THIS IS FOR A 2k2/2k3, I dont know the colors for the 2k/2k1, please don't as me.

Since everyone has been asking for it and people getting informed wrong, im just gonna do quick one. Giovanni (kloogy) has the pic and he'll upload it in a bit.

Remove the Fuse box cover. After that, you need to remove the fuse box. Take out 2 10mm bolts screwed into the body of the passanger side. Undo 5 tabs, 3 on the front and 1 on each side. Grip the fuse box and pull, the rear of the box doesn't have tabs, if you just pull, they will come out.

Locate the FOG LIGHT relay and underneath, locate a blue wire with silver dots. Get some slack on the wire and cut about 6 inches away from the relay. Tape up the wire that goes down, wrap electrical tape around it and tuck it away.

Locate the TAIL LIGHT relay and underneath, locate a red wire with a green stripe with silver dots. Get a wire tap and tap in the blue wire from the relay into the red wire.

Put the box back together and you're done.

 

Here is the only Pic I was able to take.... since my battery died on camera...



Once Mor(killerse) located the wires we needed to tap, it took less than 2 minutes to do this..... save yourself from running extra wires to parking lights... !

 

could this be done on a 03 i35 also?
i live in the valley (818) is there anyone willing to help me do this.... i dont like electrical stuff

 

You might want to PM Killer.....he lives in Canoga.. and is pretty well skilled...just PM him !

 

Not quite correct. There are hidden clips on the fender side of the box that need to be pinched inward (like this from an above view ----> <----) - otherwise, you will have trouble getting the fender side of the box off.

 

nice writeup, as soon as the weather clears up here..Im doing it

 

I saw him do it....he just pulled up onit, and they came up with pressure...so I dont know...

 

He must have yanked REALLY hard - good thing he didn't break anything. Matt (Umnitza) and I did it together, and came to the conclusion that I wrote about. I'd like to think that we are competent enough to notice that Killer either forgot to write about that step, or just bypassed it with a lot of extra force. However, props to Killer for making the writeup, in any case. Now I can drive with only my DDE's and fogs at night, making my DDE's stand out even more.

 

wish I had seen this writeup 3 weeks ago when I tapped my fogs into the corners... sounds like this is a bit easier still. Oh well, I got the same effect.
I still have no idea why Nissan didnt wire the fogs to go on independently of the low beams anyways... well good writeup guys! My sig has the pic of my Max with just fogs and corners on. Love the look!

 

May I recommend this NOT be done.

You guys are truly playing with "fire" here.

If you are going to snip a wire, that's fine, run it to another relay in that case, one from radio shack for 30A is only $5.

You MUST squeeze the tabs, the picture clearly shows them in the middle, without those tabs, you will not be able to remove this unit.

If you are going to do this the right way, you don't have to pull the box off at all.

NO WARRANTY, NO IMPLIED CONSENT, NOT DIRECTIONS JUST COMMENTS <-- legalese
Get a little metal hook (like a dental pick) tool to pull the blue wire out with the relay, snip it off, then run the wire from the relay to another secondary relay (blue wire with silver dots).

Then, take that other relay, run power to the batter, ground to ground, and run the trigger to a switch, then run the switch to a permanent ignition based power source. Voila, switchable fogs without any other lights

 

The whole point of doing it this way is to still have use of the stock foglight switch(i think).

 

I see the point he is making about running a separate switch for the fogs. But what we want is to run the fogs with the parking light. It's the preference of each Maxima owner.

I like the parking lights and fogs on at the same time but now I am thinking about running it separately on a switch because I'm afraid of any problems down the road if perhaps of an electrical problem. Well, the fuse should blow if something were to happen on the above directions on this thread.

what's your opinion?

 

I had mine rewired for quite a while ^ is the picture.
I have a Piaa Xtreme White in the Driver-side and the stock on the Passanger-side. (This Pic While I was Putting them in.)

 

I think you guys are thinking of it too simply.

With a switch, you have the fogs on ANY time.

That mean, if you switch your parking lights on, you can run your fogs, if you switch your headlights on, you can run the fogs, if you don't have ANYTHING on, you can still run the fogs.

On our BMWs, they made it really goofy.

The ONLY time you can run the fogs is when the headlights switch is either position 1 or 2. Fogs cannot be run by themselves.

 

umnitza, If the rewire causes the stalk mounted switch to be the only control on the fogs, you're correct, but there is another desirable (possibly even a motor vehicle code) behavior.

When you turn on your high beams, stock wired fogs go off.

What I'm planning on doing is to add a second switch. This will override the stalk switch (turning on the fogs under all conditions) but allow me to stick with the default behavior if I don't use the second switch.

