Fog Lights..

[TU_Later 0]

Sorry Ladys and Gents, I'm a manufacturing engineer.. Definately not electrically minded!

 

Any help, pictures, diagrams would be immense!

 

Cheers, Steve

[pug_ham 245 3 Cars]

Different lenses afaik, they have a beam pattern.

 

Graham.

[welshpug 1,737]

And the reflector is different too.

 

as for wiring them up you need to re-wire it so that the main beam switch triggers the relay rather than the fog lamp switch (if there is a front fog relay, I cant remember right now, you may need to add one)

[TU_Later 0]

Cheers gents,

 

I'll wire it up, and change to a driving light lense

[Rob_the_Sparky 10]

But the 205GTi doesn't have front fogs as standard anyway. Either you have something wrong or your car has been modified to change the drivign lights into fog lights in the first place...

[welshpug 1,737]

you could have them s Fogs from new if you wanted afaik.

[Para 82 2 Cars]

Yes, and you was getting an extra button inside with fog lights

[TU_Later 0]

But the 205GTi doesn't have front fogs as standard anyway. Either you have something wrong or your car has been modified to change the drivign lights into fog lights in the first place...

 

okay, let me reword it.. i want to change my lower driving lights so they come on with standard dipped beam, not just full beam. Possible?

[welshpug 1,737]

as far as I know they must only come on with main beam if they are driving lamps.

[timb1046 1]

if you do this you'll be breaking the law slightly and therefore always running the risk of a fine from the plod. Its also realy annoying to other drivers. the only way you could have then emmiting light would be if the had side light bulbs in that came on with dipped and then the full bulb with main. that or use a dual fillament bulb with the 'dipped' fillament at a low voltage. even with this done I'm not 100% sure on the leagality side of things.

 

could I ask why you want this? having the driving lights with full beam helps greatly at night, but as they're only with full beam you dont have them on against on-coming traffic so they're leagal. I cant see the advantage of having them on with dipped. but there maywell be one, if you'd like to share?

[Rob_the_Sparky 10]

That certainly isn't something I'd want to do.

 

It would be possible to re-wire them to be on with dips but as driving lights it would be like having a set of main beam lights on all the time and would get you pulled pretty quickly. If you also swapped the units for fog lights then you could do it but I'd have thought you should really also add a foglight switch inside.

 

All is possible, but unless you are going to do it properly then not advisable. The downside would be poorer main beam lights as fog lights don't light up the road very well.

 

Rob