Wanted: Daytime Running Lights. Seems Not Right?

Of course you can wire the fog lights up directly to come on whenever you turn the car on The ignition's on the fog lights are on and mine has 6,000k what are the h3 bulbs or whatever's down there I put them in LEDs they're bright and they match my LEDs in the headlights perfect and they can easily be wired up with a wire so that you can either put them on a switch if that's your thing have to remember to turn them on or they can come on with an ignition controlled wire that you can pick up all over the car practically.

 

That model was designed more than 17 years ago. The Prius line didn't start adding DRLs until 2012. And not retroactively to your year.

That is a legal requirement in some states, so believe it. Maybe federal too? So getting the configuration you want is an aftermarket DIY matter.

Like most other factory fog lights, they probably aren't even "real" fog lights, just decorative vanity lights. Back when I first put real fog lights on a car, they were not 50-state legal, just 48 states. So when finally getting a car with factory "fog" lights many years later, they turned out to be just decorations, configured to be 50-state legal. I don't know how laws have changed since.

 

Here you go, you can use the amber parking lights, or wire this DRL module from webelectric to your foglights.

If you wire the module to your foglights, then you don't have to bother with the turn signal function in the module.


2004-2009 Toyota Prius DRL-2P Daytime Running Lights


SM-G781V ?

 

Here's a thread from priuschat on the webelectric DRL module:

Review: Daytime Running Lights by WebElectric | PriusChat

 

Pretty much since the beginning of time, it’s been illegal to have fog lights wired to be on without low beams.

concur, fog lights Toyota uses are useless.

 

... and not just Toyota. Other brands too.

 

Hmm, OP hasn't been around since last Thursday.

SM-G781V ?

 

Use the switch to do what You don't have fog lights till you put the low beams on unplug the low beams fit your own little wiring harness and run it to a wire that's on anytime the car is on that ends all the problem The switch I still use to turn the lights on and off and to make turns for the turn signals I don't worry about the little fog light dude Dad they're on permanently now.