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Just bought a 2016 F-350. My domestic associate and FANATICAL about lights. LOTS of lights. She's the QUEEN of visibility.
And today, as I returned home, she commented "There don't appear to be any daytime running lights"... Which, in truth, I DIDN'T THINK were optional, as in something you can "turn off"...
BUT, indeed, with me driving down the street and her standing and watching, she said there were NO daytime running lights.
SO, I LOOKED IN THE MANUAL (yes, I actually READ manuals, which I've feared for ages would someday get my "man" card revoked, but I can't help it...)
AND IN the manual I found a "procedure"...
To switch the system on:
1. Switch the ignition on.
2. Switch the lighting control to the off, or parking lamp position.
3. Disengage the parking brake.
4. Make sure the transmission selector is not in position P.
OK, I figure my reading comprehension is about average, but this doesn't look TOO difficult... So, out to the truck we went...
Switched the ignition on. Not started but on.
Switched the lighting control to off.
THE PARKING BRAKE ISN'T ON, SO I CAN'T DISENGAGE IT.
Put the parking brake on.
Move the transmission selector off P.
NOTHING. Try a half dozen permutations of the above... Put the parking brake on, leave it off. Turn the key on then move the lighting switch, have the switch in off before turning the key on..
And on and on and on... Nothing.
Go out to the Internet and look up "2016 Ford Super Duty daytime running lights" and find a TON of topics and discussions about how to DISABLE them, but not a lot on how to turn them on except in previous years that APPEAR to require a trip to a dealer (I"m not even gonna ask WHAT genius at Ford thought that was a good idea)...
AND a VIDEO that teaches you HOW TO TURN ON THE DAYTIME RUNNING LIGHTS.. Except that IT uses the information center, and has some setting that doesn't appear to exist on the F-350... Which I"d elaborate on except I CAN'T GET THE (*&^%$#@! TO PLAY again...
SO, I've concluded I"m apparently incapable of understanding exactly HOW to turn the (*&^%$#@ lights on. SO, can someone, in a simple, straightforward, IDIOT-PROOF way, tell me exactly what has to be done so they'll work?
Just bought a 2016 F-350. My domestic associate and FANATICAL about lights. LOTS of lights. She's the QUEEN of visibility.
And today, as I returned home, she commented "There don't appear to be any daytime running lights"... Which, in truth, I DIDN'T THINK were optional, as in something you can "turn off"...
BUT, indeed, with me driving down the street and her standing and watching, she said there were NO daytime running lights.
SO, I LOOKED IN THE MANUAL (yes, I actually READ manuals, which I've feared for ages would someday get my "man" card revoked, but I can't help it...)
AND IN the manual I found a "procedure"...
To switch the system on:
1. Switch the ignition on.
2. Switch the lighting control to the off, or parking lamp position.
3. Disengage the parking brake.
4. Make sure the transmission selector is not in position P.
OK, I figure my reading comprehension is about average, but this doesn't look TOO difficult... So, out to the truck we went...
Switched the ignition on. Not started but on.
Switched the lighting control to off.
THE PARKING BRAKE ISN'T ON, SO I CAN'T DISENGAGE IT.
Put the parking brake on.
Move the transmission selector off P.
NOTHING. Try a half dozen permutations of the above... Put the parking brake on, leave it off. Turn the key on then move the lighting switch, have the switch in off before turning the key on..
And on and on and on... Nothing.
Go out to the Internet and look up "2016 Ford Super Duty daytime running lights" and find a TON of topics and discussions about how to DISABLE them, but not a lot on how to turn them on except in previous years that APPEAR to require a trip to a dealer (I"m not even gonna ask WHAT genius at Ford thought that was a good idea)...
AND a VIDEO that teaches you HOW TO TURN ON THE DAYTIME RUNNING LIGHTS.. Except that IT uses the information center, and has some setting that doesn't appear to exist on the F-350... Which I"d elaborate on except I CAN'T GET THE (*&^%$#@! TO PLAY again...
SO, I've concluded I"m apparently incapable of understanding exactly HOW to turn the (*&^%$#@ lights on. SO, can someone, in a simple, straightforward, IDIOT-PROOF way, tell me exactly what has to be done so they'll work?