2016 Outlander SEL DRLs not coming on
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Mitsubishi is not really giving me a straight answer as to why they are disabled. They basically said they are disabled and they will not help in activating them. I really doubt it's a cost savings issue. Something more to this that I can't understand. Since most of the bits are in there, I don't think they were trying to cut costs. I'm guessing it's some kind of liability issue but again, I can't get a straight answer from them.
. I paid $22,xxx for my Outlander SE. I do not mind if they add $10 to the price.
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So the question would be is it even possible to get it working? I could help you to get it to work, but unfortunately it may mean swapping to canadian spec headlights and running a relay or something to control them. The stock DRL's have a module as well as the relay, and a bunch of wiring, systems I have delt with anayways also have a resistor built in (usually used with high beam bulb DRL's which was the norm in Canada on years previous models. The new ones with DRL's obviously don't use the high beam bulbs anymore a use the LED strips.
Do your lights even have a LED strip inside the housing? On my alldata an Mitchell, they only currently provide wiring diagrams up to 2014 for mitsu's so you would have to find a Canadian dealer to find u a 2016 wiring diagram showing you how the DRL system works/wired exactly. If the US housings do have the LED strips then do they have wires and pins on the headlight housing wiring connectors. If the answer is yes, should be fairly easy to wire them to come on anytime IGN is on or something with a relay, but if the wiring, relay, DRL module is missing and the body control module (or whatever sends out the signal to turn them on/off,) is programmed differently, then it's going to be very hard to get them to work without wiring them yourslef
Do your lights even have a LED strip inside the housing? On my alldata an Mitchell, they only currently provide wiring diagrams up to 2014 for mitsu's so you would have to find a Canadian dealer to find u a 2016 wiring diagram showing you how the DRL system works/wired exactly. If the US housings do have the LED strips then do they have wires and pins on the headlight housing wiring connectors. If the answer is yes, should be fairly easy to wire them to come on anytime IGN is on or something with a relay, but if the wiring, relay, DRL module is missing and the body control module (or whatever sends out the signal to turn them on/off,) is programmed differently, then it's going to be very hard to get them to work without wiring them yourslef
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Help from Canadian 2016 owners?
I read in the ETACS thread that the DRL relay might be different from the regular relay. Can a Canadian 2016 owner take a pic or check your fusebox under the hood to see? I've attached a pic of what my US 2016 fusebox looks like. I circled where the missing relay is. I tried a regular relay by just moving one over their, but it did not work. I suppose it doesn't need to be a 2016, since the ones after 2012 did not have DRL, but just to be safe. Any help from up north would be GREATLY appreciated. Thanks.
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I read in the ETACS thread that the DRL relay might be different from the regular relay. Can a Canadian 2016 owner take a pic or check your fusebox under the hood to see? I've attached a pic of what my US 2016 fusebox looks like. I circled where the missing relay is. I tried a regular relay by just moving one over their, but it did not work. I suppose it doesn't need to be a 2016, since the ones after 2012 did not have DRL, but just to be safe. Any help from up north would be GREATLY appreciated. Thanks.
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Thanks to turbocolts for hooking me up with some pictures of his Canadian model (working DRL's). The circled relays are the ones related to DRL's. You can see from my earlier pic from my car that the US is missing one of the relays. I had tried putting in a relay there, but it didn't work. So I was hoping that the Canadian version would have a different relay that would explain why my relay placement didn't work. The pics confirm that it is the same relay that is used as all of the others (same as the one I tried). Therefore, a different relay is not the problem and not the easy way of reactivating the DRL's as I had hoped. There is still something else missing that is keeping the DRL's from being activated. As far as I can tell, the only thing missing is a relay there, but that alone is not the problem. All other fuses and relays related are in place.
The suggestion is now to compare wiring diagrams of the Canadian model to that of the US model. No idea how I'll track this down.
To summarize my attempts I've asked the dealership shop (unaware), the regional manager (unaware), Mitsubishi USA hotline ("the US models are not equipped with DRL's" - completely unhelpful, checked fuses (good), checked relays (missing one easily attainable at a nominal cost), now a dead end.
Any other ideas from interested 2016 Outlander owners?
The suggestion is now to compare wiring diagrams of the Canadian model to that of the US model. No idea how I'll track this down.
To summarize my attempts I've asked the dealership shop (unaware), the regional manager (unaware), Mitsubishi USA hotline ("the US models are not equipped with DRL's" - completely unhelpful, checked fuses (good), checked relays (missing one easily attainable at a nominal cost), now a dead end.
Any other ideas from interested 2016 Outlander owners?
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I asked a question to the forum about this in the ETACS thread, but I didn't get an answer. I haven't done any ETACS mods so I don't know if this will work. It's a bit of an investment to get ETACS so I wanted to know if anyone had experience with the DRL and ETACS. Do you?