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<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">Originally posted by ckhagman:
The reason that I do not like them is because it the rears are not on. Some manufactures have the rears on as well. In low light situations like rain, fog, snow etc. the people that have daytime lights do not put their lights on for the most part so the people behind them can not see them. </div></BLOCKQUOTE>

And that is the reason that all GM cars now have auto lamps, so that when the light falls, the headlamps as well as taillamps come on. However, using a turn signal as the DRL tends to make people turn on their headlamps in low low light conditions if the sensor does not turn them on. If the headlamps are used as DRLs, as they are in some cars, I agree, many don't turn on their headlamps/park lamps to illuminate the rear lights.

To SanJoseH3

As for testing, I agree, maybe they should be tested, but they would have had to test every bulb manufactured by this one manufacturer. Seems the specs on that bulb vary greatly. In fact, that is why no all the bulbs burnt out, just some.
But as a GM employee, I have to admit I'm getting pretty sick and tired of GM bashing. Did GM do everything right? No, there is no company that does everything right. And for those who hate GM, why purchase their product? I'm sure if you were an informed consumer, you knew there were DRLs on this vehicle when purchased.

I had enough of this GM bashing on the Vette forum from Vette owners, and now it is starting on the Hummer forum. I might as well hang out at the known Chrysler employee bars in Auburn Hills MI.

To H3-o-Hawaii
Problem with the H3's DRLs as I prevously explained is the same circuits are used by the BCM for turn signals. Is there a way to bypass, yes, but it would take more than a connector. From a preliminary review of the schematics, it would take two relays and some cutting and splicing of the two front turn signal/DRL power wires.

Have fun debating the need for DRLs. I guess the next subject would be how GM screwed up the circuits by developing a BCM to control the DRLs and signals on the same circuits. I understand this was really a dumb thing to do, something they screwed up again, and an insult to the owners who wish to turn off DRLs. Go for it....