Auxilary Fog Light Help

Buckeye Ranger · 01-14-2008, 05:03 PM

I have some foglights that I have acquired. They are just the small cheap burners from wal-mart. I want to mount them right inside my grill of my 95 Ford Ranger. Here is the thing. I would love to wire them up so that when I switch my light controll from inside the truck to just the side marker lights the fog lights would also come on. Has anybody done this that could help me out here?

Thanks,
Tony

blaska · 01-14-2008, 07:33 PM

I would just splice into the praking lamps, use a test light to find out wich wire is the ground and postive.

Buckeye Ranger · 01-14-2008, 08:27 PM

so just wire the positive from the auxilary light into the positive of the parking light and the same with the ground wire?

edgeaholic (tm) · 01-14-2008, 09:49 PM

no, get a wiring kit with a fused relay and instructions with a seperate switch. the instructions will tell you to wire one of the wires to the headlamp. instead of doing this, wire it to the parking lamp. when using fog or driving lamps, you ALWAY'S want a fused switch and relay. now, to activate your fogs by just turning on your parking lamps, just keep your seperate fog lamp switch "on" then, when you turn your parking lamps on, the fogs turn on and when you switch off the parking lamps, the fogs turn off.

Buckeye Ranger · 01-14-2008, 10:17 PM

the fog lights come with a wiring harness with an inline fuse and switch. so i should use this harness and just wire the positive fog light wire to the parking lamp?

RobbieD · 01-15-2008, 07:58 AM

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Originally Posted by Buckeye Ranger

the fog lights come with a wiring harness with an inline fuse and switch. so i should use this harness and just wire the positive fog light wire to the parking lamp?

No, don't do that; you would be adding too much of a load to the existing parking light circuit. Follow edgeaholic's advice; he's dead on it.

Buckeye Ranger · 01-15-2008, 02:45 PM

ok yea that does make sense. pick up a harness at like autozone or some shit?

red85 · 01-15-2008, 06:37 PM

Get a 5 pin Bosch realay and harness. Use the + out lead on the park lights for a trigger for the relay. On the 85 lead on your relay put a switch there to keep it indepently controllable while the park lights are on. NEVER put a switch on the high amperage lead of any accesory; it will burn the switch. Control the ground side and things always work better.

01-14-2008, 05:03 PM	#1
Buckeye Ranger Member Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: Fairfield, Ohio Year: 1995 Make: Ford Model: Ranger Posts: 116 Rep Power: 12 iTrader: (0)	Auxilary Fog Light Help I have some foglights that I have acquired. They are just the small cheap burners from wal-mart. I want to mount them right inside my grill of my 95 Ford Ranger. Here is the thing. I would love to wire them up so that when I switch my light controll from inside the truck to just the side marker lights the fog lights would also come on. Has anybody done this that could help me out here? Thanks, Tony __________________ 95 Ford Ranger XL-4x4-Manual-3" Body Lift-2" Leveling Coils-33x12.50 Firestone Destination AT'S-15x8" Black Cragers-Myspace My Car Domain
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01-14-2008, 07:33 PM	#2
blaska New Member Join Date: Jan 2008 Year: 1999 2002 Make: Ford Ford Model: Ranger Explorer Posts: 4 Rep Power: 0 iTrader: (0)	Just splice into the parking lamps I would just splice into the praking lamps, use a test light to find out wich wire is the ground and postive.
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01-14-2008, 08:27 PM	#3
Buckeye Ranger Member Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: Fairfield, Ohio Year: 1995 Make: Ford Model: Ranger Posts: 116 Rep Power: 12 iTrader: (0)	so just wire the positive from the auxilary light into the positive of the parking light and the same with the ground wire? __________________ 95 Ford Ranger XL-4x4-Manual-3" Body Lift-2" Leveling Coils-33x12.50 Firestone Destination AT'S-15x8" Black Cragers-Myspace My Car Domain
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01-14-2008, 09:49 PM	#4
edgeaholic (tm) Member Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Minnetonka, MN Year: 2001 Make: ford ranger Model: EDGE Engine: 4.0 S O H C Class: 4X4 Posts: 171 Rep Power: 0 iTrader: (0)	no, get a wiring kit with a fused relay and instructions with a seperate switch. the instructions will tell you to wire one of the wires to the headlamp. instead of doing this, wire it to the parking lamp. when using fog or driving lamps, you ALWAY'S want a fused switch and relay. now, to activate your fogs by just turning on your parking lamps, just keep your seperate fog lamp switch "on" then, when you turn your parking lamps on, the fogs turn on and when you switch off the parking lamps, the fogs turn off.
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01-14-2008, 10:17 PM	#5
Buckeye Ranger Member Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: Fairfield, Ohio Year: 1995 Make: Ford Model: Ranger Posts: 116 Rep Power: 12 iTrader: (0)	the fog lights come with a wiring harness with an inline fuse and switch. so i should use this harness and just wire the positive fog light wire to the parking lamp? __________________ 95 Ford Ranger XL-4x4-Manual-3" Body Lift-2" Leveling Coils-33x12.50 Firestone Destination AT'S-15x8" Black Cragers-Myspace My Car Domain
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01-15-2008, 02:45 PM	#7
Buckeye Ranger Member Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: Fairfield, Ohio Year: 1995 Make: Ford Model: Ranger Posts: 116 Rep Power: 12 iTrader: (0)	ok yea that does make sense. pick up a harness at like autozone or some shit? __________________ 95 Ford Ranger XL-4x4-Manual-3" Body Lift-2" Leveling Coils-33x12.50 Firestone Destination AT'S-15x8" Black Cragers-Myspace My Car Domain
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01-15-2008, 06:37 PM	#8
red85 Member Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: Kitchener, Ontario, CANADA Year: 1985 Make: Ford Model: Ranger Engine: 306 ci Class: 2WD Street Used For: making noise and burning gas Posts: 1,129 Rep Power: 14 iTrader: (0)	Get a 5 pin Bosch realay and harness. Use the + out lead on the park lights for a trigger for the relay. On the 85 lead on your relay put a switch there to keep it indepently controllable while the park lights are on. NEVER put a switch on the high amperage lead of any accesory; it will burn the switch. Control the ground side and things always work better. __________________ Professional Auto Service Tech 1996 Ranger XLT - 3.0 A4LD 1985 Ranger S - 306 ci/C4 (12.96 1/4)gone but not forgotten 1994 Ranger XL - 2.3T/M50D R1 (sadly retired now - Salt cancer got her) 2008 Ranger Sport - 3.0/M5OD R1 Don't ask a question if you don't want to hear the answer! Putting brains before dollars since 1970
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