POLL: For those who have DTRL and its melting your lights.

Good luck.

There is no electronic flasher available to replace the 12-pin unit used on trucks with DRL.
There used to be a unit, and VLEDs still lists it.... as backordered.
It's been backordered for 2 years.

 

Great!! I was affraid someone was going to say that.

Oh well, thanks for the update.

 

Well last and final up date . I went ahead and did the green wire with red stripe mod and it worked like a champ. No more melting of lights.

 

Wait...what mod is this green wire/red stripe?

Personally, I replaced the headlights with new DEPO lights and switched from 4157 bulbs to 3057. I know its only a couple watts less, but I'm hoping it will be enough. Fingers crossed.

 

There is a write up and I 'm not sure where it is , I will try to find it but it talks about a wire coming off the DTRL module that powers the DTRL. By cutting this wire it disables only the DTRL and your turn signals still work properly. The module is on the side of the fuse panel under the dash by the steering column. Hope this helps. If I can find the link I will post it .

 

http://www.tacomaworld.com/forum/lighting/85326-dtrl-toggle-switch-mod-stealth-mode.html

This guy put in a switch, I just cut the wire on my 2009, worked perfect with no side effects.

 

That would be the one !! Only I opted out of doing the switch. Yes it do's work perfect!!!

 

You were lucky you stopped there.

I finally took mine out of the box and tried to install them today.
I have the Depo housings, and I was able to get them to mount up (they were pushing on the lens).
Hit the turn signals and it blew the 15a fuse.

These not only do not fit the Tacoma housing, they are not the 3157CK wiring and do not work with the Tacoma.

Will Jumpers work on a 2-wire socket?

 

What bulbs have you been running? I don't want to melt my new housings...again.

 

I have the adapter harness but have not yet installed it.
I'm wanting to get into LED or a lower wattage lamp before doing the conversion.

 

The lowest wattage bulb, that I'm aware of, is the 3057. Its only 1.66 watts less (26.88 vs. 28.54), but it was the least I could find. I hope it will be enough not to melt again.

 

Or a 1 ohm, 40 watt power resistor in series with the lamp. That'll knock it down by 4 watts or so, and shouldn't be enough to cause hyperflash.

 

I did the green wire snip, too. It was AFTER melting the lenses and sockets, replacing the whole headlight assemblies, installing LEDs and doing the blinker shave modification to get the correct flash rate......If I'd known about the green wire snip in the first place, I would've just done that and did away with my DTRLs first. What a great find!

 

If I was going to add inline resistors, I would just go ahead and go LED's. Back in the day, that's how we had to wire motorcycle lights. I just didn't want to do that this time because I HATE the heat build up of those damn inline resistors.

 

Inline resistors reduce current draw and wattage.

LED retrofits require parallel resistors to bring the current back up to spec, and they run hot.

With an inline resistor, the resistor will be carrying only a few watts.

And I agree, I would not run LED with parallel resistors on a DRL application where they are always on.... at least not without a resistor that is rated at least double the required wattage, and solidly mounted to the radiator support for heat dissipation.

 

Dealer replaced my headlights this morning with the new design headlights. Both DTRL lens were melted and passenger side lens was cracked.

 

The dealer replaced mine under a "silent" recall last week also

 

What is the new design?

Those look like standard TRD Sport headlights.

RJM

 

Something so they aren't supposed to melt again. Really, they look the same. I'm almost wondering if the dtrl bulbs are closer to the lens now. lol

Those are the same lights that are on all Taco's no matter the package.

 

Looks nice. Got part numbers?