okay....since day 1....a pet peeve about this damn car of mine has been that you HAVE to have the damned headlights on in order to have the foglights on, and not only that, but once u do...they shut off when switch on your highbeams. Besides that....i since always wanted to do the following 3 things:
1) be able to turn the foglights on WITHOUT the parking/cluster lights switched on
2) be about to turn the foglights on ONLY WITH the parking/cluster lights switched on
3) be able to KEEP the foglights on WHILE the highbeams are switched on
basically...have FULL independent control at your finger tip of the foglights whenever you wish in whatever of those senarios you wish. Well...i finally did it today!
To make it short and simple...here's what's involved:
BEFORE WE BEGIN!: Get your parts/tools you need for the job:
a) switch, got from radio shack, part # 27-693 - $2.86
b) drill and drill bit (5/8 but use a smaller one to start the hole, and you will have to make it a bit wider in the end)
c) wire - 12/16 gauge
d) use a sauder gun w/sauder, heat shrink wrap, and black electrical tape
e) wire cutter/stripper
1) LET'S GO!
first, remove the kick panel under the steering column w/the 2 screws holding it in place. *note: be careful not to break the snap tabs that hold it in up top*
2). mount your switch on the little tab behind the stock headlight lever, use the drill bit as mentioned above to mount.
3) once mounted, now open up the side gray fuse panel inside the car on the driver's side of the dash. remove the two screws holding the fuse box in place so you can pull it out and get to the bundle of wires in the back of it.
4) locate the pink wire w/the green stripe on it
5) tap into the pink wire w/the green stripe and run it that extenstion you tapped into it with to one prong on your switch from radio shack
6) now, run another wire from the other prong on your switch to a 12v source in the car
7) that's it! have fun, clean up shop, and put the car back together and voila! FULL CONTROL of your fogs how dodge SHOULD have made it from the start!
*NOTE* i'd highly recommend for a pristine clean-cut job, to sauder all your connections up where you tapped into, slide some heat shrink wrapping over every one, use a lighter to apply heat to it to make it shrink down, then wrap around it w/black electrical tape
compliments and MAJOR thanks to Cali's how-to here, click to see through it and use the pics to help: (btw...for FULL control like i just wrote up, you use the EASIER method believe it or not, which is method #2 in the link below)
http://www.dodge-srt4.com/howto/Fog_Light_Mod.pdf
FINALLY!!! FULL control of your foglights! l00k!...
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