JHedrick

Original owner...Just replaced yellowed headlights, a rotted odometer gear, and finally rewiring fog lights to come on with parking lights. QUESTION: Will I have any over-amperage issue, if I just splice the fog light wire into the parking light wire on the back of the headlight harness? Thanks in advance.

JHedrick

So there is no "edit" or "delete" on your own threads?? Turns out, the wire I thought was to the Fog Light Relay, is also the "Headlight Relay", and both were still on, so never mind the original question. I see there are "Kits" to do what I'm trying to do, but they don't seem to be for 96-98 Stangs. Is there an easy way to allow the fog lights to work independently of the headlights (meaning make them DRL's ) that are on/off with ignition?

Urambo Tauro

You could do something like that at the switch, without altering anything under the hood. The stock wiring requires the low beams to be on in order for the fog lamp switch to activate the fog lamp relay, but you can rewire the switch to receive power from one of the nearby circuits, depending on how you want it to function.

You could power the fog lamp switch from the nearby dash illumination circuit (so that you can turn the fogs on anytime the park lamps are on, regardless of whether the low or high beams were on). Or you could borrow some hot-at-all-times power from the also-nearby cigar lighter circuit to give the switch the ability to operate independently of the rest of the lighting. But if you want that power to come from the key/ignition, I can't think of anything in the immediate area that you could tap into. I guess you'd have to run a wire from the dash.

08'MustangDude

FOGS ON WHENEVER YOU WANT:

JHedrick

I can work with both of those suggestions. Thank you.