So back story. I'm intoxicated. Wait, that's the current story.
Back story. My car has a few aftermarket electrical mods. Nothing too fancy, no lights that blind oncoming traffic for no good reason, no flourescent tubes underneath. No lowered suspension that bottoms out on speed bumps. Just a couple extra lights for those open stretches of highway at 3AM and a monster sound system because, well, sound. Quality over volume if anyone wonders.
So my fog lights were wired into a regular marker light. Not so much a problem since that way at "parking" light setting my markers and fog would come on, low beam and high beam would function normally. At both of those fog lights on all the time. Problem is they burned out quick because the markers flashed when using keyless lock/unlock.
So today I decided was the day to both replace the bulbs and tidy up some other aftermarket wiring. You know those tasks that aren't so bad, but then you have 5 of them all at once and your life is crap? Ya, that was me today. Start on tidying up wires.
Bundle all the low beam wires and relays together, same with the highbeams. Move the fog light relay over to the low beam circuit instead of tapping into a parking light. Which by the way that one parking light is dead now. Figures. Decide that I only want the fogs on with low beams anyways and this will reduce their flashing with the lock/unlock. That's never good for bulb life. Maybe all that flashing is what killed the parking light. Deal with it later.
So then I go to replace the fog lights. Why they don't turn on? Has nothing to do with the bulbs this time. Has more to do with the fact that the back has rusted right out of both the floccing enclosures. The bulbs are just fine but lose their ground because they're not connected to anything. Damn it! Here I was trying to get half assed quality parts that are metal and glass - not cheap plastic so that they'd last a little white and the damn things rusted out on me.
So now the main reason I went out there - to replace fog bulbs and change their relay location is all lost. And I need to give them up forever or buy new housings. Damn it. Oh well, drunken rambling thread to the rescue.
Back story. My car has a few aftermarket electrical mods. Nothing too fancy, no lights that blind oncoming traffic for no good reason, no flourescent tubes underneath. No lowered suspension that bottoms out on speed bumps. Just a couple extra lights for those open stretches of highway at 3AM and a monster sound system because, well, sound. Quality over volume if anyone wonders.
So my fog lights were wired into a regular marker light. Not so much a problem since that way at "parking" light setting my markers and fog would come on, low beam and high beam would function normally. At both of those fog lights on all the time. Problem is they burned out quick because the markers flashed when using keyless lock/unlock.
So today I decided was the day to both replace the bulbs and tidy up some other aftermarket wiring. You know those tasks that aren't so bad, but then you have 5 of them all at once and your life is crap? Ya, that was me today. Start on tidying up wires.
Bundle all the low beam wires and relays together, same with the highbeams. Move the fog light relay over to the low beam circuit instead of tapping into a parking light. Which by the way that one parking light is dead now. Figures. Decide that I only want the fogs on with low beams anyways and this will reduce their flashing with the lock/unlock. That's never good for bulb life. Maybe all that flashing is what killed the parking light. Deal with it later.
So then I go to replace the fog lights. Why they don't turn on? Has nothing to do with the bulbs this time. Has more to do with the fact that the back has rusted right out of both the floccing enclosures. The bulbs are just fine but lose their ground because they're not connected to anything. Damn it! Here I was trying to get half assed quality parts that are metal and glass - not cheap plastic so that they'd last a little white and the damn things rusted out on me.
So now the main reason I went out there - to replace fog bulbs and change their relay location is all lost. And I need to give them up forever or buy new housings. Damn it. Oh well, drunken rambling thread to the rescue.