daytime running lights

jim montgomery · Post by **jim montgomery** » 12 Apr 2007, 14:05

i have just purchased an 850 turbo wagon and have the opposite problem from most people who post. i have imported an american car to canada and it has no functioning daytime running lights. i hope that i can reverse one of the tricks and get them to work.

Post by **JRL** » 12 Apr 2007, 14:47

What year?
I believe all 850's have the DRL switch installed
In the headlight switch cluster is a separate teenie little screw head.
If the lights (DRL's) are off it should be at the 10:00 position.
You need a very tiny (eyeglasses type) screwdriver,
push the screwhead in and turn to the 12:00 position and release. You should now have DRL's

jim montgomery · Post by **jim montgomery** » 12 Apr 2007, 14:52

the car is a 94.
i will try to locate the screw before i have to resort to any drastic measures.
thanks

Post by **Ozark Lee** » 12 Apr 2007, 15:50

Jim,

On my '94 the switch is actually on the back of the headlight switch so if you don't have the screw on the front of your switch pull the switch out of the dash, it just pulls out, and look on the back of the switch. The same thing applies, turn it to the middle postion.

...Lee

dykaar · Post by **dykaar** » 13 Apr 2007, 06:13

I imported a 94 850 turbo wagon from the US into Canada. There is a different light switch that implements the DRL. Go to the stealership and buy it if you can't get it from fcp. It was ~$38CDN in 1996. Unplug the old one and plug in the new one. As an aside, on my 2000 BMW 540, the DRL is a software setting. Go figure.

85 535 -For sale: http://bmwclub.ca/cgi-bin/yabb2/YaBB.pl?num=1175281807
00 540
86 951 (http://www.pcaucr.org/forum/post.jsp?postid=2393)
94 855 turbo

Regards,

doug