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Old 05-11-2010, 03:54 PM   #1 (permalink)
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Fog light install DIY supplement

So I felt like I could give a try at giving back to the community. This DIY will jack some threads and steal pictures Mainly I'm jacking Kotori's thread with rtagn's DIY and supplementing to it.

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Wiring foglights for camry LE gen 6

I am graduating in december, so my pictures will go down in december when I lose the server space.. and I don't know/am too lazy to figure out how to save pics on this site; hopefully by then there will be a real thread made by a pro.
.. but here goes:

Kit was the one bought by alfaotta. It's the only one I've tried.. ppl say the fog housing is good, but it's very hard for me to recommend this kit considering the amount of work I had to put in to it. And the biggest minus is that the switch simply isn't gonna fit.

I believe my way of install is the least intrusive way of installing this particular set of fogs, which is why I'm posting.


Step1) Remove 2x rain shields and install the fog lights themselves


As with Rtagn's guide, "Those tabs should be underneath and tucked in that piece not outside"

step2) Prepare the wiring

Mine's like this set. only the two fog light connectors (h11) look different on my kit. The red wire with the gray connector was the pos for the switch and the white wire w/ brown connector was the pos for foglight-power.

step3) Extend wires

This is where things get interesting. You'll need to extend 3 wires. As you'll notice, the switch has a yellow, two reds, and a black. If you trace the two reds far enough, you'll see that they were a single red split in to two. I extended the red, black and yellow of course. You'll count four wires here. Rtagn helped me pull the first two and I pulled two others before realizing I only needed one more.

step4) pull wires through firewall

That's the best pic I could get of the firewall.. sorry guys
If you imagine a black donut that's put in a circular box, the typical wires go through the middle of the donut. rtagn helped me pull through the outside of the donut

step5) find your switch-wiring route

There's the other side of the firewall (driver's feet)


brake-side picture

A little higher up so you can get a better picture. You can see the thick black wire above my four reds. I just followed that wire's path behind the metal stuff

Keep tracing and u get to emergency brake side.



Here's the hardest part of the install: Wiring it through that hole w/o pulling anything apart. It took me about 10-15 mins of poking wires and sticking my fingers through the fog switch hole to get the wire. So all-in-all it took me about 30 mins of thinking to find my route of wiring through engine bay, firewall, and to the switch area so that I wouldn't have to pull stuff apart.

step6) Wire it up however you please

Here's a picture of my switch wired to the low beam. This DOES NOT prevent fogs from staying on when u high beam. Wiring switch to low beam does this:
1) low beam on, switch on = fog lights on
2) low beam off = fog lights off (doesn't matter switch position)
This prevents fogs from being on when u lock up the car.


The Switch ground is kinda hidden there. It's the black wire I've highlighted


that's a pic taken from under the car. I wired the fogs' grounding wire to what I think are the low beam grounds


I was very dissatisfied with the light ouput with stock low beam h11 bulbs as well as the alfaotto bulbs, so I stuck a ddm 35watt 5000k kit in there. This light is much more satisfying but it would be very inconsiderate of me to leave it like this. TALK ABOUT GLARE. It doesn't look like much, but I have a feeling it'll bother other drivers, so I'll wait till night time to find a better spot to adjust the glare.

How am I gonna do this? the same way I did my low beam squirrel spotters back when I used the ddm kit: I'm gonna find the points of glare and spray some paint over it ghetto style Only.. it looked horrendous on the low beams so I'll paint those spots blue instead of white.

Headlights are fx-rs done by pawel. I split the high beam with drl so I have quad highs. While I don't care for quad highs, I do care that I have the drl/parking lights. That way when I'm parked at a hilly light, I swap to parking lights to avoid blinding the ppl on the other side.

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Old 05-11-2010, 04:17 PM   #2 (permalink)
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nice supplementing.. lol i know what you mean about the firewall and accessing it from the engine bay its a tight squeeze because thats where i ran my 0 gauge power wire through for my system.
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nice writeup and the pictures help alot to see where to route the wires through/to...question, if i wire it this way, could i turn my foglights on with out having my low beams on??
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nice writeup and the pictures help alot to see where to route the wires through/to...question, if i wire it this way, could i turn my foglights on with out having my low beams on??
No.
To quote badbadtz560

"1) low beam on, switch on = fog lights on
2) low beam off = fog lights off (doesn't matter switch position)
This prevents fogs from being on when u lock up the car."
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No, you wont be able to, if you want to do that, then you need to wire your foglight switch pos to another 12v source, so like a cig lighter or the starter or something else, correct if im wrong guys on the voltage -____-'' i kind of forgot lol
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Wire the red wire with the gray connector which the positive for the switch to the accessory (lighter) plug in the cubby hole under the radio. It will only activate the fog light relay when the accessory or ignition switch is on. Then wire the power (high current) wire to the battery.

Then you will get fogs all of the time, with automatic turn off with the ignition switch in the off position.
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Yup :] what luna said haha
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haha ya what luna said. You can see that white wire in the picture of my engine bay - that's the fog light's positive wire. If you look close, you'll see a red one under it for my HIDs as well.

some more pics here. I have to say the fogs are probably gonna be fairly useless right now b/c I sit pretty low in the car. I had to really sit up to see the lights on the street. I'll probably aim them upwards a big later on and see if it changes. They're blue either b/c I spray painted the upper half blue or b/c they aren't warmed up yet.

I'm sure you guys have seen plenty of pics like this anyway though.




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fog lights are mainly for looks, they may help light up road signs though
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added this to stickie, thanks buddy for the DIY
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well thanx for these pics. they also helped me see your retro output finally. rotation is spot on from what i can see. u just need to prob raise the left one a bit so that both beams are at same height. the lower parts should be at same height so at distance it makes one..../---/---

also both might be low because it looks like u don't have much light on the road.

fogs came out good but u should ask rtagn to help u get some es300 projector fogs in there.

pm me and i'll help u out with boy. great job on the DIY and finally some fx-r output pics on a camry.
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Great DIY man. This will be helpful for me in the future
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oiy... it's disappointing if the fog lights aren't gonna help me at all when it rains. Will the es300s or something else like blazers help me out when driving? I'm about 90% functionality 10% upgrade in looks... if the fog lights don't help me at all then I've just wasted money

pawel: ya I'm definitely gonna raise those fx-rs up some time. It's been trial and error for me so far. I haven't found flat ground w/ 25ft yet so I've just been driving around and raising/lowering as I need. They're fine for atlanta right now since all of our city streets are lit so well u really don't even need headlights. When I drive back to atlanta from augusta (at night hopefully) that's when they'll do their duty.

BTW does anyone know where I can get a real foglight switch? for something less than what I paid for the full kit?
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In reality, once you get hid lows, theres no point in fogs -_________-'
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Just wanted to let everyone know that my picture server will be going down soon (since I graduated)... and I'm a bit busy to transfer the pics to another site =\ sorry guys. If I had the time, I'd put'em on hidp's server - but it's not likely to happen any time soon
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