Question about foglights?

[dawrenn]

I know something similar has already been covered but that is not what I am trying to do. I want my 99 OEM foglights to be on with my corners but I dont want to do it the way covered in this thread: http://www.honda-tech.com/zerothread?id=707193 because alot of people have had problems with sutff. I was wondering if there is any was else to do it? Someone told me that the fogs can be hooked to a constant 12v power source? I am not sure if that can be done with OEM fogs.

 

[LatinEM2]

Thats the best way to do it...its easy and i haven't had any problems witht it....what kind of problems are u talking about?

 

[anekin007]

thats kind of the way i did it.. but instead of pulling out the pin wires i just cut them and re wire them.. i tried that method and i broke a tool and only got one wire out. i looked at the how to again and notice i can cut them and swap the wires. i just cut them.. strip the wires and use those crimp wire connects and i was done in 1-2 min. its wired up the same as the how to but less headache..

 

[dawrenn]

thats kind of the way i did it.. but instead of pulling out the pin wires i just cut them and re wire them.. i tried that method and i broke a tool and only got one wire out. i looked at the how to again and notice i can cut them and swap the wires. i just cut them.. strip the wires and use those crimp wire connects and i was done in 1-2 min. its wired up the same as the how to but less headache..

Which wires would I cut and splice?

 

[dawrenn]

Thats the best way to do it...its easy and i haven't had any problems witht it....what kind of problems are u talking about?

Here are the problems:

just did this modification, and i put a 10amp fuse in the taillight spot. however, for some reason, my 7.5amp interior light fuse keeps on popping. has this happened to anyone else? i am gonna try to replace it with a 10amp and see if that will help..

This is a great write up and i did everything while i installed my fogs today, but i ran into a problem the frist time i armed & disarmed my alarm.

So after we installing my fog lights with this DIY mod we put everything back together and i tested everything out and it worked fine. Then i armed & disarmed my alarm for the first time with the fogs installed (and they were in the ON positon so it flashed also) and everything was cool. Then i did disarmed the car and noticed when i disarmed it this time the parking lights stoped flashing, as well as when it arms. Then i go in my car and turn all my lights on to see if the lights still work on the outside and they do, but then the instrument lights (cluster & Climate Control) didn't work anymore. i checked both of the fuses and they were fine as well as the 10 amp i added for the tail lights.

Now we don't know what could be wrong; has this happened to anyone else? because the instrument lights (cluster & climate control) still flash when i arm & disarm my alarm but the outside parking lights don't flash, but when i turn on my lights the cluster and climate control doesn't light up.

okay so my radio does work. now it's the parking lights that don't work when i arm and disarm my car, and instrument lights don't work (cluster & climate control) when i turn it on the first and sencond click but they flash when i arm and disarm. what could be wrong? everything was fine untill i used my alarm the 2nd time. i need your guys help please

I did this to my 99 hatch this week, my parking lights and cluster lights stoped working. I got my multi meter out and checked continuity on all the fuses. 1 fuse blown, Instrument cluster(5amp). I put a 10amp in as a replacement. Cluster works again and my alarm also flashs the parking lights again.

so this happened to you too huh. i found out my instrument light fuse blew too. i must have over looked it the first time, but my intruement light fuse is a 7.5amp. this write up said to change the tail light fuse to a 10amp but i guess it is different for some cars, and will change the tail light fuse back to 7.5 and change the instrument lights to a 10amp.

I'm having problems with this again. So I changed my instrument lights fuse to a 10 amp fuse and changed the tail light fuse back to stock (7.5amp) and everything was working fine untill today when my parking lights and instrument lights stoped flashing when I arm and disarm my alarm. What could possibly be wrong this time? What could possbily be wrong this time? I already checked all the fuses (tail lights & instrument lights) and they were fine, I even put new ones and changed the tail lights fuse back to a 10amp fuse just in case and tested it out but no luck. I have a Clifford RSX 3.5 pager alarm, could i have blown a light fuse for the alarm if there even is one? i'm just hoping that i didn't fry anything. I TIA to anyone that thinks or can help me with this. i'm just stumped and don't know what do.

That is why I am worried about doing this.

 

[Eran]

Yeah, they made the 99-00 foggies such a pain in the ass. For the 96-98, there's a harness that's wired in stock, and you just plug into it, and then for the switch, you just plug into the other end, and attach a relay, plug into the fusebox and the swich, and you're done. My dash teardown and wiring was 20 minutes TOPS.

 

[dawrenn]

Yeah, they made the 99-00 foggies such a pain in the ass. For the 96-98, there's a harness that's wired in stock, and you just plug into it, and then for the switch, you just plug into the other end, and attach a relay, plug into the fusebox and the swich, and you're done. My dash teardown and wiring was 20 minutes TOPS.

So do you think I should just not do it?

 

[BlackHopeDC5]

Yeah, they made the 99-00 foggies such a pain in the ass. For the 96-98, there's a harness that's wired in stock, and you just plug into it, and then for the switch, you just plug into the other end, and attach a relay, plug into the fusebox and the swich, and you're done. My dash teardown and wiring was 20 minutes TOPS.

you know what you are doing. thats why it took you 20 min. I on the other hand am an electrical fool and it took me days.. In the end i still had to have them installed

 

[anekin007]

Which wires would I cut and splice?

sorry for the cheap illistration .. but where the i use the red mark is the wires u cut.. not exactly where u cut but try to even it out with the other side then ur basically swapping wires u just cut.. ur just putting the wires that come from the loom to the front wires and the other two wires just becomes a loops to the other side.. pretty simple. sorry if my explaination sounds confusing. my fuse blew but it was the cluster one.. then i just replace it with a 15 and it works fine now.

 

[dawrenn]

Which side of the wires do you use? The top part or the bottom part? I think it would be easier to just swap the wires.

 

[chartinael]

I am a little confused. What corners are you talking about? The turnsignal? Or do you mean your parking-lights but they are in the main reflector, are they not? And you want your foglights to constantly light up, when you turn your parking lights on? Isn't that unnecessary? I mean, I only use the fogs when it is foggy and I need to light the road.

Kristin

 

[dawrenn]

I am a little confused. What corners are you talking about? The turnsignal? Or do you mean your parking-lights but they are in the main reflector, are they not? And you want your foglights to constantly light up, when you turn your parking lights on? Isn't that unnecessary? I mean, I only use the fogs when it is foggy and I need to light the road.

Kristin

The turn signals and parking in the same spot, it has a dual fililment bulb.

I like how it looks.

Here is what it looks like except I want the corner lights to be on.

 

[chartinael]

The turn signals and parking in the same spot, it has a dual fililment bulb.

I like how it looks.

Here is what it looks like except I want the corner lights to be on.

interesting ... my fogs only come on when at least the parking lights are on. But my parking lights are a separate bulb in the main reflector, the corner is turnsignal only.

krisitn

 

[dawrenn]

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