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Fog lights - 12/8/2007 8:11:09 PM

djailer

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I just joined the 'club'. Congrats to me!!

I haven't found this specific answer yet, but if I missed it do point me the right way.

I have a 97 GST. The guy I bought it from wired fog lights straight from the battery and hung the switch out the glove box - tacky..tacky. I would really like to hook it into the factory fog light switch. I made the mistake of going in to my local Mitsu dealer. He is almost more clueless than me. The counter guy looked up and down, talked with his techs, downloaded a wiring diagram and couldn't tell me squat. He said something to the effect of the brown and green wires are grounds, etc., blah.

Only problem is there are seven wires coming out of that bad boy - and none are green. Several brown ones and a blue, I think it is. I bought the Chiltons but that isn't helping a lot. Any luck here? I really appreciate the time. I may be all over this board as I get to know my new toy.

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RE: Fog lights - 12/8/2007 11:25:48 PM

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You should have stock foglights (obviously)... whats wrong with those?

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RE: Fog lights - 12/8/2007 11:50:20 PM

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I put aftermarket fog lights on my last car, and the wire colors didn't match up at all. That's probably the problem you are running into. Seven wires coming out of the fog lights? That sounds like its alot. Not too sure how to wire them into the stock fog lights tho...sorry.

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RE: Fog lights - 12/9/2007 6:25:02 AM

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Dusty - no stock lights. He put in the (I assume) aftermarket ones.

ThreePK2 - The seven wires are not coming from the lights but out of the switch on the panel.

The lights themselves have three wires - one goes straight to the battery, one goes to the lights themselves and one goes I don't know where- maybe it is to the negative terminal? I can't tell. It goes through the firewall and I can't find it coming out. It may be hidden under the battery. The lights have one wire going to the right light. That light has one wire to ground and the other goes across to the left light. That one also has a ground. I told you it was funky.

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RE: Fog lights - 12/10/2007 6:31:47 AM

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Step 1.) Rip out everything that the previous owner wired up.....switch in the glove box = POOP. You never know what sort of mess a previous owner has installed into a car, and IMHO is always a safer bet to do it yourself. Hence why I'm so leary about buying a car with electrical stuff already added.
Step 2.) I'm not sure of the layout on the 2g Eclipse lamp switch, but 7 wires is wierd, considering it takes only a 12v switched and a ground to make them work. Best step, meter them. Find out what each wire meters out to, and bring the information back here.

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RE: Fog lights - 12/10/2007 4:09:57 PM

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Ahhh, I see why it sounded weird. I sortof winged the number thing the first time around. I looked again and actually there are only four wires. A black with a sortof yellow stripe, green/blue, green w/white stripe, and green w/black stripe. Does that help at all? I will still run a multimeter on them and see what turns up.

Yes, the yanking out and replacing is the order of the day. Won't be hard since all of it consists of three wires running willy-nilly through the firewall. If I cannot figure out the factory switch I will probably add on an aux fuse box and run it through there. I need to do that anyway with the two powered wires already stuck to the fuse blades which go to the pylon gauges and God knows where else. Uuuuckkk