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Sorry about the blurry bright pics my iPhone camera is poo but they just look like normal drls but in the pic they look like fogs haha
Styling My DRL'S
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Styling My DRL'S
Sorry about the blurry bright pics my iPhone camera is poo but they just look like normal drls but in the pic they look like fogs haha
They look really good mate 
Nice! I think they'd look better in with the fog vent, but then the light you'd get would be compromised. Nice nevertheless
Guide? I'm sure many people would appreciate this
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Ill try make a guide sometime and originally wanted them on the fog covers but couldn't mount them on there
They do not appear to be DRL compliant, must go off or dim when headlamps are on.
Are they correctly 'E' marked
Are they correctly 'E' marked
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I wired them to my sidelights so there not really drls more of a led if you wanna say that
So why call them DRLs then? They look more like styling lights.
Come on MEP, hes done a good job lets not get fickly over the name of lights
Come on MEP, hes done a good job lets not get fickly over the name of lights
Not getting fickly, just making sure OP knows they've not got DRLs, just styling lamps, don't want them being ripped off thinking they've the real mccoy when they haven't.
Ahh fair enough, but IMO they look enough like DRLs to call them that even if they only come on at night. So maybe they are NRLs
xlTomm I still dont get why you didn't stick them on the fog light trim. You say you cant but why not?
xlTomm I still dont get why you didn't stick them on the fog light trim. You say you cant but why not?
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They do not appear to be DRL compliant, must go off or dim when headlamps are on.
Are they correctly 'E' marked
Are they legal then? I really hope not, fog lights are enough of a pain at night without these things popping up everywhere (not intended to be a rant at the op btw).
If not correctly 'E' marked, and if they are correctly 'E' marked as DRls they're not wired up to operate in conjunction with DRL regs so won't conform to construction of use / Lighting regs.
I would hazzard a guess that they arn't road legal probably fall under the same police mans opinion of under car neons
even the small position marker lights on a large trailer or caravan have to be (e) marked
I cannot see how these wont be road legal?
Advise how they confirm to vehicle lighting regs then. If they don't they're illegal, simple as
They do not appear to be DRL compliant, must go off or dim when headlamps are on.
Are they correctly 'E' marked
I saw quite a few cars on the way home with headlights on and DRLs on (they didn't look like they were dimmed)
One of them was a DS3 which famously has DRLs, one looked like a mondeo.
It looks to me like these cars don't turn off the DRLs automatically (cant confirm this, never driven a ds3 or mondeo) and it seems like one of those laws most people either don't know about (I didn't know this until today) or simply ignore
Maybe it would have been better to wire them up to the fag lighter and got a button to turn them on and off separately.
DS3 turn off completely, so more likely the idiot driving hadn't turned their headlights on. I think most Fords go off as well, but not 100% sure.
Fine for off road use, still won't comply for on road use though.
Not having a dig BTW, just don't want people becoming croppers with the coppers.
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The dlrs on my dad's Alfa dim automatically when the lights are on, I'm sure they all do that (if they don't turn off altogether).
Correct.
