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As some of you may know, my 12/95 build has the 95 style DRLs
(parking lights and interior dashlights on all the time) that I hate.
And you all know that pulling the relay on these early 96 and 95 model
cars only gets rid of the headlights on. And of course I dont wantto
cough up the $80 for the euro switch. Well, today I was finaly sick
of the orange glow of the front parkign lights ruining the nice unitized
appearence on my white car. I pulled the headlight switch and looked at
the connectors. There is a little "S" shaped thingie that connects one of
the top row of pins to one on the bottom row. Well, even to my meager
electronics experience  this looked suspicious, so I pryed it off. and
voila - no more  parkign light DRL's !  I think what I did is safe.
Hopefully I wont smell bruning wires and melting plastic tonightt......

FYI,

-Doug

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Hehe...try it again and check the passenger side taillight and parking
light.  I bet they'll still be on.  :-)  I thought I made that amazing
discovery too until I walked to the passenger side.

-Mike

&#77;AOberer&#64;aol<img src=/i/dc.gif border=0 width=35 height=15> wrote:
>
> Hey 95'ers...
>         I finally cracked the mystery on how to disable the parking lights.  All it
> is...if you pull out your headlight switch, disconnect the plug, you will see
> 14 pins.  If holding it upright, you will see a copper snake looking piece of
> metal crossing two pins and connecting them.  If you see the switch, there's
> NO way you can miss it.  With a small screwdriver, remove that piece of metal.
> That will do it for you.  I went to the extent to buy a 98 switch (thanks
> Tom!) and come to find out that is the only difference.
>         If anyone has questions, feel free to email me.
>
> Matt
> http://members.tripod.com/Ventoman
> 95 Vento GLX
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