In IceY2k1's write up as shown, in step #6 where it says to

"Connect the spliced wire with an inline fuse to the turn signals' RED wire with 2-yellow longitudinal stripes and single horizontal silver band every 1".

What wire do we use on the 2k2 HIDs? Which color wire on the turn signals or clearance light?
Because the wire described above, for the 2k-2k1's is one of the HID wires on the 2k2-2k3's, which is where I made my mistake today.

Please help me because I want to get this finished before it gets dark out. I'm so ****ed at myself right now!!

Directions:

0)DISCONNECT BATTERY!!!!

1) Remove passenger-side engine bay relay block cover 2-snaps. I also removed the coolant resevior to make things easier.

2) Remove the snaps to separate the middle section from the bottom. This step is to gain access to the bottom side of the BLUE foglight selinoids'(Top left corner of box) 4-wires.

3) Cut the Yellow wire with 2-silver horizontal bands leaving PLENTY of slack to splice. There are two yellow wires in the relay block, but only one goes to the fog light selinoids' "front-of-vehicle" terminal(right terminal if your looking down while on passenger side).

4) Splice a wire to the cut end that connects to the FOG LIGHT selinoid terminal NOT the one that goes OUT of the fuse block.

5) Drill or poke a hole in the bottom of the relay block case to allow the new wire you just spliced to fit through.

6) Connect the spliced wire with an inline fuse to the turn signals' RED wire with 2-yellow longitudinal stripes and single horizontal silver band every 1". You could also use the front side marker positive wire, but if you make them flash with your turn signals the fog lights will also flash.

 

All you need is 12V, so that it activates the relay when the running lamp comes on.

There are ONLY two wires on the running lamp...you got a 50/50 chance.

Or just use a multimeter to find out which is ground vs. 12V.

 

Thanks Alex,
but there's not much slack on the 2 running light wires, so I can't really guess which wire to use because if I'm wrong then I wont have any wire left to splice the 2 back together.

Anyone know the answer? The running light has one black wire and one green wire with a white stripe running the length of it.

-J.

 

I would venture to say the black is ground, just b/c that is supposed to be common practice...but this is a Nissan, so who the hell really knows.

 

Green with white MOST LIKELY, however it depends on how YOU wired it to the stock H4.

Only difference matters when the bulb burns out. If the bulb is working EITHER will work.

 

Hmm, well I wired it exactly as per Dixit's write up if that helps. So far it looks like I'm a gonna cut the green wire.

 

Call the bomb squad

 

Screw it, I'm going to try the Green.

 

 

Yes, per Dixit's write-up Red/Yellow-->Green/White-->Parking +

 

So the black really is the ground?

 

Nope, well the fogs still don't turn on at all and NOW the running lights don't work.

Alex what's my problem here? I just so tempted to rewire it all back to stock right now.

The fog wire that I AM supposed to splice is the end that comes out of the relay right? Not the one that is coming up from the bottom of the black box right?

 

Well I'm gonna wash the car and check back for answers in a bit.

 

Did you check to see if the running lamp worked AFTER you tapped the red wire on your FIRST attempt? If not, you probably blew the fuse.

You need to get a voltmeter! Dixit will know more about *HIS* setup, so I'd hit him up.

 

Sounds like you have THAT backwards, which would cause your fogs to no longer work.

Splice the piece of wire going to the relay NOT out of the box.

 

That's what I did. I spliced the wire coming out of the relay.

And yes, my running lights DID work when I spliced the red wire first.

J.

 

So you SPLICED the cut wire from the relay and TAPPED the other end of that wire to the green/white, right?

 

I spliced the cut wire from the relay and connected it to a piece of wire i bought and then tapped THAT wire to the green/white.

The other end of the wire that i cut, which was not spliced to anything was just wrapped in electrical tape.

I did PM Dixit for help.

 

Why won't it work?!??

EDIT: I was about to leave for a night drive, and I noticed my tail lights, and gauge lights don't work either!
I've got some big problems.

 

Bumpy

 

FUSES! Check them.

 

I checked the fog light fuse and it's fine. Which fuse is the tail light and guage light fuse? Those one aren't labeled. I hope I didn't break a relay or something.

 

I loathe electrical problems.

 

This is DEFINITELY Dixit's area of expertise, since I don't blow fuses or melt body grounds.

I'll look at my ESM, which I LOVE to do. However, I recommend you take an equivalent NEW fuse and swap them one at a time. Sometimes fuses APPEAR to be not blown, but are blown.

You'll probably find it faster then I will with the ESM.

 

Thanks Alex,
I'll see what I can do. I sure hope I get this fixed today.

 

it cant be a fuse if the parking lights still work

 

But the parking lights DON'T work.

 

aiight bro its a fuse
open ur driver door and open that little door under the dash and take out every fuse untill u find it...hehe might take u 15 mins

 

Fun fun fun... here I go.

 

if i was right, u owe me

 

 

I owe you Igor.
But the fuse was under the hood not one of those from the fuse box under the dash.

Just one minor problem. The passenger side parking light doesn't work. It's not the bulb because I checked another bulb and it doesn't work either. Could it be a fuse again? If it were, wouldn't that whole side of the car be out and not just ONE light?

 

hehe YAY I WAS RIGHT

Check the fuses again....

 

I just noticed that the interior lights don't work. (dome, map, door lights) DOH! I checked that fuse that says "room lamp" and it's fine.

 

it should be the "ELECTRONIC PARTS" fuse, check them all

 

I was really hoping to do this mod on my '02 GLE (I mean, come on, if you're going to have fog lights, why can't you control them separately?). But seeing the problems you're having, I guess I'll have to pass.

 

Nevermind. It was just a loose connection on the passengers side parking light and I put the fuse in the wrong slot, that's why the interior lights didn't work.
Damn, my wiring job on the HIDs looked messy and now I just added to it!

Thanks Alex, Igor, and Dixit for all your help.

And Aggie, you should do the rewire. It's not as hard as I made it out to be. Ask anyone on here.

 

i think u get the "I CANT REWIRE MY FOGS" of the yr award! u made it seem soo freakin complicated that u scared a member away from doing it lol

 

I knew it was something either REALLY simple or REALLY baaaaaad. Either way, I can't really help over the internet.

Glad you figured it out though.

 

I am still confused. Do we splice the wire that comes OUT of the top of the relay or the wire that comes up from the bottom? What color is the wire (and where is it) you get the power from that you splice the other end of the wire to?