Good morning all!

I've added an LED fog strip to my car this weekend and i'm trying to find the fuse that runs my parking lights. My scenario, I want the LED's to come on with my parking lights and not the main lights of the car. I'm able to control the LED's with the main light for the time being. I found the fuse for the parking light which are labeled "small lights" but when i tap into it the LED's automatically come on and remain on. I checked the fuse box on both inside and outside the car.

Ideally I want the LED's to come on when the phisycally flip the switch for the parking lights.

any help anyone can provide i would greatly appreciate it.

 

The fuse that drives the parking lights are located under the hood. I believe it is a 10amp fuse. But the fuse drives other items in the car besides the parking lights. There isn't a dedicated "parking lights" fuse.
There is a relay control module in the same location as the fuse box. That unit contains the logic to control your lights. Your best bet is to tap off the red/blk wire going to your parking lights. That's the wire that provides +12v. when the parking light knob is turned on. You maybe able to find it in the harness leaving the module (i never tried), or you can tap into it at one of your parking lights or side markers. You should check the Garage, section G. There are a lot of DIYs for LEDs & lighting that others have successfully completed. Perhaps someone has used your LED fog strip (or similar).

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Note: Since it is Fog lights, you may want to tie it to the fog light circuit, which has it's own relay right next to the fuse box in the engine compartment. It is in the box that has two relays (the other one is a Fan relay). The Fog output wire is BLU/YEL. Again I would suggest tapping into the wire at the fog lights.

(A word of caution: make sure you don't overload your parking lights. A few LEDs are probably fine, a few watts should be okay, but not double digits, you will blow your fuse, and I don't recommend increasing the size of your fuse, either. They were spec'd based on the load on the circuit & match the wiring for that circuit. If you increase the size of a fuse and overload a circuit then you start burning wires and other components.)

Good Luck.

 

cool, thanks, i will look into that. they are not necessarily fog lights, i just called it that. it's just a strip of LED's very low voltage!

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