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I decided to do a write-up on this since I have had soo many people asking me about it.

I know some people may find this pointless, but I won’t give the reasons why this can be fun or a good thing. I will just state that it can be done.

** Some words of caution before attempting** I do not take any responsibility for any false wiring, problems, accidents, or whatever may happen if you attempt or actually do this modification.

Secondly, this is a modification meant for short distances. If you keep this switch turned on, not only will you not be able to start your car, you will end up throwing error codes out that will cause the car to stay in ALL TIME AWD until you delete the errors with an OBD2 reader.

Now let’s get to it…

- First, you will need the following: multi-meter, switch, 5x 3 way relays, a hand full of male and female wire connectors, a fuse extender clip, shrink wrap, zip ties, extra wiring, and soldering kit. Oh and some common sense.

- You will need to remove the paneling where the interior fuse panel is, and the panel where the vdc button is, as well as the center console. To do this just go to Index of /FSM and find your model. It will be in there on how to remove.

- Next the YAW sensor will be under the center console (it’s the little box right under the cup holder area), you will need to cut the green wire and run the wire from the YAW sensor off of it over to where you want to run the switch. I ran mine just beside the VDC button. (The power wire you can shrink wrap as it will no longer be used).

- Now go under where the brake pedal is. You will need to find the two separate plugs coming off of the pedal. Check using the multi-meter to check which wires have power to them, you should find 3 wires, 2 in the large plug and 1 in the small. Just like with the YAW sensor, cut and solder wires running off of the pedal. (Again the power wires you can shrink wrap as it will no longer be used).

- Last connecting to the fuse panel on the side is a tiny green wire that connects to the e-brake. That wire, like the others need to be cut and soldered in the same manner.

Now comes the fun part….

- Find a Switch Power with the mulit-meter (a power that turns on with the ignition). I found one on the fuse box, using the fuse extender clip I attached a wire to the fuse box and ran it to my first relay.

- Once my first relay was connected I piggy backed that same wire across all 5 relays.

- I then grabbed a ground wire from one of the bolts beside the fuse box (be sure it connected to the frame) and ran it to the other side of the first relay, then again piggy backed that same wire across the rest of the relays.

- Now we take the wires from the pedals and YAW sensor and attach each of them to their own separate relay.

- The first relay leave empty as this one needs to send the signal to the switch.

- Have the first relay run a bit differently to have the power go to the switch as well as the ground. Then have the switch give power to the rest of the relays.

- Next is to test the switch. It works backwards to a normal switch. When ON it means that your car is running normal, when OFF then it means you are in RWD mode. (I leave it up to your discretion on how you figure this out).

- Once done this you can have fun taping, and tie strapping away to make things look great.

Again some words of caution!!! YOUR CAR WILL NOT START IF THE SWITCH IS TURNED OFF. So please don’t PM me saying I can’t start my car. If your switch is on and you still can’t start, then check your wiring.

Next, when you flip this switch, you must TURN OFF YOUR VDC as well. When you do this you will have a bunch of lights pop on. Your VDC will say off, your AWD light will stay on and your ABS light will turn on. This is normal.

As soon as you flip the switch back and restart your car the lights will go away. BUT YOU MUST RESTART for them to go away.

LASTLY: I do not recommend driving like this daily! This is meant for off-road or track use and at your discretion. Don’t be stupid please!

If you want pictures, I am not with my car as it’s the holidays and have a winter beater I’m driving around while the roads have all this crap on them. I can take pictures within the next few weeks maybe.

Now, if you don’t understand any of this or don’t know anything about electrical, please do not attempt. You can damage things you don’t want to damage.

I RECOMMEND that you own a OBD2 reader just in case too.


Hope this helps!