santino

i know its not too "legal" but looks cool and im sure the cops dont know the difference anyways...

i remember seeing a link on how to do this but i cant find it anymore

any one have that link or a similar one?

thanks

Tyrexx

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its illegal to have fog lights on in the daytime?

santino

i stated that i know its illegal, but i am looking for a link to how it can be done for our cars

Guttermouf5150

i was wondering the same thing. and is it illegal to drive with them on even at night? i mean if its not foggy or whatever?

ch13f

I have mine wired to the parking lights, and I removed the sidemarkers and the bumper lights, so basically when I turn on my parking lights, my fogs and my tail lights are the only things on. Looks pretty good with my rally gold bulbs in there... kinda has the CTS look going. I didn't realize it's illegal though... I'm not sure why it would be.

Tyrexx

iTrader: (23)

omg ppl I dont know where you live but damn, if its illegal to have fog lights on, I dont want to live there.....

salgue

in canada i think it is because they are supposed to have real drl. just wire the fog lights to a wire that has power on accesory and leave the switch always on.

WillMax95

there is no way this can be illegal. why would it be illegal to have lights on that can contribute to everyones safety on the road. people can see you when you are coming at them...

santino

Im not that suave with electrical work so thats why i wanted to know if there was a write up on how to do this

thanks guys

Ladzio

iTrader: (8)

So can anyone provide link or not??? This thread is loosing its point!!

OneToughMax

here you go buddy - i found this in the how-to's right on top of every 4th gen forum: http://forums.maxima.org/showthread.php?t=256440

Brudaddy

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I ride with all my lights on everytime I drive. It is just proven to be safer than without them. It is just habit for me to turn them on when I get in the car and to turn them off when I get out.

santino

Isnt this just to have the fog lights on as well as the daytime running lights tho?

during the day, when i start the car i want JUST the fog lights to be on no other lights and not have to switch anything

cant that be done?

thanks

Ladzio

iTrader: (8)

Wow, took 11 !! posts to get the link up here

That is the mod that want to do too actually, so it needs to be wired somehow diferently, maybe directly to the battery ??? ...

Anyone's done it...

OneToughMax

maybe you fellas aren't understanding...

if you follow the instructions in the link that i posted, you can turn on your fogs independently of your parking lights or headlights. you can run with ONLY fog lights if that's what you want. to clarify further:

you can run with ONLY parking lights,
ONLY fog lights,
ONLY parking lights and headlights,
ONLY fog lights and parking lights, or
fog lights, parking lights, and headlights.

also, your fogs will stay on when you use your high beams.

so, if you want to use your fogs as drl's, just turn on your foglight switch, and your fogs will go on when you start your car, and turn off when you turn off the car.

Taken2DaMax

iTrader: (5)

OneToughMax i understand you!

He's right you can do this independently of everything as long as the car is on. I did this in a matter of a couple of minutes. It's a really easy mod to do. Go to this link, it's easier done than said.

http://www.cardomain.com/memberpage/590995

Ladzio

iTrader: (8)

Thanks for the link! The thing I want to do though, is to wire independently my blinkers (turn signals), because they are yellow LED ones and when on they look relly cool like the caddy's yellow fogs or Lexus. However, I still want to preserve their functionality. How is it possible?
If it is not possible to keep their functionality while having them on, then I will turn the parking lights into blinkers.

OneToughMax

well, you're starting to lose me, but i think you are talking about this:

http://www.vqpower.com/v2/modules.ph...howpage&pid=53

Ladzio

iTrader: (8)

I'm confused, was that reply to me....

Just to clarify my goal - I want to have turn signals be lit just with a key in ACC position and still preserve their functionality as blinkers.

santino

Thank you very much, those pics reassured me that that write up is what i wanna do.

Thanks again

liqidvenom

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well i dont kno about fogs being illegal but before drl's become the norm people would get tickets for having lights on in the day time. back in houston my mom used to get the all the time cause she would forget to turn them off and cops would pull her over and hand her a ticket for driving with her lights on.

Ladzio

iTrader: (8)

Ohh, now I got you! Yes, I saw that write up but that won't work for me because I have LED blinkers which have only two wires coming out: ground and positive. There is also third wire, positive that lesds to resistor with bigger resistence I believe so LEDs would be dimmer (those are former truck LED turning signals). So it is slightly more complicated in my situation...

tynant

its not illegal in the us to drive with the fogs on when there is no fog....however I once drove from amsterdam to paris and almost everyone on the road flashed me....I had no idea why at the time, and was very confused! But when I got to paris, I was pulled over by the gendarme, and they told me to turn off my fogs because it was illegal to have them on with no fog! I didnt even kow they were on the whole time, but I wouldnt have thought anything of it even if I had known....

santino

ok i did this mod and i love it....one thing tho....the headlights are still the daytime runners, its just i have full control over the fog lights, so the fog lights will be on as well as the headlights when the car is on, thats what i dont want. when i turn on the car and the fog light switch is on i JUST want the fogs to come on nothing else

anyone got any tips?

thanks

OneToughMax

Dude Read The Writeup I Linked!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

santino

Dude thats not what im talking about!!!!!!!!!!!!

what i want has nothing to do with teh bumper lenses.

what i want to achieve is this

Car is on
Fog light switch is on
no other lights on the car are on

what happens is this

car is on
headlight drl are on
fog lights are on (when switch is turned to on position)

a little trick to get around this is to start the car with the handbrake on and leave it in the first notch and then the headlights will not go into drl mode, just the fogs will be turned on when u flick the switch,

is there a way to do this withouthe handbrake trick?

santino

by the way what H3 bulbs and corner light bulbs does that car have? the color is very consistant, i got a white max too and i want it to look like that bright white

thanks

Ladzio

iTrader: (8)

So no one has any clues how to wire in my case? Gotta start researching how is that all electric wiring setup in my car...