Unbelievabrah wrote:semi-bump and piggy back on this question before i start snipping wires. I want to double check here first.
So i drive a 06 vibe base and have unpluged the auto head lights, but to disable the DRL. all i gotta do is snip this yellow wire (in the picture) Do i have to ground it or not? ive heard people say yes ground it, then people saying not to.
I haven't gone back through all the prior DRL disable threads to double check, but I do know absolutely that some years ago when I did it on my Vibe, I was 100% positive that if you used the "cut the yellow wire" method, you had to ground one end of the cut wire. There was a different wire, red with a white stripe, that you could just cut to disable and didn't require grounding. I cut that wire, and put a mating pair of terminals on the cut ends, and ran similarly terminaled wires to a switch left of the steering wheel. When I got rid of that car, it was easy to disconnect the wires, connect the terminals on the cut wire to restore it to OEM function.
I had that mod in the car for some years, and realized that I never really used the switch, always left the auto lights on, guess I had done it for just something to do. Haven't bothered to do it in the current Vibe.