Steve Theodore

Hello all,

My 2008 GT2 is a US car that went north of the border to live in Canada for a few years before I recently brought it back into the US at the end of April. One of the changes made for living in Canada is that my car has Daytime Running Lights enabled, so that anytime the engine is on and the car is moving the headlights are on. I'd like to disable this feature and would like to know if it can be done via a Durametric Pro or if only a more advanced tool like PIWIS can do that? I'm totally unaware of any way to do it without an external tool, but I should also offer that I did not receive an owners manual with my car, so let me know if I'm missing something here.

I appreciate it!

Steve Theodore

No one has ever dealt with this before?

jackb911

Goldcrest disabled mine and used a PIWIS.

Steve Theodore

Thank you Jack!

jackb911

I was hoping that someone with a Durametric Pro would reply but that didn't happen. I'm guessing that it also has the capability for disabling the DRL's but not positive.

Sweeper

Shut mine off with menus in the Porsche Nav/radio system ( cant remember the name of it, PWIS??)

Steve Theodore

I have a local friend who has the Durametric Pro and will let me use it for this purpose, we both just aren't sure it can do it.

My GT2 has an aftermarket radio/nav so I don't have that option, and I did look through the standard settings from the control stalks and haven't seen that option.

TheKane

My 2009 is a Canada car originally and doesn't have the option either (stalk or PCM). I believe you can have a dealer/aftermarket shop turn them off (like the seatbelt chime if you're running a harness). It's frustrating because it's on the stalk for all other 987/997 variants that I've seen.

Steve Theodore

Thanks TheKane. I'll find out pretty soon if this is even possible with Durametric Pro, else I'll likely need to get a dealer/shop to use PIWIS.

Johnny DB

You can turn it on and off in the PCM if it was a US car...Unless when it was imported the dealer did it and disabled the ability to turn the DRL on/off. I imported my Turbo from US and took 30 seconds to find it in the PCM and turn them on for inspection...dealer wanted $500 and would have disabled the option.

Steve Theodore

I have an aftermarket stereo and so my PCM is not there to interface with. Only my control stalk(s). Thank you!

modoz61

Hi Steve
Maybe its different in North America
On my 2010 I turned DRL off via the On board computer control stalk (bottom left stalk behind steering wheel) in the Set option I could choose to disable DRL

Not sure if you can access this

regards
Mike

Steve Theodore

Thank you Mike. I did look into that first and foremost and didn't see any setting to do it, but perhaps I missed it? I also didn't get an owner's manual with my car...sigh. I will look again when the car is back with me (it is currently at a shop getting tinted over the long weekend).

Johnny DB

Gotcha! Sorry I missed that haha

Steve Theodore

When I finally get this resolved I will try to remember to update the thread so that others can see what was needed to get this done.