any clues...

Activating daytime running lights - az968 - 11-12-2015

“Curiouser and curiouser!” Cried Alice! Why are 968s so different from one other?

Activating daytime running lights - Kim - 11-12-2015

I think that a VW or Audi one is the same.

Activating daytime running lights - Waylander - 11-13-2015

can you do a picture of all the numbers on the can, top and all four sides?

Quote:So the source I found in Germany said they have only one and shipping to the US would be $65, the part is only $80! I've asked them to look for more.

ask them how much to ship to the UK, and i will send it on to you in the US, cant be more than $10 to post from the UK

Activating daytime running lights - wildcat - 11-13-2015

Quote:That is really not a complex relay, should cost about 5 bucks at most. A work-around could be designed very easily with an off the shelf part.

Any chance of a picture of the schematic and a pix from the bottom to see the pins? I'd like to give it a shot. Yours goes in the slot on the drivers side? I'm surprised there's not one to replace the G 6 bridge.

Activating daytime running lights - az968 - 11-13-2015

Look at the pictures posted by Eezatoy about, that is the relay. you can check the pins by looking at the relay marked "53" in the main engine compartment relay panel, that fits in the socket under the instrument panel. I'm trying to find the scematic of the relay but no luck yet. Asked my local dealership to see if they could get. You're right, can't be that hard to make one. Lots of room for height in the the socket, just need to keep the same footprint.

Activating daytime running lights - Waylander - 11-14-2015

I would try a few breakers, as they were used in the 944S2 as well for country code 36 (CDN)

I asked the local dealer for information on this relay and that's what he told me