Anyway to disable daytime running lights?

Used our iMiev to provide electricity via an inverter while camping. During the day, I couldn't turn off the daytime running lights. Anyone know how to turn them off temporarily? As a side note, I had to turn off the car and wait about 5 mins before turning back on at night for the system to *not* turn the daytime running lights on again.

Having the ability to kill the daytime running lights makes this a really good emergency energy source. It runs fine with the running lights but that seems to be so wasteful.

Thanks!

If you can't find a way to disable them, then you could change them to LED bulbs to minimise the power usage - the process is covered here:

http://myimiev.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=14&t=2244

Put the parking brake on before you turn the key to the "start" position. This will disable the DRL's until you release the brake.

siai47 said:

Put the parking brake on before you turn the key to the "start" position. This will disable the DRL's until you release the brake.

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Wow this is useful! Thanks. This trick work for all cars with DRL?

There is a small box with a few relays in it under the hood. I think its on the passenger side. One of the relays controls the drl. You can pull it out to disable the drl. Put it back in to enable them.

Its a small green relay.


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