exchange fog lights for day time run lght

2012paddy2012

Is there anywhere that would take out my fog lights and replace them with day time running lights
Thks

colm_mcm

What bulb fitment are your fogs?

I'd be getting a LED version of the bulb, they're rubbish as a light but grand for DRL
Keep the original bulb holder etc.

Then get an auto electrician to wire them up with a relay so they switch off when you turn the headlights on.

2012paddy2012

colm_mcm wrote: »

What bulb fitment are your fogs?

I'd be getting a LED version of the bulb, they're rubbish as a light but grand for DRL
Keep the original bulb holder etc.

Then get an auto electrician to wire them up with a relay so they switch off when you turn the headlights on.

Oh thats a great idea I am getting it in fri I presume its standard fog light - I can use the fog light switch to put them on - I would need a relay jusy for the led bulbs would I?.thanks

colm_mcm

I'm not an electrician but you just need a feed from the ignition (dunno if you'd need a relay setup for powering LEDs)
You'd have a feed that runs to power the LEDs when ignition is on, the relay would then be used to interrupt that supply when the headlights are turned on.

You may as well get LEDs for the number plate lights and parking lights too. Dunno if duster has multiplex wiring so check the right type to get

colm_mcm

Just thinking, aren't DRLs manditory now, so is it the headlights that come on on the Duster?

Bpmull

colm_mcm wrote: »

Just thinking, aren't DRLs manditory now, so is it the headlights that come on on the Duster?

I was thinking that I thought all new cars in Europe had to have DRL's fitted as standard for the last year or so.

colm_mcm

Bpmull wrote: »

I was thinking that I thought all new cars in Europe had to have DRL's fitted as standard for the last year or so.

Think so too, but they're not all LED, the likes of the Avensis uses the headlights on low spec models.

Dunno how you'd work around the Dacias DRLs, maybe they can be disabled and replaced by the homemade setup

colm_mcm

I think the Valeo foglight for the Duster uses H11 bulbs.

If so you're looking at something like these?

http://www.ebay.ie/itm/2x-80W-White-LED-Fog-Daytime-Light-Lamp-bulb-HeadLight-DRL-H11-H7-H8-Bright-CREE-/190968867050?pt=UK_Light_Bulbs&var=&hash=item2c76a1a8ea

Bpmull

colm_mcm wrote: »

Think so too, but they're not all LED, the likes of the Avensis uses the headlights on low spec models.

Dunno how you'd work around the Dacias DRLs, maybe they can be disabled and replaced by the homemade setup

Just looking at pics there they don't seem to have a seperate bulb for DRL's. So maybe they use the parking light as DRL and just use a brighter bulb that dulls down when you turn on the actual lights I think that's the way it's set up on some cars. They don't have to be led just have to have bulbs that act as a DRL whether there parking bulbs or specific bulbs just used as DRL's .

colm_mcm

I reckon its the dipped lights, have read about people in the uk having to activate the DRLs as it wasn't done in the PDI

Bpmull

colm_mcm wrote: »

I reckon its the dipped lights, have read about people in the uk having to activate the DRLs as it wasn't done in the PDI

Maybe I didn't think a car would used dipped lights as the DRL's. They could all be coming in with the DRL's switched off. By law they just have to have the feature installed. On most cars you can turn them on and off using the trip computer etc.

2012paddy2012

colm_mcm wrote: »

Just thinking, aren't DRLs manditory now, so is it the headlights that come on on the Duster?

Not for duster

Bpmull

2012paddy2012 wrote: »

Not for duster

Just looking on other forums because the duster was designed in 2010 it doesn't need them by law. As apparently if the car was designed in or after 2012 it has to have them. And yet there is loads of 11 12 cars going around with them. Apparently there an optional extra on the duster in the uk not sure if it's the same in Ireland. So look like lots of manufactures just choose to put them on cars even if they weren't required as the cars were designed before 2012. I know on my parents octavia it has them and that's 2011 but yet the basic classic spec octavia of the same year didn't have DRL's at all.

colm_mcm

Because it technically came out before the laws came in?

Edit, what he said ^