(#easy) You want a LED DRL on your US Genesis? Read on.

[Cobra561]

I was told that if you slide the brown wire to the open ports, the LED's stay bright and do not dim even when the headlights are on. That's why I'm thinking about doing this. I would rather just have the LED's on bright at all times.

 

[kocyk123]

Yes, this should work. However, the LED strip will be in full brightness at night. It will not look good. You might be blinding people in front if you and can create glare in their rearview mirrors. Trust me, they are very bright. You can see the difference below:



See how bright they already are and it is not even completely dark outside.

The choice is yours but I would prefer to do it right. And again, this is what it will look like during the day (your amber DRL stays on):

 

[Cobra561]

Yes, this should work. However, the LED strip will be in full brightness at night. It will not look good. You might be blinding people in front if you and can create glare in their rearview mirrors. Trust me, they are very bright. You can see the difference below:

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See how bright they already are and it is not even completely dark outside.

The choice is yours but I would prefer to do it right. And again, this is what it will look like during the day (your amber DRL stays on):

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I appreciate the help. You're right. I'll just slide the wire to the open port and be done with it. Thanks, again!

 

[kocyk123]

No problem. Good luck!

 

[kocyk123]

I forgot to add that you can actually turn off amber DRL by moving stalk to DRL OFF position so you will only have white led strip on.

 

[2015g5.0]

Disclaimer - I am not aware if someone else found this fix prior to this post. I am writing this from my own experience.

First of all - I own Canadian spec 5.0 AWD.

Recently got involved in an accident, cracking the headlamp lens.
I then salvaged a used part from Ebay which happens to be a US spec.

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This is where it gets interesting.

Assuming this would be a plug-and-play, I dropped a bumper, took the cracked lamp out, then put the new one in.

This was the result with my DRL on (parking brake off):

...and with HID on:

Clearly LED wasn't working as a DRL in this case.
Studying both lamps a bit closer I found this:

Figure 1 - US spec connector wire

Figure 2 - Canadian spec connector wire

Notice the extra wire on 3-pin connector to the right on Canadian version.
That white wire ends up where the external connector sits, and this extra wire goes right in the middle of 4 pins on the bottom of the connector
(Sorry no picture taken for this one)


So out of desperation, I took the white wire out of the cracked lamp, then put it into the new lamp - I needed to be careful not to snap any plastic pieces and narrow metal pins when doing so.

The new lamp started working just fine after all this little hack.


Let me know on what you think...

Can the images be reloaded?

 

[TheDude]

Can the images be reloaded?

I like the jumper option so the side running lights still function.

 

[Rogozhin75]

I like the jumper option so the side running lights still function.

Me too, I have to look but there is really not enough room to do this without taking the headlights out (and bumper off)?