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Old 05-07-10 | 01:35 PM
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Question High Beam/DRL's

Just wanted some quick clarification..the DRL's are the same bulb as the high beams, but they are just at 30% lighting? So if I wanted to change the stock DRL's from the halogen to something else it would ultimately change the drl's and the high beams? thanks for the help..
Old 05-07-10 | 02:11 PM
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Yes the DRLs are the high-beam bulb running at reduced power (the % of reduced seems to change depending who you ask, but since I had mine turned off I never cared enough to find out the real number)
Old 05-07-10 | 02:11 PM
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yes. and if you change to another halogen bulb like silverstar it will be yellowish at drl and white at high beam


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Old 05-07-10 | 03:52 PM
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If I run a Nokya yellow bulb for my highbeam will the lower output for the DRL still look yellow? I don't like the "yellowish" stock DRL color
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but i have stock hid's and when i flip the high beam the pattern on my lows shoot upward. so if i put an led drl, to my understanding the drl won't high beam but i will still have a sorta high beam with my hids?
Old 05-07-10 | 04:30 PM
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Yes, I believe the stock HIDs use a bixenon style projector, and when the high beams are turned on, both the halogen highs and the hid highs are activated via movement of a shield.
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