| bourmb |
| When I owned by 03 Odyssey, I ran a jumper on the backside of the foglight switch on the dash so I could use my highbeams with the foglights. Does anyone know which two wires allows this to occur? |
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| dj-mdx2 |
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Originally posted by bourmb
When I owned by 03 Odyssey, I ran a jumper on the backside of the foglight switch on the dash so I could use my highbeams with the foglights. Does anyone know which two wires allows this to occur?
Are you talking about the Ody or the MDX? |
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| dj-mdx2 |
OK, I got it, you just bought an X - my bad. Just saw your other post.
This is an older foglight wiring thread that might help. |
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| G. COLTON |
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Originally posted by bourmb
When I owned by 03 Odyssey, I ran a jumper on the backside of the foglight switch on the dash so I could use my highbeams with the foglights. Does anyone know which two wires allows this to occur?
Why would you want to do this? If you turn on your high beams when you need your fog lights you will blind yourself with the reflected light. That is the reson for the lights being wired they way they are.
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| bourmb |
| I got significantly better light using the mod on the Ody because high beams raise the level of light dispersion on the road. Therefore, the fog light addition throws light down in front of the vehicle. |
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| jargoone |
I did this mod on my old Maxima, but it was purely for cosmetics. I liked to have my fogs on with my parking lights. I'm pretty sure that's illegal, though.
The main purpose of fog lights is for other vehicles to see you. If you think about it, illuminating the road in front of you accomplishes two things:
1) Constricts your pupils, making your night vision worse.
2) Illuminates objects that you can't possibly avoid, even if you can see them.
I feel "better" being able to see more of the road, but there are reasons that this isn't the best thing to do. |
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| bourmb |
| I respect your opinion, but I have come use to the light output with the highbeam/foglight combination. Besides, the foglights do cover quite a bit of the sides of the roads, too (deer). |
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| G. COLTON |
When you are traveling with high beams you generally are out on the highway. At those speeds the fog lights will not illuminate anything that you can can stop in time to avoid. That is assuming that the fogs are properly adjusted.
All they do is anoy other drivers on the road.
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| hammermdx |
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Originally posted by G. COLTON
When you are traveling with high beams you generally are out on the highway. At those speeds the fog lights will not illuminate anything that you can can stop in time to avoid. That is assuming that the fogs are properly adjusted.
All they do is anoy other drivers on the road.
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Not true where I live. I usually use my high beams on the back roads that have no street lights and it's tough to see at night. I do agree that I'm not sure how much the fogs would really help with the high beams on. Never driven a car in that situation. |
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