 

what I propose doesn't affect your stock switching characteristics.

 

Best way to do it the way i have it. Never have to think about the fogs. They are always on when my parking lights are on.

 

I'd rather have a separate switch on the dash as Matt indicates- u have more control

If anything were ever to happen to the headlights/fuse(@nighttime), you can run your fogs
and drive home

 

Manny, these instructions are for wiring your fogs to your tail lights, not your headlights. However, I guess tail lights can get messed up as well, so having a fog light relayed to a switch may be the best solution. However, like I said, I like my current setup - east and effective.

 

I truthfully don't understand how. You said to cut the wire going to the existing relay.

I intend to add another switch, and either use it to send power to the same relay (probably the simpler way), or to send power to a new relay that will send power to the fogs (probably more complex.)

If I'm misunderstanding what you propose, I'm ready to learn.

 

Believe it or not, my 11 year old brother can do this rewire with no problems.
Trust me this is too easy. My bro can seriously do this. I did mine and my friend's TL-S. His was even easier. I couldn't believe it could get easier than ours.

 

SkyDaver - Manny hit it perfectly on the head what I propose.

You're just telling the existing relay you have another relay sending it power. You can turn your fogs on whenever you want instead of only with your parking or only with your headlights or whatever

 

umnitza, I think we're in vehement agreement, and it was someone else that was planning to rewire so the stalk (stock) switch was independent of the low beams.

I just can't visualize what wires you're talking about without seeing the wiring while I read your description.

Can't do that tonight ... the Pearl is over at the dealer, waiting for new CV boot in the morning.

 

The point of tapping into the tailight was just for a signal. What does it matter if you ran a seperate wire to the corner and made it uglier?

Umnitza, That is a good idea if you wanted to fogs on standalone, But this was just for the parking light rewire. You can tap whatever way you guys want, this is the way i did it, and the way many others have done it.

 

with no electical background this is confusing. This is a long shot, but would you have a drawing on this setup by any chance? I don't even know what a relay looks like.

 

I hate being an electrical mental midget. I would love to have them rewired w/o parking or any other lights necessary.

I know what a relay looks like (I even know what it's purpose is) but I still don't trust myself to mess with the wiring

 

I just rewired my foglights in my 00 Maxima everything worked out fine but, I just wanted to find out if the foglight switch on the stick turns on the fogs no matter what else is on. Because, now if I leave the foglights on they won't turn off when I turn off the car unless I remember to physically turn them off, where as before they used to just cut out when you turn off the car. Is your setup like this, if not what is it?

 

I don't know about the features in an 00, but in the 2k2, the lights will stay on for a few minutes if its not on the auto feature until it gets turned off by the timer.
If you don't have that feature, this writeup was for a 2k2..2k's have a different wiring schematic.

 

if u used the t-tap method the only way your fogs will come are 1. when the parking lights are turned on or 2. when the headlights are turned on(which include the parking lights). if you turn the lights off the fogs should turn off also. If i am understanding you correctly the fogs are remaining on? despite the auto option for the lights as soon as u turn the car off everything will go off.

 

You've got to be kidding right? You bought back a thread from 2004 to do what?

 

you replied to a post from - 05-29-2004

you dont think he figured this out in all this time?

 

For those of you who haven't seen this site check it out http://www.innerbean.com/housecor/fog_rewire.html
Umnitza I understand your idea but do you (or anyone else in that case) know how to wire the additional relay to the factory fog light switch. I don't like cutting up the interior for a switch or having one hang down etc. If we are playing with fire doing this write-up then couldn't we use a fuse to prevent something bad from happening. I know it could be a pita if we had to replace fuses every now and then to prevent a fire I would do it.

 

that how-to has been around almost as long as the org...most people that have been around for a few years used that.
i rewired my 00 back in 03

 

http://forums.maxima.org/showthread.php?t=64574

 

jkmay01,
please stop bringing back old threads. if you are actually adding something to the thread, thats one thing. but in the numerous threads you have bumped, you have added nothing. you have answered questions and given advice that wasnt even needed anymore based on the age of the thread (and the fact that is was also answered years ago). you are simply repeating info already in the thread.

 

sooner I see what u r saying here. I am not one to make waves! if the thread is year or however old and u want no more additions to threads can u close them? my intention is not to reopen threads

 

O Rly? I just found it , I thought it was new. ......
For someone that is talking about worthless thread bump no one cares about the quote in this message.

 

its new to YOU

 

I was obviously being sarcastic genius

 

and so was i...i added a smilie to convey that