I connected my fog light to the wire mentioned in one of the sticky and now I can turn on the fog lights without turning on the headlights. Before , whenever I turned on the high beam, fog lights would cut off. Now, it does not, and that's no big deal to me.
My concern is , if the fog light does not turn off when the high beam is triggred, does it do any damage to the wire or any thing could go wrong ?
What is the real reason for the fog to cut off when the hig beam is on ?

thanks



1997 TL 2.5 Black

 

Foglights work by either being mounted real low, or by aiming low. The intention is to project light underneath the fog, since fog banks typically hang a few feet off the ground.

Fog is a bunch of dense water and other particles in the air. Essentially, fog is a wall for your light. High beams are a liability with fog because the light bounces off the particles and comes back to you, potentially blinding you. On low beams, the light is aimed lower so there's less of a chance of your own headlights blinding you.

Yellow has been the traditional color for fog lights because it is thought the longer wavelengths of yelow light can bend around fog particles and therefore pierce the fog better. This has shown to be untrue, but the tradition continues.

 

Quick question, do you have to turn the parking lights on now to turn on the fogs or no?

 

wackjum, thanks for the knowledge.

UnsanePyro, no I can just turn the fog on by itself. One drawback is, once you turn the car off and take out the key, it does not beep . so , fog lights will run the battery dry if you forget to turn it off.

 

was it hard to wire the lights like that? I've wanted to try, but If I have to take my guage cluster out again, theres no way I'm doing it. that was a pain to get the dam thing out when the wheel doesnt tilt, it just slides up and down.

 

you will need to remove a panel underneath your steering wheel and splice two wires together. That was the easy part. Remembering to turn off the fog light is the hardest part.

 

Oh rock on, I can hadle that. Thanks for the info man, I thought I had to take the cluster out again. I did that for my indiglow guages, not fun...worst part was putting it back in actually.

 

The guage cluster is easy to pull out I thought, even did a write up on it, its just a pain to get back in and onto the studs that hold it in place.

What wires do you connect? To lazy to search at the moment, home sick and have been on the forums all day

 

true, it is easy to get out..but I couldnt get it to go back in while trying to hook up the three plugs at the same time...I got frustrated, but got it go to.