Ok everyone, I was bored today.
I rewired my foglights to come on without the headlights or the key in ignition.
I take no responsibility for any damage to your car.

I put them on a webpage to reduce clutter associated with too many pics on this forum.
http://members.***.net/inazuma/fogs.htm

 

sweet! i've been meaning to do this mod for a while, but haven't had the time to tear everything apart and see how it works.

thanks for saving me a few hours of time!!

 

Great!! My only concern is if you leave it on, there goes your battery..

I want to wires my fogs to come on when i have my just my parking lights on..

 

that looks good but i agree with theredbox

 

exactamundo, been trying to figure out a way to do it, i'm not an electician

 

I know that, but i just did a quick re-wire just to see if it worked.

The factory foglight wiring is different than usual. I originally wanted to find the wire that turns hot when the headlights turn on. That wire was supposed to go to the ignition wire so the foglights can turn off when you remove the key.

The only way to wire it would be with a relay, but i ran out of relays and my car was taken apart. I will wire it with a relay later this week or next week, with pics.

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nice work and keep us posted on the updates... every little bit of knowledge helps so even a bit of imperfect experimentation can put us a little bit more ahead, thanks again!

 

Cool that's A LOT better. Now if can only figure out how to wire it for the parking lamps....

I hate messing with the wires..

 

i bet if you had left them on your sister in law wouldnt have ran into you! j/k cool mod i appreciate(im sure im not alone) how you've been posting all the stuff you do with pics and charts and such! good jorb

 

All you do is use the parking light wire instead of the ignition wire on my second schematic. It will be used as a trigger.

 

what type of relay is used? Can I just go to radio shack to pick one up? Very cool mod though!

 

I never seen relays at Radio Shack. Anyways I would use a Bosch SPDT Relay. They are much more reliable. In the past I have used cheap $1 relays from China, bought at a mom/pop electronics store. Works just as good. Bosche will run you $4-$6 depending where u go.

I usually shop anywhere else than Radio Shack, their products are crap, well at least from my experience.

 

Thanks I will try that on Friday

 

They have em at radio shack, I had to buy some for my stereo, when I was doing my install also...


Doc

 

Thats cool. How much are they there? I never seen them at Radio Shack

 

thanks for sharing your info...

i dont think im gonna do it since i got a ticket before for running fog lights and parking lights only...
so when i turn on the lights, i want them ALL on..

 

They are only a couple of bucks, they are in a cabinet full of drawers, the cabinets have the loose fuses, resistors, caps, transistors and stuff in them. Just look in the book on top of the cabinet and it will tell you which drawer it is in.


Doc

 

Looks good!

Outside of looks though, what is the point?? :?

later
brady

 

that is the point...looks ! :D

 

oh in that case, looks awesome!!