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I don’t know why Mazda does this, but the default setting on the CX-5 (at least in the U.S.) is that the headlights and thin beams are on no matter which setting the light knob is turned to inside the car, even OFF. The headlights get a little brighter when turned to ON or AUTO at night, but the...

I wouldn’t put bad film on my car just because it matched, because it wouldn’t match for very long. I’m looking at Llumar ATC 15 (color stable dyed) or CTX 15 (ceramic, which I’ve heard maybe isn’t quite as charcoal colored) on front windows to match factory tint on my new CX-5.

But I would think most people’s top priority is to have their aftermarket tint match the factory tint as well as possible. Some ceramics have a bluish or greenish hue mixed in with the black.

That doesn’t mean you’re gonna get pulled over with 20% on your front windows. Where I live the police have much more important things to do.

What I meant was that the thin halo lights can still be turned on independently of the headlights when the headlights are removed from the DRL.

The instructions don’t remove the daytime running lights altogether. They remove the headlights from the daytime running lights setup, So only the thin halo lights are on unless you have the headlight switch turned to off, on and maybe auto. I know only the thin lights will be on if parking...

A technician told me it works the same on 2022s. Maybe you can explain how you’re doing it.

But doesn’t this remove the use of the thin accent lights altogether?

Correct. More like a video game cheat code.

I called a dealer in my area and the head technician looked it up in his computer and saw that the cheat code can be done for 2022 also. Why the default factory setting for daytime running lights isn’t just the accent lights on the front of the car is a mystery to me. Literally every other car...

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If you’re saying the headlights are always on on US models, then what do you mean by “let us know if the procedure still works on 2022”? I live in the US and it worked perfectly on my 2017 to only show the thin daytime running lights (and the taillights) when I had it set to parking lights.