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Old 05-07-09, 07:49 PM
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this may be silly but are those yellow lights on the inside suppose to be on at night? i thought those were my daytime lights. my lights are on the auto position. i just recently noticed it ... does this look normal to you guys? i took this after i turned the car off. i have an 09
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Old 05-07-09, 07:51 PM
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Those are your parking lights. Its normal.

You can change it. The parking light wont affect your DRL or high beams.
Heres mine. just for a reference.


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Old 05-07-09, 08:01 PM
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Damn I never noticed that either.
Old 05-07-09, 08:36 PM
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yeah, it's dumb.
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Yup. That's normal. I actually had to find out the hard way when I decided to change my parking light to LED, then noticed that it still had that yellow color. So I pretty much changed everything in there to LEDs.
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those are your parking/city lights. you can also change your DRL/highbeams to LED, but you lose the highbeam feature (but who really uses it when you have HID's anyways right?)
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Originally Posted by iKenn
Those are your parking lights. Its normal.

You can change it. The parking light wont affect your DRL or high beams.
Heres mine. just for a reference.

wow .. that's pretty
Old 05-07-09, 11:01 PM
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IS with nothing but parking lights on:

(far right is stock; everyone else has aftermarket bulbs)




And a closeup of a blue bulb parking light:


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Old 05-08-09, 04:28 AM
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Originally Posted by iKenn
Those are your parking lights. Its normal.

You can change it. The parking light wont affect your DRL or high beams.
Heres mine. just for a reference.

There's 2 different bulbs there. The parking light is not as bright as the DRL or hi beam.
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those are normal...
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my recommendation go LEDs I have the MTEC blues and wished i got them because they are not very bright.

The blue looks mean as hell though
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