Alright well a while back a few of us were trying to figure out a good way to keep the fog lights from shutting off when you turn on the high beams (http://www.scionlife.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=224932&postdays=0&postorder=asc&highlight=fog+light+highs&&start=20). Well I was working on getting my parking and head lights to work the way i want them to with my remote start and i accidentally solved this problem its actually very simple....

start by removing the lower steering wheel cowl by removing the two screws and then pulling it off:

http://i210.photobucket.com/albums/bb33/acamden/DSC_0297.jpg

the harness you will be working with is the one circled in green above. Close up:

http://i210.photobucket.com/albums/bb33/acamden/DSC_0296.jpg

as you can see mine has already been modified a bit.... anyway, unplug it and look at the wires. You are looking for a 16 or 18 gauge while wire with a black stripe. The other wire you need is right next to it. It a 20 guage blue wire.

http://i210.photobucket.com/albums/bb33/acamden/DSC_0299.jpg

alright well strip back the factory wire loom/tape and CUT THE BLUE WIRE.

i hate cutting factory wires too, but sometimes u gotsta do what u gotsta...

then what your going to do is take the end of the blue wire that DOES NOT LEAD TO THE CLIP BUT DOES LEAD TO THE CAR and connect it to the wite/black wire. You can do this with a T-Tap or by soldering + electrical tape...

In my pics it might look like i connected the end of the blue wire that goes to the harness but i did not. You need to connect the END OF THE BLUE WIRE THAT LEADS TO THE CAR to the WHITE/BLACK WIRE. (Not yelling just making sure yall get it right :-) )

tape up the end that does go the harness to eliminate any chances of shorting out anything and then maybe wrap the wrest of the harness up with a strip of electrical tape to clean things up.

EDIT: quoted from below:

yeah the pics are a bit confusing because my harness is also modified for some other reasons but heres a little diagram i made. hopefully clears things up a bit for you:

http://i210.photobucket.com/albums/bb33/acamden/losdiagram.jpg


As you can see this does not interfere with the parking light rewire mod...

http://i210.photobucket.com/albums/bb33/acamden/photo-140.jpg

heads operate normally....

http://i210.photobucket.com/albums/bb33/acamden/photo-141.jpg

and finally.. brights on!

http://i210.photobucket.com/albums/bb33/acamden/photo-142.jpg

so crispy

http://i210.photobucket.com/albums/bb33/acamden/photo-143.jpg

http://i210.photobucket.com/albums/bb33/acamden/photo-144.jpg

good luck!

hmmmmmmmmm I will be trying this out. I hate flashing the highs to let people go at night cause it flicks the vrds off and on. So im giving people a small light show.

Thanks for the tut

mhm

updated with exterior pics

cool DIY!

Interesting...

So basically what you are doing is just removing the blue wire from connector and just splicing the dead end into the white with black wire? right? I am just having trouble with the images to see exactly how it is. But is cool.

yeah the pics are a bit confusing because my harness is also modified for some other reasons but heres a little diagram i made. hopefully clears things up a bit for you:

http://i210.photobucket.com/albums/bb33/acamden/losdiagram.jpg

Has anyone else tried this?

Great work! It is really amazing.

Maybe I'll have to try this.

do it. I love the way my car looks with all meh yellow lights on :-)

Thanks for the DIY...

Works great and i like seeing all of my lights on at once

Thanks again

sorry to bump an old post but looking to do this and my question is... does everything function properly after preforming this mod... and has anyone done this...

I modified my fog lights to turn on with the parking lights sometime ago(http://scionlife.com/forums/showthread.php?t=109284) If I do this too, it is safe?

Worked like a charm, incredibly easy. Love seeing all 3 on at the same time. 100% 6k ftw. Thank you thank you thank you!

no prob :)

post a pic!


also just edited title of thread for better wording

If you have the parking lights rewire mod with this, when you lock your car with keyless entry the parking lights will flash. If the fog light switch is on, will the fogs flash too?

nice diy mod, i been looking for a way to for my fog lights to go along with my high beams, now i am able to do it thanks a lot

easier way put ur fogs to the park light wire 1 click and its on