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Old Dec 2, 2018 | 08:18 AM
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Something I've been wanting to do for years. Finally got around to it. Loving how it turned out. No more DRL highbeam flicker from the led 9005. Now the turn signal does all the work for bright white DRL and Amber turn signals and the led high beam can live it's best life... at night 😂. We wired it up so the DRL circuit turns off when fogs turn on.

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Old Dec 2, 2018 | 08:58 AM
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Very cool! I opted to simply turn the DRL off and run my Nike lights all the time as markers, but this is an original way to run them if DRL is required where you are (or if you just like them).

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Old Dec 2, 2018 | 10:23 AM
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Those nike light are very bright. What bulbs are you running in there?
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Old Dec 2, 2018 | 10:28 AM
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CJITTY, looks awesome man. I saw your post on Facebook as well. Is there a write-up on how to do this? I would love to make this upgrade!
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Old Dec 2, 2018 | 01:37 PM
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Thanks..those are the factory LED parking light strip under the headlight for the 2010-12 model

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Those nike light are very bright. What bulbs are you running in there?
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Thanks..no write up but I may do one down the road

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CJITTY, looks awesome man. I saw your post on Facebook as well. Is there a write-up on how to do this? I would love to make this upgrade!
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Old Dec 2, 2018 | 01:41 PM
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Thnaks. I would have done the same but they aren't bright enough for daytime. And the issue with our PWM style highbeam DRL causes flicker with loss of high beam if using a decoder/capacitor and it puts it to full power which is way too bright. So I wanted to do something totally different and utilze the turn signal for my DRL and it compliments my OEM led parking light strip perfectly for Dawn and Dusk..aka "Park Light Time' where I'm from 😁

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Very cool! I opted to simply turn the DRL off and run my Nike lights all the time as markers, but this is an original way to run them if DRL is required where you are (or if you just like them).

Nice work
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Old Jan 4, 2019 | 10:35 PM
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Can this be done to a 2008?
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Old Jan 5, 2019 | 10:02 AM
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Absolutely..works the same way

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Old Jan 6, 2019 | 08:50 AM
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Looks great!
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Old Jan 6, 2019 | 01:40 PM
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Interesting did you use some kind of module or? Might be easier than what I was thinking to do which is find a led bulb and a module of some sort that supports high beam and low beam and drls
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Old Jan 6, 2019 | 07:45 PM
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What kit did you use?
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VLED V6 Tritons
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Old Jan 7, 2019 | 10:53 PM
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VLED V6 Tritons
good to know but I was actually wondering if the rest was wired up manually?

Like what controls the turn signals to be drls now? And what switches them to turn signals ? And what controls them that they turn off when the fogs go on.... is this all not controlled by some module?

THANKS !
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You can't beat VLED products. They're not cheap, but boy are they good.
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