foglight wiring

[KINGPIN33]

Originally Posted by dwf137

Mike, I was going to send you a PM, but your box is full.. This is essentially what I was going to write to you. Hopefully someone can help me out.

Well, lo and behold, even after reading this thread, I ran Positive power from a pin, but not with foglights. I was in the middle of running up my DRL's, needed positive power, and I didn't really think about what I was doing.

Well, my pin stopped working. I have since changed my setup and put a relay in to control power and the pin is just a remote wire, but my ignition pin still doesn't work. The weird thing is though, that everything else that needs to turn on when the key is in the ignition, still turns on. The clock, fuel pump, ect...

I tried going through the electrical diagrams, that got me nowhere. Is there a particular relay in the car that controls the pins that I could check to see if I fried something? Hopefully someone has a little bit of insight to help me out.

I have the exact same problem.. I wired my fogs to the ignition and it looks like I fried my ignition pin in the fuse panel! Arrr... Did you end up resolving this? I'm thinking the ignition pin on the fuse panel isn't a good idea to use in this setup...

[tommi]

search Item number: 230168801129 on ebay and that's all you will need and just hard wire it to your battery and you should not have problems frying your oem wires or harness...

[KINGPIN33]

Originally Posted by tommi

search Item number: 230168801129 on ebay and that's all you will need and just hard wire it to your battery and you should not have problems frying your oem wires or harness...

That ebay item is just a wiring harness... The diagram is the exact same one that came with my foglight kit... The wireing harness described in this thread is exactly the same as the one described in that ebay diagram. Good harness for those who don't want to make their own though...

[Ralphie]

I got a question.

I have the OEM harness and relays but when it came to OEM, how many harness were there to be used in this. I have two wiring harnesses. Someone told me i need a 3rd? is this true?

[JDM_honda_PIG]

did you bolt down the relay to the stock location for it and if so where is that i have been trying to find that out.

[slick]

Originally Posted by JDM_honda_PIG

did you bolt down the relay to the stock location for it and if so where is that i have been trying to find that out.

I have a after market fog light set from depo and I just bolted my relay to my battery tie down in case I ever need to get to it

[slick]

Originally Posted by Ralphie

I got a question.

I have the OEM harness and relays but when it came to OEM, how many harness were there to be used in this. I have two wiring harnesses. Someone told me i need a 3rd? is this true?

Yes it is supposed to be 3 parts. (these could be out of order but pretty sure they are correct)

Part 1 fog light plugs

Part 2 switch with wiring to go through firewall

Part 3 wiring in the engine bay from fogs to relay and from relay to switch

If you need a part I have some extra from my kit just let me know

[Straight Success]

I have my foglights wired in so I can use them anytime I want. Car off/on, whenever. This is kinda bad because if I forget to turn them off my battery will drain. You know our cars have that dink-ump, dink-ump noise when you forget to turn off your headlights. How can I wire my fog-switch to that dink-ump noise that comes from the head lights when you forget to turn them off?

[slick]

Originally Posted by Stright Success

I have my foglights wired in so I can use them anytime I want. Car off/on, whenever. This is kinda bad because if I forget to turn them off my battery will drain. You know our cars have that dink-ump, dink-ump noise when you forget to turn off your headlights. How can I wire my fog-switch to that dink-ump noise that comes from the head lights when you forget to turn them off?

Why don't you just use the parking light signal instead of having it on all the time? Wire it up normal and it won't drain your battery

[Straight Success]

Originally Posted by slick

Why don't you just use the parking light signal instead of having it on all the time? Wire it up normal and it won't drain your battery

They are not on all the time, I can turn them off/on whenever I want just like my headlights. Car on/off I can turn them on/off. I sometimes like driving with just either my fogs on or my fogs and parks when the sun starts to go down. Or if I'm in the park for some quick 1 night love, I can turn on my fogs and the radio with my car not on (low lighting so not to disturb ova people having sex) and handle my business.

And behold, the day I made that f-ing post is the first time I've ever forgot to turn them off. What are the odds. Left school and battery was dead. Imma just look at the wiring diagrams and wire it up to the dink-ump-dink-ump sound if I leave them on.

[slick]

Originally Posted by Stright Success

They are not on all the time, I can turn them off/on whenever I want just like my headlights. Car on/off I can turn them on/off. I sometimes like driving with just either my fogs on or my fogs and parks when the sun starts to go down. Or if I'm in the park for some quick 1 night love, I can turn on my fogs and the radio with my car not on (low lighting so not to disturb ova people having sex) and handle my business.

And behold, the day I made that f-ing post is the first time I've ever forgot to turn them off. What are the odds. Left school and battery was dead. Imma just look at the wiring diagrams and wire it up to the dink-ump-dink-ump sound if I leave them on.

