has anyone else tried this mod?

 

ttt

 

good write up, but does anyone know if this makes your dash short out after a while like the other fog light mod does?

 

I tried the mod... it shouldnt short out the wires, since the 12V is connected with another 12V output...

Ive been using it for 2 weeks, still good! Dash works A1 and everything else!

JP

 

sweet.. guess ill give it a try tomorrow

 

this confuses me alot. lol. does is let your fogs run COMPLETEly independent of everything else?

 

YES, I did this very same thing, except I ran a 12V line from the battery instead of the cig lighter.

 

did this mod today... it works great. Good write up by the way.

 

i shall wait a couple weeks and let you guys be the test rats first LOL. if it works, then i am extremely happy that someone finally made this work. so this will let me fogs stay on with my hi-beams too right?

 

When I installed my hellas I ran the 12V switch to relay to the fuse box under the hood for the h/l, but now I want to run a relay so I can switch them on and off too... So this is nice AND THANK YOU FOR FINDING THE RELAY! >_< COULDNT FIND THE MOTHER HUMPER.

Nice writeup.

 

where the efff is the relay??? lol and do ur fogs still turn off automaticly when the ignition is off?? that would be nice cause i can be forgetfull sometimes!! lol

 

As long as you tap your 12v power line off something that is switched by the ignition (as in, off when the key is off) then you will be just fine. If you tap power directly off the 12v of your battery then your lights will stay on regardless of the key position

 

thank you for wiring

 

Thanks for the write up. I was super surprised when I didn't mess this up.
This was the first time I ever wired anything. Heads up to others: you have to take out the fuse box and fuse box bracket to get to the foglight relay.
-Highly recommended mod-

 

this is a dumb mod and a dangerous one as well. It does short out your dash, I had to re wire all of it to make it work properly, Honestly who the hell has a damn wire hanging out of your fuse box... Looks like shit IMO. If you want to have the fogs on with your brights you should do it right and seperate the system completely from the headlights

 

Ive had this done for 6 months now and no problems. The wire is under your dash so no one sees it and only you know its there and if you did the mod correctly your fogs are separate from your headlights, meaning that if your headlights are on brights, lows ,or off your fogs will still be able to be turned on by themselves.

-Paul-

 

edited cause i cant read :s

 

ill have to try this soon and i do like the idea of a fuse seems almost impossible to short dash if you do that

 

just did it yesterday, i used my parking lights as the 12v source

 

what color wire and pin # did you use for the parking lights? im doing this mod now and that is the way i have always wired other cars (nissans) in the past. thanks

 

we used to do this in the ford focus world but we would just jump the fog relay to a b+ 12v source easy as that why hard wire it?

 

How do you remove the fuse box bracket? I cant seem to find any screws except for the one bolt on the very top.

 

It's 2:00 AM in the morning and I just did this mod in 20 minutes. , I've wanted this for so long, works great!

 

anybody...?

 

I second puddin's question. I don't know if I'm doing it completely wrong but I ended up frying a wire (one that I put in so it wasn't a big deal removing it). I don't have a white and blue wire coming from my relay tho. Pin 1-red/blue pin 2-red/green pin 3-white/black and pin 4-black/white. The red/green wire was already cut (guy who had the car before me probly tried to do the same thing) so I went ahead and grounded the red/green wire from the fog light switch and ran the other end from the relay to the cigg lighter just like in the picture. It works but my highs stay on and I don't have the option anymore to turn the highs on or off. So I tried rewiring back together as stock and just spliced into that red/green wire to another 12v source and it started a small camp fire under my dash lol. What am I doing wrong!! Do I have the wrong wire?

 

Bringing this back from the dead for Canadian RS owners since our wiring colours are a bit different for the wires involved.

-Pin 2 (red/green) in the fog light relay connector (pink) is to be hooked up to a 20A fuse with a wire. Fuse #4/Cigarette lighter will do (like in the first pics of this thread)
-Pin 5 (red/white) in the fog light switch connector (gray) is to be grounded to any bare metal.

