After-market DLRs.

Steve059

The regulations are quite clear about the dimensions within which the Day Running Lights (DRLs) should be fitted.

Making them switch off when the existing lights are switched on simply requires a Single Pole Double Throw (SPDT) relay.

Lum

You want to put aftermarket DLRs on your car?

While this would certainly make you more visible, can you even fit 25 miles of railway track on a modern family car? Even if you can it might affect the handling fuel economy.

Consider fitting DRLs instead.

gilbert_and_sullivan

Oh please no, those OE fairy lights as fitted to Range Rovers (including the Ewok), Citroen DS3's and Audis look silly/camp enough already, sticking some LEDs on a car not designed to take them will look even worse..if thats possible.

poppasmurf_bewdley

I have to agree that daytime running lights are more of a distraction than anything else on the road these days. That Citroen with the two vertical ones at the front looks particularly obnoxious.

The old Volvo 740, which originated DRL's was the right way to go, not LED lights which are too bright under most daytime conditions.

londonTiger

very experience car designers with years and years of training and experience design where and how to place lights on cars amongst other things.

These strips are designed by people who have no design experience and if you use their kits you'll just make your car look tacky and very barry.

Dont become a barry boy.

gilbert_and_sullivan

londonTiger wrote: »

very experience car designers with years and years of training and experience design where and how to place lights on cars amongst other things.

Would that include VW/Audi experts that manage to put silly little indicators inside and beside brake lights and headlights so they become almost invisible in the light wars, equally useless in sunlight.

londonTiger

gilbert_and_sullivan wrote: »

Would that include VW/Audi experts that manage to put silly little indicators inside and beside brake lights and headlights so they become almost invisible in the light wars, equally useless in sunlight.

well indicators flash. it should be fairly easy to notice as one side would be flashing and the other not. so you can tell them apart that way.

brake lights and tail lights are also next to each other and nobody has any issue telling them apart

CKhalvashi

Building_Surveyor wrote: »

Personally I don't see the point in DRLs. If the car didn't come with them I wouldn't bother.

This is my view on it, too.

This may be partly because my car is usually so filthy that it doesn't look amazing anyway, as well as my only care being how comfortable the car is, and how much is costs over 18-24 months/100k miles.

Someone mentioned something about the age of a car. My plate is 1 number and 3 letters. I don't care how new my car is, or how new it looks, as long as it's reliable, comfortable and fairly cheap overall.

albionrovers

I put my side lights on every time I start my car.

Completely mental, I know ....

gilbert_and_sullivan

londonTiger wrote: »

well indicators flash. it should be fairly easy to notice as one side would be flashing and the other not. so you can tell them apart that way.

brake lights and tail lights are also next to each other and nobody has any issue telling them apart

and some fell on stony ground.

Look at mk 5 VW Golfs and similar year Passats and Audi A4s for a lesson in how not to design rear lights.

Then enjoy the garish DRL's that Audi/Land Rover have put around the headlights on their latest models...they need to recruit some experts with taste.

A child couldn't do a worse job with left over Christmas lights.