Congratulations John, Enjoy your GT but Be Careful when driving, as they can get away from you. Welcome to the greatest Forum you'll ever be on. Tomy
Congrats!!! Looks like Alberta Plates on her. Where are you located? There's a large contingent of GT owners both in Edmonton and Calgary, so I hope to see you out this summer.
The DRL's are actually switchable by Ford on their computer. My car is a Canadian car, but I had the DRL's turned off (technically so that I could go the US, but practically speaking both because I wanted them off, and I wanted to save my headlights from the perceived threat that the heat from extended use might in fact crack the lens - yeah, paranoid......) Did you do the relay yourself? I'd like to install one for my Fogs, that way THOSE could be my DRL's. Right now I just turn the fogs on when I'm driving, but I'd rather not run the dashboard LED's all the time either. LOL
Both the LED's and the headlights are fine to run for a very long, long time with zero damage. Heat from the headlights is very marginal...(HID's) and of course the LED's are good for over 50k hours...
Very easy to install the relay for the DRL's...but time consuming just because of the disassembly involved...
Excellent. As for the headlight heat, do a search here for headlight cracks (and stress fractures)..........that's why I turned mine off.