Delano Devine

Has any 1 installed 04-05 fog lights?
Im having problems installing tha fog lights to tha bumper...im not sure if there n e more cuttin 2 do otha then tha normal cut out of tha "vents"

P.S - I have password:JDM fogs

EM2_08

you have to drill a hole in each slot

here a manual

http://www.handa-accessories.com/civic/05fogs.pdf

jdm em2

the best n easyest way to do it is juss run them directly to ur head lights.. instead havin a button or a switch..

hondateg91

There are holes where you need to cut on the inside of the bumper. I just used an "ebay oem" switch so i can turn them on and off when I want.

Delano Devine

Thanx

jdm em2

ehh.. not to try to start a argument.. but from wat i heard dont mark me on this.. that sometimes the switch goes bad.. or i heard on othere threads that this one kid hooked it on a oem switch and it sparked and his car almost caught on fire... so i dont no.. but juss my opinion direct to the headlight..

hondateg91

Well yeah you could probably get that with ebay type stuff. I wonder if it was wired correctly or an inline fuse was attached at all.

taktix

i bought the kit from ebay afew weeks ago for my 01, and i decided i wanted the ebay switch (which came with the kit) to work whenever my car was on so i didn't have to turn on my parking lights, so i rewired the harness that came with it in order to fit my needs. As long as you connect the wiring properly, use some shrinkwrap tubing at each connection and use a relay, there's no risk of "setting fire" to your car, just don't mix up the connections, but even still should not be a problem.

taktix

oh and also switches/buttons are really useful instead of turning them on with your headlights, you get that sweet "fogs only' look and if you have 10 000k hid kit in the fogs, you can turn them off if the cops are around and might give you trouble (depending on where you live lol)

jdm em2

ya i got my foggys off ebay and my buddie hooked them to my head lights so if im gonna get in trouble mine as well all together cuz in my city u cant have h.i.d.. i got em tho lol.. plus i got the rear fog light on my back bumper got stop like a week or so ago.. he told me to step out of the car.. and askk me wtf is that light for so i had to break it down for the PIG! lol thank god he only gave me a warning!

taktix

yeh, i live in Quebec law isn't too bad on HID, but 10 000k in the headlights will get you a ticket..any lower is fine, since i'm running them in my fogs i'm hoping they won't care....ppl here have yellow fogs too so shouldn't be much of a problem. I wired my ebay fog switch to my accesory wire so when i turn off the car i don't have to worry bout forgetting them and draining my battery :D I installed the switch in the panel to the left of the steering wheel, but ebay switch was abit big and would not click in and out without jamming, so I had to sand down the edges of the slot and drill abit off the corners, but works like a charm now, and looks great! Good luck with your fogs Devine!

Delano Devine

Thanx...hopefully i get them on so0n

EM2_08

gl...it took me two hours to do cause i didn't have the right tools

taktix

haha...i did probably around 10-14 hours of electrical work on my car this past week...since i was on "break" from university this week, thought i'd take advantage by workin on my car....between building a car @ skool and work...got alot done though, foglight install prolly took me 3-4 hours total, with my custom wiring of ebay switch to accesory, and also, dunno if anyone else had the same problem, but the switch i got off ebay with the fog kit was abit tight in the slot on the switch panel, had to shave the stock slot down quite abit with a drill and some sandpaper to make it click in and out properly. Anyways it was all worth it in the end :D we should do a picture thread of foglighting for 7th gens would be hott :D am i the only one besides evil to be rocking 10000k hid's in my fogs??? represent lool

EM2_08

wait you had to drill and sand i think you put it the wrong place you didn't need to do any of that it sure just slide into place

trang_man

You guys are lucky, I got my fogs but it doesn't work.
Don't know whether its the harness or not.

EM2_08

did you get your fogs from ebay?

EM2_PLo

You have to cut a little hole inside the vent so that a part of the fog light will go in... If you have the special edition model you'll have to remove the factory lip to install the fog lights. The lip won't go back on after you have them installed, so you'll have to trim the vent area so that it'll fit on your bumper again. Had that problem with mine.

taktix

no, em2 08, the switch itself fit right into the hole after i took off the blank cover, it even clicked into place, BUT the button was tight, and so when i would push it in, it wouldn't come back out so my button would be stuck in because the dimensions of the ebay switch were slightly off. I know it's the right place for it, but it just needed abit of "thinning" of material to make it work. Not a biggie, looks good now and works great though.

taktix

and also, i got my fogs off ebay btu theyre just like OEM, since i wired it how i wanted it, and i knew what I was doing, they now work very well and i have yet to have problems with them, but i will try them for afew months and see how it goes, if there are infact problems ill up a post for ebay fog problems and everyone can share . gotta love 7th gen fogs :D Hardly any 7th gens i see round where i live have fogs. Guess i'm unique lol

taktix

oh and trang man, try hooking up your fogs to the fog harness, and test only that harness (the one that connects directly to the fogs) by putting the positive and negative wires to the battery, that will atleast show you if the actual fogs and the main harness work. If they don't, you know it is either the switch harness or the intermediate harness. And also, maybe you forgot to hook up a wire or two from the switch harness, or improper ground. If they do work when you hook up only the main harness, you might want to look into wiring the rest up by yourself from there. Let me know if you need any help doing it, it's not hard if you have any electrical experience at all.

03TL_TypeS

I bought the fogs from ebay and put them on my civic. It was pretty easy actually they popped in for me since there where OEM fogs in there b4 but I dont know what happend to them

trang_man

Thanks taktix for the info.
I'm going to try it tomorrow. I might just wire it straight to my parking lights.
Can someone show me how to wire it directly to my parking lights?

taktix

np. I would post up a diy with some pics but i have absolutely no more time to work on my car, with school and work, and we're designing and building a car @ skool so that's work too sorry i can't help you there, check the lighting forum they have some good info there, if not here's a website that shows some decent pics for wiring ebay fogs harness to parking lights...i didn't do it this way so i can't guarantee if it works well, but others have said it works:
http://www.civicforums.com/forums/11...ay-button.html

trang_man

Thanks, But I followed that DIY, but my harness is different from that.
It only has one plug into the fuse box.