The Hyundai Santa Fe's sold throughout Europe as well as in Canada come with Daylight Running Lights. These lights greatly improve the visibility of a vehicle when a vehicle is viewed from the front in daylight by oncoming drivers and reduce your chances of being in an accident compared to if you did not have them. Studies have shown that driving with headlights during daylight hours will reduce your chances of being involved in an accident. Numerous studies have been conducted in the US, Canada, England etc and have shown a positive reduction in daytime accidents by up to 38%. In addition the U.S. Insurance Institute for Highway Safety also conducted it owns study which indicates a 20% reduction in daytime accidents. Unfortunately the US models do not come with the DRL unit installed. It is up to the owner to obtain an aftermarket module that will give the Santa Fe this extra safety enhancement. Its a safety enhancement because DRLs can cut your accident rate by 10-30% in the first year of installation. In addition most automobile insurance companies will re-evaluate your insurance premiums when DRLs are installed on your vehicle. In 99% of cases the insurance company will automatically give you a premium discount. That alone offsets the cost of the DRL unit. Once you complete the modification/installation you can send a copy of your sales receipt to the your insurance company and get the DRL discount.  

This modification therefore tackles this problem by guiding you in installing an aftermarket Daylight Running Light module.

The box it came in.

Depth of Unit

  Dimensions

Gently but firmly unclip the crash pad panel by pulling it towards you.
Be careful as the Rheostat M11 switch will still be connected to the Rheostat and you will need to unplug it during the panel removal.

Note: If connecting to the high beams please see Appendix A below for special notations.

But placing it here will be a problem because it gets in the way of the rheostat once the lower crash pad is put back in place.

I study your DRL 4-wires descriptions and followed the wiring diagram on Appendix A. I concluded for safety measure that the +12V power source must come from I/P-A pin#2 or somewhere similar which can provide capable current draw in case the DRL module need to sustain it. Also since the SF headlights are negatively sourced, the grounding wires (gray & black) of the DRL are extremely important because they will be handling the full current load for the daytime headlights.  
In summary I ran separate wires for each connection and terminated them with a quick disconnects. All the wires pulled to one location where the DRL will be installed.

I used 18 AWG and splicing connector on connector M20-2 Pin# 10 (yel). Tie-wrap the line to existing harness and run neatly underneath to left side of dash.

I was able to access the connector I/P-A after unclipping the top connectors and pushing the harness up slightly. You need to press the side lock in and hold it flush to the side of the connector and pull it straight out. There is not a lot of play in the lock, don’t press too hard otherwise it will bend the tab and clip more on the lip. Just hold it in firmly.

You can see the 16 AWG yellow lead from the splice on connector I/P-A Pin# 2 (red).

I added quick disconnects (female) to each ends of the power cable from the DRL.