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Anonymous Posted on Jan 11, 2010

Headlights also come on now with daytime running

Headlights also come on now with the daytime running lights (turn signal lights). Problem occurred around the same time both of my remotes quit working.

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Daytime runnning lights mean that the headlights are on in the daytime. On my 2005 MAlibu I can turn these of by truning the headlight swithc from auto to off.

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