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Daytime running lights

I have a 2006 B9 Tribeca and the running lights as you know come on when the car is started. Is there any way to stop this from happening?
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This is a lousy vehicle if you happen to be an astronomer, and want to drive up to your evening viewing sites with just the parking lights on.
Bob
Along those same lines, is there any way to get the electrical (cigarette lighter) receptacles to operate with the ignition key off?
Dave
Bob
Or turn the headlight switch one click, so the tails are on but not the headlights or DRLs.
Also, my 2008 Tribeca has a foot-actuated parking brake pedal. Once the pedal is depressed it must be pushed until the brake is fully engaged then pressed again to release. No amount of pedal manipulation has gotten the daytime running lights to go out on my Tribeca.
So the question remains - is there a way to turn off the daytime running lights?
There is a "hack" to get around one of the more annoying nags - the seat-belt-not-fastened-chime. It can be disabled by latching and releasing the driver's seat belt twenty times in thirty seconds with the ignition on. It works, I've done it.
It would be nice to have a way to kill the DRL's on an on-demand basis. It would also be nice to prevent the interior lights from coming on when a door is opened.
For motorcycles all manufacturers equip their bikes with them and 22 states require the headlights to be on all the time.
"Just click the headlight stalk once - so you get the side markers but not the headlights. Doesn't that turn off the DRLs? "
Nope- that doesn't work. At least not for my '07. either the DRLs or headlights are always on, regardless of stalk position or emergency brake position.