<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">Originally posted by f5fstop:
[quote]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.... </div></BLOCKQUOTE>

Please don't consider it your responsibility to explain missteps by GM, the executive team has a plenty of explaining to do there. No this is not a GM bashing forum, I think it's an H3 forum usually, with funny pictures and porn mixed in. And I know what it's like to work for a struggling company, been there too.

But we can be critcal of specific items like DRLs when justified.

Yes I bought the H3 knowing it had DRLs. And I commend the engineers for giving us the override feature on the switch, better than my last Toyota setup.

Remember many H3 buyers (like myself) traded in a non-GM vehicle. There were no other GM products that were even remotely considered in the buying decision. I think GM did a great job of letting the Hummer engineers really do their jobs on the H3, instead of rebadging another pushrod powered mediocre rental car. The type of fresh thinking and thorough engineering on the H3 can surely be applied to other divisions in a positive way.

I made my point with DRLs, sb driver-selectable or programmable to meet local regulations.

S.