Auxilary Fog Light Help

[Buckeye Ranger]

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]

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.

 

[Buckeye Ranger]

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)]

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]

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]

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]

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

 

[red85]

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.