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Old 02-14-12 | 10:45 PM
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someone PM me on how to do stand alone fogs without adding another switch. If I can use the orginial way of just twisting the **** so i can turn fogs on without having the low beams on.
I don't think that's possible.
Old 02-14-12 | 11:38 PM
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What gauge wire do you guys reccomend for this mod?
Old 02-14-12 | 11:38 PM
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giants 14 is fine.

when I installed my new headlights I had to get rid of the fog light mod, now to figure out a way to run fogs/LED's only
Old 02-14-12 | 11:44 PM
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^ok Thanks! If it matters I'm doing the "normal" way - tapping the light green/silver dots wire and the white wire and running them to the cabin.
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I take it your goin with the rocker switch?
Old 02-15-12 | 12:08 AM
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Originally Posted by Vroomin350
I take it your goin with the rocker switch?
Yeah I am for now. Might upgrade to the oem Toyota switch later.
Old 02-15-12 | 12:11 AM
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This is the most important mod for the people who have 2011 headlights. I'm glad there's no modification required to do this mod (Middle East spec).
Old 02-15-12 | 01:49 AM
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Originally Posted by GiantsFan
^ok Thanks! If it matters I'm doing the "normal" way - tapping the light green/silver dots wire and the white wire and running them to the cabin.
Post up some detailed pics please!
Old 02-15-12 | 08:25 AM
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There is a way to do it with the stock switch in the stalk, you just need to tap into the fog wire before it gets multiplexed in the wiper switch. When looking for any pure signals for lighting, you need to get to them before they have a chance to be digitized. There is a pure fog light wire in the steering column between the headlight switch and foglight switch, that is where you need to tap in to use it to control anything.

I have not done this, but I'm sure I could.

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Originally Posted by Rash
This is the most important mod for the people who have 2011 headlights. I'm glad there's no modification required to do this mod (Middle East spec).
Wait, what? Middle East spec has the stand alone fog ability stock?

Originally Posted by Jeff Lange
There is a way to do it with the stock switch in the stalk, you just need to tap into the fog wire before it gets multiplexed in the wiper switch. When looking for any pure signals for lighting, you need to get to them before they have a chance to be digitized. There is a pure fog light wire in the steering column between the headlight switch and foglight switch, that is where you need to tap in to use it to control anything.

I have not done this, but I'm sure I could.

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Please figure out how to do this Jeff.
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Many other countries (including Japan) do not have rules like we do about fogs only being on with low beams, Japanese-spec cars have independent fog lights usually.

I'm not going to do it on my car, so while I could give you instructions to do it, it's not as easy to explain what to do if you've never done it yourself, haha.

Just saying, get into the column, tap into the fog wire between the headlight switch and the wiper switch, and use that to trigger the fog lights.

Pin 3 and 4 on the headlight switch are the fog light switch, wire colours are black and light blue.

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jeff man come to the U.S! haha

my benz had stand alone fogs from factory, lexus is wack!!
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Originally Posted by brociouz
Wait, what? Middle East spec has the stand alone fog ability stock?
No, but I use the LED only + fogs.
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Originally Posted by Rash
No, but I use the LED only + fogs.
I'm confused. How do you turn on your fogs? Do you have to have your lowbeams on at the same time?
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yea I wonder if they have a seperate **** for the fogs, I would LOVE to be able to run just the LED with the fogs on...



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