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Alright I put together a webpage showing how to put in the switch.http://dalenet.com/matrixvibe

Do you have Battery and Load backwards on your picture? It looks like the battery connection is coming out of the module, and your load connection is the wire running to the module. Is that correct?

I am pretty sure that is how I have it hooked up, and it works perfect.

I would like a way to rewire so that I can switch off the lights from automatically coming on, at night.

oh wait, this does both?

Yes this disables both DRL and Auto Headlights.

Hey, I have a question for you who is all so wise with headlights. My friend's got a Suzuki Esteem and he wants to disable his DRLs. WOuld I pull out the red a white wire from his car too? or are the wires different colors in different cars? Eitehr way could you tell me which wire I should remove? I forgot which wire we pulled out to disable my DRLs on my Vibe.

Each car maker has thier own DRL modules, and such each as different ways of disabling them. For the matrxi/vibe and other toyotas I know it's to cut the red/white wire. For my subaru I just unplugged the entire module and that did the trick. Other cars you have to pull out a fuse or relay. This site has some details for disabling DRL on many carshttp://lightsout.org

Great how-to Delmardale, this is just what I need to do. The security gaurds at the check point do not appreciate DRLs shining in their eyes.

Quote, originally posted by JohnC »Great how-to Delmardale, this is just what I need to do. The security gaurds at the check point do not appreciate DRLs shining in their eyes.Yeah, I live around DC and people are always complaing about DRL since they have to cut their lights when entering military facilities. DRL makes it hard and they get hassled by MP's

Nice breakdown man. This is an important mod for me, because the guards at my base get pissed as well. I just didn't know which wires were which. Thanks.

Thanks for the url

I found an easy way, IMHO, to get around the DRL issue. All I did was pop the sensor out of the dash and unplugged it. I then wrapped a thin piece of copper wire around the sensor wiring and the sensor so the wiring wouldn't drop down into the dash. Snapped the sensor back into the dash and now I have full control over the lights. The DRL's are still on, but everything else is controlled by the stalk. It took less than five minutes.

DRL questionI bought the Toyota Switch Part #00550-42966, and it only has 2 prongs on the back, not 3. Will this still work? How?On the webpage write up (http://dalenet.com/matrixvibe/): Where does the load wire come from? Below step 10?

a switch only has to disconnect one wire to work, so if you snip the wire that is controlling something and hook it up to the switch, it should work.

Ok i just want to double check.If i do this mod, I will have a switch that can turn off the head lights whenever i switch it. BUT when the switch is "on" the DRLs and auto lights will work still?

Yes, switch on: DRLs and Auto lights work. Switch off: no DRLs and the headlights are manual to operate.I installed a switch on the red w/ white stripe wire at pin #12 on the DRL module. I used the Toyota Switch Part #00550-42966, which for me had 2 prongs (not 3 as listed by Dalenet.com), no ground.It worked great.

Year late, but just ordered the switch. Dont know where you got the switch for $7, but the local Toyota place here said it was $17. Oh well. Thanks for the write up. Edit: Switch is no longer available.....great. Kills this project.

you can get a switch at any auto place, actually, they even had them at Walmart....sure it's not the perfect matching Toyota one, but it still works.I'm going to give this project a shot sometime in the next month

Found the switch on eBay. Not sure if this switch is available through Toyota, but you can try #00550-35976. The light on the switch is small and round instead of the rectangle one.

Attached files

Just did the mod. Heres a pic. Nice mod, not really hard, once you get up inside the dash. Now I can control my own lights. lol

Where does the load go to?

not to bring up and old thread but i saw somewhere to get your fogs to go on with your parking lights you use a tap in connector and cut the green/orange wire and tap it into the green/white wire......i did this but my fogs dont come on with my parking lights lol any ideas as to where i went wrong......i think i saw another green orange under there but i dont want to keep cutting wires

Quote, originally posted by hskater26 »not to bring up and old thread but i saw somewhere to get your fogs to go on with your parking lights you use a tap in connector and cut the green/orange wire and tap it into the green/white wire......i did this but my fogs dont come on with my parking lights lol any ideas as to where i went wrong......i think i saw another green orange under there but i dont want to keep cutting wireshttp://matrixowners.com/?showtopic=31171

or locally available from http://forums.genvibe.com/zerothread?id=12376 and http://forums.genvibe.com/zerothread?id=32111

cool thanks for the links i actually looked at them both before i just misread it and was cutting wires in the wrong place....... but it works now

should have/ could have asked me at the meet to do this for ya...

i wanted to do it at the meet and had planned on it but i didnt think about it till we were pretty much leaving haha

dont worry ill try an think of something for you to do at the boston meet

theres a picture of it

buy my h4/9003 hid kit?? lol 125and i will help you install them.

what k is it?

6000klow... halogen high

sold

and i have absolutely no clue how to install them so ill def need your help lol

no problem

Quote, originally posted by hskater26 »and i have absolutely no clue how to install them so ill def need your help lolI'm jealous!

ok i guess no one heard me at the meet.. i had the HID kit there and asked when everyone was eating if anyone wanted a HID kit.. I helped Joe sort threw his and get his working.. I have installed 4kits in my car alone and I am about to install yet another kit in my parents new 05 Matrix.

I heard ya... just couldn't afford it (wish I could of though). That's why I'm jealous.

oooooooo my bad... lol

dont worry once we get it all installed ill take some pictures for you

Great I'd love to be able to do this b/c I want to get HID fog lights and its not good for them to be on and off all the time, better to leave them on.But unfortunately I'm Canadian apparently we're wired differently up here hmmAnyone know how to do this for a Canadian Spec?Thanks

The link appears to be broken

Quote, originally posted by unisilv05 »The link appears to be broken :-(Try this one: http://forums.genvibe.com/zerothread?id=38372

BlueCrush wrote:Quote, originally posted by unisilv05 »The link appears to be broken :-(Try this one: http://forums.genvibe.com/zerothread?id=38372" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Sorry to revive the old thread. But the link above seems to be different from the topic of this thread. This thread topic was how to disable DRL and auto headlights. The link above is for keeping ASL while removing DRL.

Basically what I'm looking for is a way to install a switch that will give me control over the lights just using the stick on the column. I want to be able to turn off DRL and auto headlights. I'm sure this is somewhere in the forum but I am having trouble finding it using the search. Is this as simple as cutting the red/white wire to pin 12, and running them through a switch?

I am also having trouble reading the diagram in the link above.

Thank you!