Fog lights on with High Beams

68to05stang · 01-10-2006, 11:35 PM

Just thought I would share my little accomplishment. I managed to get the fogs on with the headlights on high as well as low. Here's a couple of pics, I know they aren't very good but you can just slightly tell the difference between high and low beam with my camera. If I spent as much time figuring out photoshop and this camera as I do messing around the mustang . . . well . . . I'd take better pcitures for sure.

Mike

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Shifty101Easy · 01-10-2006, 11:39 PM

can you normally not turn on the fog lights with high beams on and u bypassed it? confused a tad....

68to05stang · 01-10-2006, 11:49 PM

yeah, the fog lights USED to turn off when the brights turn on. Then come back on when you switch back to low beam.

GGIII · 01-10-2006, 11:50 PM

I've noticed my beams to be far darker than my fogs... This seems like a solution.

How'd you do it?

68to05stang · 01-10-2006, 11:56 PM

here's what I wrote on the other mustang forum site, that's where I started to think I could do it.

http://forums.bradbarnett.net/index....1&#entry609091

The grounded output wire from the switch for fog lights is Pin6, wire OG/LG, and goes to the Smart Junction Box on Connector C2280b Pin 34. The output is on Connector C2280c Pin 2, wire DB/WH, then goes to the Bussed Electrical Center under the hood to activate the Fog Lamp Relay. I'm going to try to remove the wires with their pins and try to do it so that I could reverse it if need be. The connectors don't look easy to get to though! nonono.gif

I think if I can just connect the input wire, OG/LG to the output wire DB/WH then the lamps will come on. I'll try it tonight if I get the time but may have to wait until this weekend.

I got this information from the Service Manual DVD under the wiring diagrams, Fog Lamps 86-1.

here's what it took:

Took one cut, two splices, a scratched elbow, cramp in lower right rib cage, and some tape.

ren274u · 01-11-2006, 12:50 AM

you should make a write up for those of us totally lost and dont have the service manual

05 Cayuse · 01-11-2006, 02:36 AM

I'm not sure why you think this is a good accomplishment? It's a law in all fifty states that your fogs must go off when high beams come on. It save permanent retina (eye) damage to oncoming drivers. Which seems to be a good thing, especially when I'm the oncoming driver. To each their own though.

68to05stang · 01-11-2006, 12:20 PM

Have you ever driven down a West Texas road between 7pm and 6am? I would add a light bar to the top like my bronco if it wouldn't mess up the Mustang's lines. I don't drive around town or even on the local highways with my fogs on. I do however want every advantage to see the deer or other thing in the path of my car when I'm driving around with my family. It acutally makes more sense for the fogs to be on with highs and off with the lows. So if the fogs are so bright they burn out retina (membrane inside the eye), why are they allowed to be on when you switch from high to low? So you're trading one brgiht light for another?

If you are anybody comes around a corner, I will dim my lights as I always do. But going down the road when nobody's around, they are going to be on as bright as I can get it.

torch red · 01-11-2006, 03:18 PM

cool, could u explain it in english now[sm=interesting.gif]

sdmahr · 01-11-2006, 03:47 PM

I want my fogs on all the time.....even when the brights are on. I plan on mounting a relay that powers the fogs and then powering the relay when the ignition switch is in the "on" position. What I have not done YET is identified in the fuse box, (or wire that comes from it), what is "live" when the key is in the "on" position that could pull the relay in. Does anybody know of a source of 12V that I can "tap" into and safely draw a few milliamps?