has anyone figured out how to get the fog lights to turn on with the parking lights i know it has been done on earlier years and i did it to my ek

 

I'm gonna work on it today and I'll post back some info tonight or tommorow

 

i work for honda and i dont know why you cant just turn them on seperately. but anyways under the dash on the left side above the fuse box and towards the firewall youll see a blue taped 1 wire connector. i think that goes to the headlamp switch. try disconnecting it and see what happens.

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by crypticcivic &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">i work for honda and i dont know why you cant just turn them on seperately. but anyways under the dash on the left side above the fuse box and towards the firewall youll see a blue taped 1 wire connector. i think that goes to the headlamp switch. try disconnecting it and see what happens.</TD></TR></TABLE>
no worky

 

Here we go pull the fog switch out unpin the violet pin in the fog light connector. unpin the blue connector from the fuse box. thats is the one that comes from the fog light harness. run a wire from the blue wire to the spot were the violet wire was.This will make the fogs come on when ever you what. Here are some pic's.
I work for honda so i was able to get a pin and repin the spot were the violet wire when.

 

hi htec17

could you give alittle more detail.. really confused... "unpin?"

and for those of us who doesnt work for honda... would "unpin" be an option?
or can we jus split the wire somehow....

sorry...and thx again.....69

 

yeah im just about as clue less as 69

 

When I first got my fogs I was dying to find out how to do this...

...then I thought about it, my headlights are on 90% of the time anyway lol. The only advantage to this might be pictures.

 

to clarify everything....

Cut the purple wire that goes to your fog switch in the dash. From there connect a new wire to the switch-end of the purple wire.

Run this "new" wire (wire attached to purple wire @ the foglight switch) to the blue wire in the white plug under the dash for the foglight harness.

DO NOT connect this new wire to the blue wire that runs by itself to the actual foglights through a brown plug just hanging there. This blue wire goes into the wire harness and out to the fogs. The blue wire you are looking for is in the white harness but does NOT go out to the fogs.

 

so all you did was make the fogs work constantly, whether or not the car is on

 

Is there any way then, to have the fogs switched, as in connected into the parking lights, such that they can come on when the parking lights are on, and also stay on when you turn on the high beams?

This seems important to me because I have 50 Watt HIDs in my fogs... I do not want to kill them when I turn on my high beams, and possibly turn them on right after turning them off.

 

Yes I wired them constantly, and after leaving them on twice in 3 days I wired it back to stock.

I am not sure if there is a way just yet to wire it to come on when the car is just on without just using the factory setup.

I tried wiring it to a few different accessory wires and the parking lights and nothing would work. So I believe for the moment, the only SIMPLE solution is wiring to a constant 12V source.

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by 93AccordCoupe &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">Is there any way then, to have the fogs switched, as in connected into the parking lights, such that they can come on when the parking lights are on, and also stay on when you turn on the high beams?

This seems important to me because I have 50 Watt HIDs in my fogs... I do not want to kill them when I turn on my high beams, and possibly turn them on right after turning them off.</TD></TR></TABLE>

any pics of your fog hids?

 

CONSTANTLY!!
wow..that would be too much... if we can jus turn it on with the stock foglight switch whenever we want that would be the best outcome.

 

Read carefully next time before you make a post like this <TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by freeurmind69 &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">CONSTANTLY!!
wow..that would be too much... if we can jus turn it on with the stock foglight switch whenever we want that would be the best outcome.</TD></TR></TABLE>

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by 1zach4 &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote"> the only SIMPLE solution is wiring to a constant 12V source. </TD></TR></TABLE>

The switch was connected to a wire that reads 12V constantly, that does not mean the fogs are on constantly, you still have to use the switch to turn them on. I just didn't like it because it does not tell you with a chime if you leave them on, and when wired this way the fog light indicator no longer works on the cluster.

 

oooooo ic

eheheh my bad....

that sucks the foglight indicator doesnt work.... mmm
must be a better way!!

