Hi!

I have a 94 eg hatch and I think I have a electrical issue. Okay heres the story.

I installed after market fogs in my hatch and then this happened. Everytime I turn the headlight switch on there is smoke coming from behind my dash. The pics will show where it smokes from in the picture you can see the red wire thats covered by the tape is the one that melted through the tape . The light in my cluster also is very dim not like before. My cluster is out right now if that helps, because im installing an alarm, noting is installed with the alarm yet. I took a picture of my fuse box as well thats under my dash. Are the fuses in correct spots? Is that brown plug in the right spot? I never had this happen before.

 

The fuse box

 

Sorry for the upside down fuse box picture

 

Exactly what power wire(s) did you splice into to run power to the relays and lights? Where did you buy this "kit"?

 

The kit came with a harness hat had a power wire for direct battery connection and there was a relay on it already. Bought it on amazon for $50. Thanks for the reply btw. Also i swapped out my cluster leds with red #74 ones if that helps. The car also has the original fogs harness but the wires were cut so i unplugged the plug on the back of the original fog switch and plugged in the kit plug.

 

Sounds like your power is grounding our somewhere. Mine did the same thing. The bullet connector hit the frame and fried my wires. After getting a new harness, I used shrink wrap on all the connections that could fry it. Lights work now minus my one blown bulb.
Make sure the fuse didn't melt like mine did causing the wires to melt as well. I replaced it with a 15 AMP fuse rather than the 30 that came with the flebay kit so It cant happen again.

 

You need to figure out exactly what that wire runs to. Either the fuse for that wire is damaged, the electrical component on the other side of the wire is damaged, or you have a wire grounding somewhere that it shouldn't be. The easiest way to figure out which of the three it is starts with figuring out what that wire is for.

You said it's whenever you headlights are on? If you turn on your high beams, does it still happen? If you have your headlights on with the fogs off, does it happen?

 

Smoke every time? It would only take me ONE time. Undo your hack job wiring before you start a cabin fire. Recheck your work and maybe find a foglight writeup and follow it.

 

And have a fire extinguisher ready!

 

Remove the "newly" installed harness, put everything back the way it was. Check for problems then after the mess is cleaned up. There should be no smoke. I bought an ebay kit 3 or 4 years ago. It did not hook to anything but a fused battery point, the switch it came with, and one of the Optional power points on the fuse panel. No smoke, no mess, no pain and suffering. Only problem of ownership was one of the bulbs burned out after a year.

 

Ill follow all my wires and see what it is. It always smokes when i turn my headlight switch even to the first level.

 

I removed everything that was hooked up with the fogs and it still is smoking.... Any ideas?

 

Yeah even if my fogs are off it still happens.

 

The burning wire is a red/black one

 

Yeah. Your foglight wire hack messed up other wires obviously. Insulation is probably burned off of that one. Keep energizing those circuits if you want to start a Civic bonfire.

 

This.

You have 99 problems already, but you are going to have +1 more if you keep this up: your car is going to catch on fire. Really it's just a matter of time now, and NO I'm not being over-dramatic. I know electrical. You already have a mess in front of you to clean up, why make it worse?

 

I didnt hack into any wires. The wire harness that came with the fogs has one wire for direct battery , one for the ignition slot in fuse box, ground under dash, ground on frame from fogs.

 

Whatever you plugged up then. Remove all that electrical tape and wireloom and start checking wires. Is it really that hard?

 

What should I do then

 

OMG. Remember that old Sesame Street song? "One of these things is not like the other"? Get under the dash and start inspecting wires.

 

What about for the switch? Did you need to connect any wires to that to make it work?

 

Wow. Thanks.

 

Nope just a plug and play

 

My buddy also bought a set of jdm style foglights for $50 from ebay only last about an hour **** melted wires too

 

In your fuse box pic, what is the thing going between the brown plug with red wire plugged to the 10amp fuse??? It looks like the two are connected with something.