disable auto headlites?

Fish mojo · September 16, 2003

99 Silverado- I have the auto headlites that I usually like, but when launching the boat in the dark of the morning at a busy ramp the lights really piss other guys off. I think later years had a disable code but not 99's. Any ideas?

k1500chevy97 · September 16, 2003

you just push the dome override button 4 times

I think thats how you do it

tmf6902 · September 16, 2003

my mom use to put a peice of cloth over her sensor in her caddy...it used to stay on all the time (even if the car was off)....I think she might have used one of those pads that you put on a lamp or something so your furniture doesn't get scratched....their felt on one side and sticky on the other.

chevy38fan · September 16, 2003

if you put cloth on the sensor, won't it keep them on? sounds like he needs a flashlight over his.

There might be a fuse for the sensor? check your manual (fuses seem to solve a lot of things you don't like)

Wingnut · September 16, 2003

you just push the dome override button 4 times
I think thats how you do it

Thats how my 02s are. Same basic setup, but I'm not sure, as they change little sh!t from year to year.

Firetiger(MN) · September 16, 2003

I had a '99 also and encountered the same annoying problem with the lights blaring all over when you don't want them like at the boat launch. That will peeve more than a couple people off.

Here is a procedure I wrote up to eliminate the automatic headlights. You could get crafty and put in a switch or something if you wanted to keep the option of using the auto feature, but I didn't want them at all so this is what I did:

Disable

They changed in mid 2000 and allowed the driver to use the dome override button to disable the headlights. Now they have a 4-way selector switch in 2003. Only took them four years to figure that one out. duh!

Jailkeeper · September 16, 2003

My 96 and 97 models had DRL fuses. I jerked them out and threw in the glove box for spares. Some models will turn the light off when the transmission is in park and the parking brake is on, but that's not always the case at a boat ramp.

sonjaab · September 16, 2003

FISH......Check out

http://www.lightsout.org

Or spend 75 bucks for one of those R&D Controllers.

Mountaineer Tom has one on his rig and reports it

works great !................geo

tmf6902 · September 16, 2003

if you put cloth on the sensor, won't it keep them on? sounds like he needs a flashlight over his.

There might be a fuse for the sensor? check your manual (fuses seem to solve a lot of things you don't like)

Your exactly right.....I read his post completly wrong......sorry I lied.....if you want to leave them on all the time....put something over the sensor......LOL...maybe that's why they always stayed on...LOL

rico750sxi · September 16, 2003

You can push the E brake down just a tiny bit. Enough so the dash light comes on indicating the e-brake is on. The only thing here is you have to turn off and back on the truck in order to shut the lights off. Maybe do this as you're unstrapping the rear of the boat then when you start the truck to back into the launch you shouldn't have headlights and you could manually turn on the marker lights. Used to do this in the winter time when it was dark when I was warming up my truck before leaving for work.

ridnlow · September 16, 2003

You can push the E brake down just a tiny bit. Enough so the dash light comes on indicating the e-brake is on. The only thing here is you have to turn off and back on the truck in order to shut the lights off. Maybe do this as you're unstrapping the rear of the boat then when you start the truck to back into the launch you shouldn't have headlights and you could manually turn on the marker lights. Used to do this in the winter time when it was dark when I was warming up my truck before leaving for work.

I do this for my 99 Tahoe and it works all the time.. No need in pulling fuses