DRL on with interior dash illuminated

You can actually have DRL with fog without using headlights as well.

 

Auto headlights (and auto climate) ftmfw.

Will never own a daily driver without them again.

 

Haha! What is this? I rhetorically asked about having your headlights on during fog so OTHER drivers can see YOU and you responded with this?

Me: what time is it?
You: Christmas is December 25th...

.......


Haha thanks for making my day!

 

The lights in the dash should be tied to the switch on every vehicle to prevent that. For the life of me, I can't understand why any manufacturer would have it differently in the age of digital dashboards.

 

I was driving a hoopty while I was getting my ECU unbricked. Old school gauge backlighting tied to parking light output. I didn't like it. The gauges were so dark.

I agree that people are always driving around in new-ish cars thinking that illuminated gauges = headlights on but they need to learn that there is an indicator for the lights now. I see this as a temporary issue as more and more cars are coming equipped with automatic headlights.

 

You find it necessary to be rude for no reason?

 

Back to the OP question, the answer is no...you need the parking lights on to illuminate the cluster lighting and DRL simultaneously. Sure, you can hack up your shit on a brand new truck to change it, but that's at your own peril...

 

I honestly wasn't trying to be rude...

Sorry.

 

Same thing in Vancouver. There are thousands of idiots driving around with no lights on at night. A few months ago I drove behind a Prius with its lights off in complete darkness and pouring rain. I was a few vehicles behind him for about 30 minutes on the highways. In that time frame several cars (each of which was immediately behind him) flashed their lights at him - no change. We happened to take the same exit, I pulled up next to him and told him his lights were off. He replies "no they're not" and drives off as another car behind him flashes him. Idiots everywhere.

 

Does anyone else feel like some DRL's are too bright? To the point where drivers will utilize them rather than headlights? I only ask because i've had a few instances where i'd come up behind a car in the early morning that wouldn't have any rear lights on (which tells me they don't have any lights on) only to pass them and see their DRLs on. It's been mainly newer Jeep Cherokees and a couple new Subaru Outbacks. I'm still leaning towards an inattentive driver but was curious to hear others' ideas.

 

Oh man! I suppose the problem stems from trying to help out a Prius driver. The minivan owner of this decade.

Yes. Everywhere!

On the highways here, every group of cars has at least one running with high beams, day or night. I've tried flashing folks. Only about once a month does someone figure it out and go back to low beams. Fogs on 24/7, most are miss-aimed (rock hits?). And, the DRL debacle. It's an epidemic.

I honestly thought that riding higher in a Taco would improve it or at least notice it less. Sadly, not.

 

Yes. I believe this is because some manufacturers used dimmed high beams as DRLs. Being aimed high, they throw enough light even dimmed to see well enough in the dark. Only recently (last year?) did Subaru switch to a row of LEDs like our Tacos.

It is one of the things that I did appreciate about GMs cars / trucks. They used ambers for DRLs.

In the end, the full time backlit gauges are the real culprit.

 

If you've ever sat in the drivers seat of a Subaru, you'd understand why the confusion. You hop in the garage, turn on the car the headlights are on and the dash is lit up exactly like it is when the headlights are on. So you go, none the wiser that you have to flip the switch to turn on the rear lights. Doesn't make any sense at all. If the dash was dim, then you'd realize you have to turn them on. But for whatever reason, they don't do it that way. I'm so glad Toyota does it the correct way.

 

You betcha.

#1. Never read the owners manual. Never tried all the switch positions and walked around the car to look at the results.

I've tagged two hipster styled dudes in two days that pulled out of gas stations with their gas caps dangling and the door open.

They seemed pretty clueless (staring at me in disbelief), but both were gracious enough to say thank you.

 

I've yet to see it with my own eyes, but my wife has seen three folks drive off with the nozzle still in the filler. It has become bad enough around here that a few stations have posted signs with $100 fees to reconnect the hose.

 

I'd love to know the root cause. I'm sure it varies. And inattention would be the #1 answer, but that is more often than not a mask for the real cause.

Medication (legal and otherwise), cell phone, over tired, emotional stress, etc.

Or just a ditz.

And then they are navigating a 3,000+ # vehicle at 40 on congested roads.

Buckle up boys and girls.

 

Too right.

I've asked, but she only looked up after she heard the noise.

My operating assumption for drive offs is that the folks go back inside their car. They here the nozzle click off and go (which was shown to cause sparks from static electricity). It could be phone or radio related. Myself, I spend the time logging the MPGs and cleaning the windshield and wipers. Although, it is killing me that Costco doesn't have towels or squeegees now that I'm filling up there.

 

As someone who worked at a gas station all through high school and college, I can confidently say this happened a minimum of twice per month. Thankfully the breakaway valves made the switchout about a 15 minute fix.

 

I run DRL's during the day and swap to the final switch mode for the headlights when required, sometimes I'll utilize the DRL + tailights + illuminated dash when it's slightly dark, but still day so I can enjoy the climate control knob mod some more.

 

Any general stats for what the peeps were doing before hitting the skinny pedal?