How To Install (DRL) Daytime Running Light | Nissan Pathfinder

In this video, I will show you how to install a set of DRL (Daytime Running Lights) on your vehicle. This will operate like the OEM style of DRL. The lights will turn on with ignition, and dim when you turn on your headlight. Follow the information I provide in the video for full installation.

NOTE: This controller unit has a blue acc wire which may need to be connected to Ign 12V if you find that your DRL is turning on/off randomly. The white wire needs to be connected to your headlight or parking light +12V wire in order to dim the DRL when you turn on the headlight.

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DRL Controller Module

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[jtbtabimono]

Nobody has explained the attention to details technical side as good as this video does. Wonderful!

[valhallanator]

Great instructions! Only suggestion would be to test before performing the final installation on the vehicle. You don’t want to finish up the install only to find some kind of problem. Great job, D2F! I’m armed with the knowledge I need to try this myself!

[larryhicks]

T tap are very bad many problems with intermittent shorts. The soldering may take longer to do but when heat shrink does not cause problems. I will give it a go . Looks like easy instructions Thanks

[vg]

Awesome explanation.. have been searching for this since long .. thanks a ton ☺️

[colinbyers]

Great video! It was very helpful! I would like to attempt to add an extra drl to my existing drl on my Nissan but so far I have had no luck. I think I'll try your wiring as a work around :)

[radulescu]

This is what I was looking for.
I had the DRLs directly on the more fancy module, which shorted the right side due to water in the drl plug.
Now I don't want to wait another 1+ month from china, and in my country I could only get a "smart" module that has one output (don't know why you would make it like that).
And I could not decide how to split one module output in 2 DRLs.
But seeing this I remembered I still have the driver that came with the DRLs. So I'll connect the single output from the "smart" module to that one, which will split to both DRLs.
Awesome, thank you

[swkynard]

Great YT video explaining how the DRL controller works. I have a question, I am an electrician and use a multimeter daily, what is the device you have clamped on the ACC wires to measure relay voltage called? and where can I find one like you are using? must penentrate the wires with the alligator clips in order to get the wire inside the insulation.

[MikeKeighley-tdwd]

Excellent tutorial, thank you from Scotland!

[doitbyyourself]

Wowww, impressive. Man; I wish I could have ur knowledge about wiring, I drive the same vehicle u do.

[immanueldelcastillo]

Hello, do you have an in depth instructional video regarding tapping on relays? Thanks.

[normandfogarty]

Great video!! Do you know if this setup meets the Canadian requirements?
Thanks.👍👍

[robertmunroe]

Great work, thanks! One question, are you satisfied with the daytime brightness of the new DRLs(ie - do you think that drivers/pedestrians can see them at a reasonable distance)? On video, it’s sometimes hard to really know how bright they actually are. Thank you, your explanations of the controller answered a bunch of my questions. Cheers from Washington state!

[trelaw]

Thanks for the great video. I installed the exact controller yesterday but when I turn on my turn signals my LED flashes with my turn signal. It’s suppose to turn off the LED to my knowledge. Any idea why that is? I have yellow to positive turn signal.

[angelcabrejos]

Pls where did you bought the products, in Amazon are different.

[hockeynate]

I read somewhere that you could make them shut off when the headlights are on.

[jonathan.varghese]

Dude thank you so much, this video has been really helpful. I'm still confused about one thing, though. The DRLs I'm looking at have a seperate, amber sequential turn signal. Does that wire get tapped in directly to the OEM turn signal? From what I can tell from the DRL controller, the "turn signal" wire on the diagram (on the Amazon page) has to be a kind of input, that I think makes the regular drls flash along with the OEM turn signal but I'm not sure how to connect the turn signal so it will use the Amber sequential one. Also if you hook up the blue ACC light to ignition 12v do you need to connect the DRL controller to the battery?

[agustincorrea]

Great instructions I purchased thru Ebay new LED Lights for my Audi Q7 2009 and at night it turns White and the signal changes to orange. I want to use the White LED to stay on all the time that way I don't have to turn on the night lights during the day. What I need to buy in order to use the front bumper LED's as Daytime running light with no Dim.? Thanks Auggie

[batvon]

Awesome. Very detailed and well explained. Will this work with any LED lights? Or is there a special type that can dim?

[Kucingkelabu]

soo neat and cleann.. I wish you can help install for my car haha..

[williamkmounts]

My question would be if you bought aftermarket drl headlights that the drl is controlled by the marker light. Can you easily make it to where the drl is turned on with ignition?