Pingu when you say scars do you mean the fitting or regret having done the job?
The scars are on the backs of my hands and caused by the limited access inside the fuse box.
I wouldn't do it again. It was a lot of effort for not a lot of reward.
At the time, the only cars with DRLs were Swedish, so there were lots of "You've got your lights on" comments.
If I were to do it again, I would investigate just having the front sidelights on. That would mean disconnecting the front and rear sidelight circuits, but being able to reconnect them when I want side and tail to be on.
) but I believe that dim-dip lights were a UK Government initiative and all new cars in the period (c.1986 on) were fitted with them. Certainly my Ford Granada of 1987 was and I thought they were excellent. However, the EU, under the not-invented-here directive, banned them hence their absence now. In a way it might have been better if they were dim-main beam because the cut off of dipped lights and the mere 10% power made them less noticeable than they should have been. London Taxis had 10% dim-dip lights long before that and I assume the government department of the day thought it worth incorporating into the construction and use regs. Wipac (I think) offered an after-market 'running light' to be fitted centrally on the radiator grille as far back as the 1960s but they never really took off.
