Fog lights with high beams

[HMD]

I thought I had come across something on this before but can't seem to find it.

I want my fogs to stay on with my high beams on my 2008 Ranger, would the wirng be the same as the 07. And if so does anyone know where I can find the info to do it.

-HMD

 

[lil_Blue_Ford]

Not sure about where you live, but down here in PA in the States it is illegal to have the high beams come on while the fogs are on. Just FWIW.

 

[RangerFella]

What? Why? LOL that sounds like a silly law....

 

[HMD]

Not sure about where you live, but down here in PA in the States it is illegal to have the high beams come on while the fogs are on. Just FWIW.

I like the wide beam pattern with the fogs on but would like to have more distance. There are alot of moose around here and it's a long drive to the next town at night lookin for them in the ditches.

Besides, around here it must not be illegal as I have seen numerous other truck wired this way and people tend to run thier full lightbars on the highway anyway. Atleast till you see another vehical a few miles ahead.

Does anyone know how to wire it so they stay on with the high beams?

 

[Quiksurf]

how skilled are you at electrical?

if you are not very skilled at electrical this will not be easy to accomplish without some severe modifications or an added switch. then you would loose the fog lamp switch functionality. the smart junction box controls the ground side of the fog lamp relay by gnding the brown wire at the smart juction box; you could just wire a gnd side switch to this feed and disconnect it from the smart junction box, but that would disable the headlamp switch fog lamp control. you could bypass the sjb, except the sjb fog lamp input switch is a power (grey/violet) so you could use the fog lamp input switch power to feed a relay power, ground the other side of the coil, now you have a relay commanded by the factory head lamp switch. now connect one of the switched side of the relay to the brown wire at the sjb and the normally open contact of the relay to ground, cut the brown and grey/violett wires at the sjb and you should have factory switch controlled fog lamps in all positions. the sjb would be bypassed.


............ well in theory at least.

 

[shizzy]

in all honesty I would just add a set of driving lights. fogs and driving lights are two different shaped beams. Sounds like you are looking to shoot lots of light forward, not out to the side for a short distance.

 

[AllanD]

It's a constant struggle for me to resist SHOOTING AT people who drive around with their foglamps on all the time.

If you want "moose lights" you don't want your fogs on all the time, what you want is a set of DRIVING LIGHTS and set them up a bit "crosseyed" to illuminat the shoulders better.

Foglamps aimed so that they'd illuminate more than a moose's ankles
are justification for you to be on the receiving end of a volley of
small arms fire.

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[Ballistik]

This might be what your looking for

http://www.therangerstation.com/tech_library/foglight_rewire.htm