 

Yay. Fogs suddenly do not work, nor do I have the fog indicator... I have a feeling I did something stupid to the purple wire. Time to check that one out. And yes, pics of the HIDs will be up as soon as I get my purple wire fixed...

Yellow HIDs are awesome! BTW.

 

Couldn't you wire them to your day time running lights?????? That way when you turnt he car on the day times come on and you would then be able to turn the fogs on. I have yet to try this myself, but to me that seems like the simple solution.

 

Here's how I did it on my Sentra, which should work on the Civic, assuming Honda engineers haven't figured out how to re-write the laws of physics.

1. Find the relay for the fog lights. On my car it's under the hood with the rest of them, not sure where on the Civic.

2. There are several wires going into the relay, but the one we're looking for is the "trigger." When there is current going through that wire, the relay turns the fog lights on. That wire is connected to the low-beam circuit, so that the relay cannot turn on the fog lights unless the low beams are on.

3. Cut that wire, tape the end coming from the low-beams. Leave enough wire from the relay to splice a new wire on...

4. Which will then be connected (using a splice-connector/"scotch-lock"/whatever you call it) to a wire that only has power when the car is turned on, or the wire for the parking lights.

5. That's it. Now, the fog lights will not stay on unless the circuit you spliced into has power, which it won't have when the keys are removed unless you picked the wrong one. I used the parking lights since they stay on when switching from low beams to high, and I never really saw the need to find a circuit to tap that would enable me to turn on the foglights independantly of all the other lights. If I need to have the foglights on, odds are the visibility is bad enough that having my taill lamps lit to avoid getting rear-ended isn't a bad idea.

Chances are this will not work since:
A) What I know about automotive wiring can be fit into a matchbox without removing the matches first, and
B) I've never tried it on an '06 Civic. It works nicely on my 03 Sentra, but that's a whole other matter.

Good luck!

 

Well, the problem with that, then, is when you turn on your actual headlights and high beams, you will lose power to your fogs.
The best solution to this is to splice it into the power to your parking lamps. The problem we have with this so far, is that we do not know exactly which wire that is. We can find out, but I'm not going to try.

I.E. Purple wire gets happy with parking lamp wire (whatever wire that may be.)

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by Gutro &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">Couldn't you wire them to your day time running lights?????? That way when you turnt he car on the day times come on and you would then be able to turn the fogs on. I have yet to try this myself, but to me that seems like the simple solution.</TD></TR></TABLE>

 

great write up..

although i believe you are on to something for following your directions would require some major investagations into which wire is what..
or until the manual (detailed kind..dont know the name) comes out.
any honda gurus can locate some wire diagrams or attemp to try??

i wish i had the time or the patients to try this out...69

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by freeurmind69 &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">great write up..

although i believe you are on to something for following your directions would require some major investagations into which wire is what..
or until the manual (detailed kind..dont know the name) comes out.
any honda gurus can locate some wire diagrams or attemp to try??</TD></TR></TABLE>

It shouldn't be that tricky if you have a multi-meter/circuit tester...Knowing how Hondas are wired, odds are that the brightly colored wire is the power, the darkest one is the ground, and the two that are left are the trigger and the switch. So, see which of the two has power when the low beams are activated, and you've found the trigger.

 

wow. u guys are WAAAYYYY behind. us G2 Teg guys have been doing this since, i dunno, 1990.
go to G2IC.com and look under "teg tips" then go to "re-wiring fog lights" its the same thing. have fun boys

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by I Have an STD &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">wow. u guys are WAAAYYYY behind. us G2 Teg guys have been doing this since, i dunno, 1990.
go to G2IC.com and look under "teg tips" then go to "re-wiring fog lights" its the same thing. have fun boys</TD></TR></TABLE>

completly different electrical systems

in the older civics and integras it was a simple wire swap, in the new cars everything is run off a computer, so it's not as easy as you think

 

to be able to turn the foglights when we want and still have the foglight indiacator working like stock form.
THAT WOULD BE THE PERFECT MOD!!!

now the question is HOW!!!