Now, the fogs can be turned on whenever, independent of the parking light and headlights even when the is turned to just ACC. This actually bugs me a bit as it doesn't behave like the parking lights and headlights where the key needs to the ON position first. Another thing is the amber "ON" indicator of the switch doesn't light up. I'm gonna look into this a bit more when I have time. I did this mod this afternoon and left it as such because it was so simple to do.

 

Bringing this back from the dead for Canadian RS owners since our wiring colours are a bit different for the wires involved.

-Pin 2 (red/green) in the fog light relay connector (pink) is to be hooked up to a 20A fuse with a wire. Fuse #4/Cigarette lighter will do (like in the first pics of this thread)
-Pin 5 (red/white) in the fog light switch connector (gray) is to be grounded to any bare metal.

Now, the fogs can be turned on whenever, independent of the parking light and headlights even when the is turned to just ACC. This actually bugs me a bit as it doesn't behave like the parking lights and headlights where the key needs to the ON position first. Another thing is the amber "ON" indicator of the switch doesn't light up. I'm gonna look into this a bit more when I have time. I did this mod this afternoon and left it as such because it was so simple to do.

chose a different power source instead of fuse #4, in other words look for a source of power that comes on when the key is in the ON position.

the "on" doesn't light up because the bulb is dead.

 

i miss my car :/

 

Nice!!!

 

BACK FROM THE DEAD!!

I'm running rally light pod on my 98 RS, with 2 driving and 2 pencil, each pair wired to OEM fog light switches. Everything works exactly as it should, but I want to run the light pod independently of the headlights (and with high beams). When I wired the switches, I piggybacked off the original fog light switch so that the switch illumination worked properly. But, this prevents me from controlling the pod as I would like.

So I've been reading across the forums (FB, here, nasioc, scoobymods) and it looks like there is a good way to do this, and a few bad ways which result in fried wires/electronics.

This original post has some good information, but the diagram wasn't enough to convince me this was the right way. And it also doesn't quite match the supposed "right way" according to the description on Scoobymods (https://www.scoobymods.com/showthread.php/fog-light-mod-part-ii-485.html). The Scoobymods description is pretty good, but they don't provide a diagram, and they don't mention Pin #'s. I'm a visual learner so I need to see how the things are supposed to work and trace the current path before I start cutting. So I'm posting my observations and diagram to see if anyone picks up on anything I might have overlooked. I tried to post this on Scoobymods, but it won't let me. So here we go...

- The diagram here "looks" like the red/blue wire from FB-4 gets cut (white space over the wire trace). But there is no mention of it, and it wouldn't make sense to cut that wire since that comes from the fog light relay. So that has to be a graphical error.

- The description on Scoobymods and the description here both agree that a new 12V source (ign. switched) should feed the blue/white wire on Pin #1 of the fog light relay. However, the Scoobymods description takes this one step further and feeds that same new 12V source (ign. switched) in to Pin #1 of the fog light switch. This more closely replicates the original intended current path. Instead of the headlight relay circuit feeding both the fog relay and the fog switch, you now have both of those being fed from the same new 12V source (ign. switched).

- The description on Scoobymods indicates cutting/splicing the yellow/blue wire (Pin #5) of the fog light switch to the other yellow/blue wire (Pin #2). The description/diagram in this original post says to connect that wire from Pin #5 to ground. Thinking through this, all Pin #5 wants to see in order for the fog light relay to activated is a path to ground. Originally, that path was through the low-beam position on the headlight switch, which restricted the fog lights to only come on with low beams. Taking that wire directly to a ground, as shown in this original post, seems appropriate. It seems that splicing that wires from Pin #5 to Pin #2 , per Scoobymods, will send additional current in to the illumination control module. This little bit of current SHOULD NOT be enough to fry the module, but there doesn't seem to be a justifiable reason to do this. It seems more appropriate to just ground it.

So here is my draft diagram after all that. Blue and red are my notes.