CountyMounty
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Well I finally decided to do the fog lights on with brights mod since the days are getting shorter and I do a lot of late driving on rural roads. I had a bad feeling about it since me and electrical stuff just dont mix but it looked so simply, yeah right. I followed the project in the project section word for word and it was easy or so it seemed. In a matter of about 15 to 20 minutes I had it all done and put back together but when I went to try it out I had no headlights at all. I had to go to work so I left it alone for the night.
Today I took everything back apart to try to figure out what was wrong. I connected a jumper to both ends of the cut wire (luckily there was still enough to tie into on both ends). I then tried connecting things up in different ways but no matter what I did I could not get my highbeam headlights to work. The following is the results of the different things I tried, I will refer to the two ends as the "fuse end" and the "wire to light end".
1) "wire to light end" grounded= low beam headlights work, no highbeams or fogs
2) "fuse end" grounded= low beams headlights work, fogs work with both low or high beam (that is high beam as selected with the inside switch as the high beam lights do not work at all)
3) neither connected to ground= low beams work, no high beams, no fogs
4) the two ends connected back together= low beams work, no high beams, fogs with either low or high as selected with switch
This has left me puzzled, mainly #4 because that is back to the way it was before I did anything, so it should have worked nomal (low and high beams, fogs with only low)
My understanding of the project is that #2 is how it is supposed to be correctly moded.
Any help would be greatly appreciated. FYI its on a 2004 XLT.
Today I took everything back apart to try to figure out what was wrong. I connected a jumper to both ends of the cut wire (luckily there was still enough to tie into on both ends). I then tried connecting things up in different ways but no matter what I did I could not get my highbeam headlights to work. The following is the results of the different things I tried, I will refer to the two ends as the "fuse end" and the "wire to light end".
1) "wire to light end" grounded= low beam headlights work, no highbeams or fogs
2) "fuse end" grounded= low beams headlights work, fogs work with both low or high beam (that is high beam as selected with the inside switch as the high beam lights do not work at all)
3) neither connected to ground= low beams work, no high beams, no fogs
4) the two ends connected back together= low beams work, no high beams, fogs with either low or high as selected with switch
This has left me puzzled, mainly #4 because that is back to the way it was before I did anything, so it should have worked nomal (low and high beams, fogs with only low)
My understanding of the project is that #2 is how it is supposed to be correctly moded.
Any help would be greatly appreciated. FYI its on a 2004 XLT.
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