They’ll hear you way before they see you, but I’m sure someone will come along with an answer for you shortly.

 

Agree with this 100%. Turning off lighting will do nothing. These animals, especially deer have exceptional hearing, they know you are there, running lights on or off. I wouldn't bother with this.

 

Our Walmart has camo pattern duct tape.

 

DRL fuse?

 

not likely to have a fuse for em , it’s all controlled by the BCM . you could try the carista app on your phone with an OBD2 adapter . i used it to turn my foglights into DRL’s on my 2021

 

Why not simply "UNSCREW" the bulbs out of the sockets?

 

Because the P4X runs on LEDs that are on a chip board. They are not meant to be replaced, except for the entire housing.

 

I'd like to find a way to disable them too... My wife and I like to go to drive in movies, and in the winter half the people there have their cars or trucks idling to run the heater. In my new frontier I'd be pissing people off with the DRLs all lit up. LOL

 

parking break for this.

 

The OP question is valid. Almost every vehicle I have owned in the last ten years, there is always a need to disconnect the DRL. Years ago, not sure if it still holds true, you could not drive on certain military bases with lights illuminated during certain hours. Also, being in LE, and working security details in various vehicles, I needed to have my lights off for surveillance purposes. Some vehicles are easy to disconnect, some need to be programed out. I'm sure someone will figure this feature out as I know several members have run into the DRL fuse trying to connect accessory lights (Raptor/Taco lights in the grill). Maybe one of those members could chime in here on their findings??

 

Anyone?? Buller??

 

You could find the switch on the parking brake lever and then figure out how to bypass / Add a switch in an accessible area to trick the truck in to thinking you have the parking brake set.

 

I do believe that's how the municipal garage did the town's patrol vehicles years ago?? I'm not 100% sure. I would think by now, a simple relay or fuse pulled from the fuse box would be the way to go nowadays, but I am not a electrical expert. There were couple vehicles I owned that my local tech made a "jumper" in the engine fuse box which was easy to disable/enable at will

 

If you pull the Clearance LH and RH fuses under the hood it disables the DRLs. I just experimented with this while installing raptor style lights in my grill.

 

One click on the parking brake should break the lighting circuit and not cause the shoes to move much, if at all.

 

Interesting.. My 2022 S model CC, 4x4 does not have DRL.

It's kind of annoying to me. With no bright trim work and the color the truck is, I've had people flash their headllamps at me at dusk out on our country roads, where it's not quite dark enough to kick on the auto headlamps yet.

 

You sure you have no DRL?? I thought those were mandated years ago?? Even halogen lights?

 

Unfortunately, the emerg. Brake solution didn't work. Thanks for the suggestion. Kennyratt

 

Well ,it does work. My bad . Kennyratt

 

I just bought one last week and was also wondering the same thing. Thanks to your post, I learned that when the parking brake is applied, the lights are off, but once the parking brake is off, the lights come back on. Let me know if I have that right and if there has been any fix please. Also, I can not get any of my 3 iPods to work in the regular USB slot. I have used 5 different cords including a USB-C cord to 30 pin iPod connection and still nothing, despite the website saying that it does play iPods. I wanted to post the link where it says that, but this site won't let me because this is my first response.

I figured out that it didn't work after I purchased it and before I drove it off the lot. My salesman did not know what to do and couldn't care less. Thanks!

 

I am confused. You can turn the lights off and keep them off?

 

The lights are off while idling , sitting still. Kennyratt

 

FYI you can disable the DRL using Carista. If you have an android phone and an OBD BT dongle, send me a PM I can send the APK

Carista

caristaapp.com

 

I really don't care they stay on. years ago when vehicles had them I couldn't stand it but I am a slow adaptor to change
Anyway the only time this was troublesome was going to a local (approximately 1 mile) Christmas light display and everyone had to shut off all the lights. Guy at the gate looked at me like I was a dumb **** and was clueless on how to turn them off

 

I really don't care they stay on. years ago when vehicles had them I couldn't stand it but I am a slow adaptor to change
Anyway the only time this was troublesome was going to a local (approximately 1 mile) Christmas light display and everyone had to shut off all the lights. Guy at the gate looked at me like I was a dumb **** and was clueless on how to turn them off

I volunteer at the local Christmas parade. It is at night and every entry has to have at least 500 lights. Drivers are instructed that running lights are okay but to turn headlights off. A lot of drivers have no clue how to do this. I carry sheets of cardstock and painters tape to cover head lights if necessary.

 

Stumbled on this tread. My first thoughts were they were night vision hunting. Now I need to figure a way to shut off these drls so I can "justify" buying night vision to hunt boar. This site always makes me want to spend money.

 

See post #26.

 

I am not sure if it would be the same but on my 2019 I pulled the DRL relay but then the left high beam would not work. The relay actually grounds the left high beam bulb so I found the ground wire on that left high beam, ground it to the body and its now all good. Low beams work, high beams work and no warning lights on the dash plus no DRL.

 

Super old post but had to answer if someone else hasn't already, you can jump the wires to the switch on the parking brake itself to make the vehicle think that the brake is on even though it's not.

 

What wires? A bit more info would help...

 

Why don't you just pull the DRL relays?

 

This is extremely simple with carista. 31 bucks on amazon.

 

Carista website shows it doesn’t support a 2021+ is this not true ?

 

Carista website shows it doesn’t support a 2021+ is this not true ?