Ok you can do all that by just turning your parking lights on as to why you don't understand that. Your car doesn't have to bee on for them to come on just turn your headlight switch once and when the parking lights come on your fogs will be on. Its better that way you will hear the ding- dum sound because your parking lights are still on

[Straight Success]

Originally Posted by slick

Ok you can do all that by just turning your parking lights on as to why you don't understand that. Your car doesn't have to bee on for them to come on just turn your headlight switch once and when the parking lights come on your fogs will be on. Its better that way you will hear the ding- dum sound because your parking lights are still on

Solution, leave it wired as is so I can turn on my fogs even without my park lights. Then just wire the +12 feed from switch indicator on/off light to the dink-ump, dink-ump wire.

[Night Wolf]

I used this topic to wire my lexus fogs on my CB. I used the OEM switch & an autozone relay.


very helpful topic!

[MikeW]

Originally Posted by i97supratti

I have a question. You used 16 guage wire right throughout the install right? Where did you mount the relay under the hood so that it is not prone to heat/moisture? And how do you tap into the pins in the fusebox under the driver's side? Do I just shove the wire in under the fuses? Thx

BUMP on this. Can you just plug the wires right in or should you use like male-end connectors

Originally Posted by flyinlow

My Edm harness goes: 2 wires from each fog(1 blue/red stripe) and (1 black) the black forms into 1 ground.Then I have the blue/red striped that goes to the rest of my harness that goes through the firewall into the car. which has two plug-ins that go underneith of the dash and then that goes to the switch.
I could take pics of it if need be.

Thats how mine is; a ground and red/blue wire from the fogs, the 2 grounds form into 1 black(w/ brwn stripes) and then after the 2 red/blue join, they form into a plug. Then that plug is just 1 red/blue wire... The guy i bought them from said it was everything i need in front of the firewall...

And SPDT relays are cheap and found at any store, right?

Timmys diagram is good, but i dont know a damn thing about wiring. I know +/-, switches and maybe relays. But you start talking about 12v's and this and that and im lost. Id probably do better with a diagram made from MSpaint.

I just know the wiring i have is like a "Y". 1 single red/blue that splits into the fogs.

I figure all i need is the relay, maybe a fuse, the switch, some pins/connectors and the rubber boots.

BTW, anybody running fogs without the rubber boots around the fogs...?

[lilb_1979]

I need to do this too, but I'm suck a noob at wiring. So none of this makes and since!! lol

[MikeW]

How's this look?

[CB7Man]

I bought a foglight kit brand new from Honda and my dash button doesnt dim.
Also the plugs in the fuse box are all the same
As in, when I plug it into number 3, number 2 does the same thing and so on.
The dash button, lights up when the lights are on and the fogs work correctly.
But when you go to dim the dash, the button stays totally lit

[4CYLPOWER92]

Originally Posted by greencb7inkc

Thats how mine is; a ground and red/blue wire from the fogs, the 2 grounds form into 1 black(w/ brwn stripes) and then after the 2 red/blue join, they form into a plug. Then that plug is just 1 red/blue wire... The guy i bought them from said it was everything i need in front of the firewall...


I just know the wiring i have is like a "Y". 1 single red/blue that splits into the fogs.

Yep that is how the OEM wiring runs. I just pulled one off at the junk yard. But where the OEM relay is at I'm not sure, I couldn't find it as I didn't have time to look for it but the wire went underneith the engine compartment fuse panel somewhere.

Edit: I just found this, compete OEM instructions on fog light installation http://www.cb7tuner.com/vbb/showthre...g+light+wiring

[djcaz_aom]

When I did mine, I only used harness"B", which is the one that connects the two fog lights.

-I used a relay from the OEM fog light switch.
-The switch gets power from position 2.
-12v constant to 30 on relay w/15A fuse
-Ground to 85 on relay
-12v out from switch to 86 on relay
-12v out from 87 on relay to harness "B"

Hope this helps some.

[Taurians' Ryde]

Originally Posted by CB3

Thanks cp[mike], good to know.

If anyone is doing this for the first time and has decided not to use a harness of any sort, I discovered that by following timmyOtool's diagram and cp[mike]'s switch diagram this can be done by simply wiring it together. I am totally inexperienced with this sort of thing so if I can do it, anyone can.

My fog lights had different pigtails on each. One had a power and a ground and the other had a power and two grounds. I connected both power wires together in parallel and the ground wires in series because there is no place to ground the lights on the bumper. At the switch I connected "A" and "C" together and took that to pin #2 in the fuse box. I connected "B" and "D" together and grounded that to the body.

I don't know if this will be of any help to anyone, but it would've helped me.

Is this why my switch light isn't turning on ?

The fogs work great and only turn on when I have the key in which is nice.

I can't get the switch light on.

I even took the bulb out and made sure it worked in the hazards switch and it does. :-)

I tried connecting the constant lead to pin 5 and its still not coming on that appearently is a "constant"".

Do I need to splice together the switched & constant from the switch ....to pin 2 in the fuse area ?

That's what Im reading from above right?