EG/EJ FOGLIGHTS AREN'T WORKING....

[a94civicex]

Okay so I am not sure if this will be a repost or not & dont care because my foglights arent coming on when I hit the toggle switch & it is pissing me off.... Ive checked everything like unhooked power/grounds and nothing is unhooked, i then checked the fuse and it wasnt blown....

Ive only had them on my car & used them for about a month.... It was raining when they went out but did'nt know if water could get to the bulbs & blow them out or not....

Ive almost just gave up on trying to figure out why they arent coming on.... But im giving it a shot for some help if anyone has had this happen & im looking for any/all advice on what to do to get them working again....

[-EnVus-]

Are they from Ebay ?
Some times the cheaper lights get a little wet and burn the wires up.
I had one do it once with mine. Had to open the fog light housing and saw the burnt wire.

[a94civicex]

ahhh damnit, they are from K2motor.com..... I hope that will not be the case when i pull them off my front bumper.... were you able to fix the burnt wire?

[-EnVus-]

ahhh damnit, they are from K2motor.com..... I hope that will not be the case when i pull them off my front bumper.... were you able to fix the burnt wire?

Yeah it was the small ground wire inside mine that was burnt to a crisp. Then i had to replace a wire going to the housing. It was pretty easy....
Mine also happen on a day it was raining just FYI

[a94civicex]

okay..... I hope thats not what happend to mine.... if not what else could it be besides the bulbs being burnt out?

[-EnVus-]

okay..... I hope thats not what happend to mine.... if not what else could it be besides the bulbs being burnt out?

If the bulbs went out at the same time you have a short issue

[81911SC]

If the bulbs went out at the same time you have a short issue

You didn't mention high resistance.
No short to ground with no fuse blown
No short to power with them not working at all.

[a94civicex]

hmmmm dont know how I would have a short issue! everything is grounded out & powered up right! I will have to check it out but havent seen any ground issues or power issues anywhere....

[95droppedhatch]

check and seee if you have power going to the relay and see if you have power coming out the relay. also check the switch the ebay once tend to burn up the switchs but i would check the relay

[a94civicex]

okay, like i said before the fuse is fine. wouldnt it pop a fuse though before the relay went out?

[81911SC]

Why would it? Fuses will only blow if there is too high of amps running through them. Find another fuse in your car that's identical to that one and switch them and try it. (If you don't have to have it to test)

[Scotsman]

moved to proper section , it may generate more help , ( you are slippin Gene , lol )

[81911SC]

Shit, where was it? Lol

[a94civicex]

Okay, so what I did last night is unhooked the male/female connector that I had running through my firewall heading to provide power for my switch.... I unhooked them and got the power and hooked it up to my + battery terminal, meanwhile already having the main power line plugged up to the starter power! And it was grounded on the chasis, behind my front bumper.... After hooking the other power to my battery terminal I got nothing, no light at all.... I also didn't hear the relay clicking like it did when I first hooked evrything up, so my guess is that the relay went bad....

What do y'all think?

[Scotsman]

Shit, where was it? Lol

honda section

[a94civicex]

Yeah I posted this thread in the Honda section because I figured it would have been the proper place to start the thread since it's a Honda issue! But it was moved here! Thanks to the "TheDrunkScotsman"....

So I need all the help I can get with this problem because before I waste more money on another set and have it happen all over again, I'd like to figure out how to fix this problem....

[95droppedhatch]

check and seee if you have power going to the relay and see if you have power coming out the relay. also check the switch the ebay once tend to burn up the switchs but i would check the relay

i said that already hope it works i would just go to the auto parts store and buy another one cant be to expesive

[Scotsman]

Yeah I posted this thread in the Honda section because I figured it would have been the proper place to start the thread since it's a Honda issue! But it was moved here! Thanks to the "TheDrunkScotsman"....

So I need all the help I can get with this problem because before I waste more money on another set and have it happen all over again, I'd like to figure out how to fix this problem....

no thanks needed , you'll get more traffic here , wiring is wiring ( make shouldnt matter)

[81911SC]

I just fucking wish you would respond to me. I kinda know what I'm talking about here. Or don't and buy the whole damn thing.

[a94civicex]

im trying to get up ideas instead of doing 1 thing and not finding it.... i may buy a relay tomorrow....

[81911SC]

Have you unplugged the bulbs, attach a KNOWN GOOD GROUND and checked voltage where the bulb goes in?

[a94civicex]

nope, they are still in my bumper.... they are hooked up and grounded right because they worked fine for like a month then just stopped after it rained....

[81911SC]

Do it. It's only a couple of minutes.

[a94civicex]

i will do it tomorrow when i have day light!

[81911SC]

Ok, post what you find with all these tests.

[a94civicex]

i will

[Eg4LiFe]

check bulbs

[a94civicex]

I'm going too.... That's what I'm hoping it is....

[a94civicex]

RELAY Switch is burnt up! Anyone know where to pick one up? Local auto parts stores dont carry them and cant get them! or is there any other way to wire them back up?

[Eg4LiFe]

RELAY Switch is burnt up! Anyone know where to pick one up? Local auto parts stores dont carry them and cant get them! or is there any other way to wire them back up?

meaning that black block thing?

[a94civicex]

yes.... meaning that black block thing with 4 copper feeds inside....

has anyone ever just wired the foglights up to their corner lights?

[95droppedhatch]

i have wired them up to my corner lights but you might want to look to see if one of the relays in your fuse box under the hood is the same cause i think it is might be wrong but i think they are the same

[a94civicex]

Like a 12v relay in my fuse panel in engine bay....

[95droppedhatch]

yup check it out it may be the same

[a94civicex]

Well the 12v fuses under the hood did line up but I'm still not gettig any light.... I'm just going to remove my front bumper & check the bulbs.... If the bulbs are good I'm going to just wire the fogs up to my corner lights & go from there, instead of trying to find the relay & just run my fuse off of it....

[a94civicex]

Also what was the eaiest way to wire the foglights up to your corners? I don't want to rig it up that way but that's what it's coming to because trying to find that relay for my kit is hard....

[95droppedhatch]

when i wired my fogs to the corner i just found the power for the running lights not the blinkers you can use a text light to find this or a wiring diagram and you can either ground it to the ground on the corner light bulb or just run it to a ground point on your chassis but run each fog to separate corners dont run it to one corner light

[Theycall_Metue]

wire it up to your normal beam light, corner light wont be powerful enough to light up the fogs

[a94civicex]

Okay.... If my bulbs aren't blown then I'm going to just run them that way.... If the bobs are blown do you know if they are H3 size bulb....?

[95droppedhatch]

wire it up to your normal beam light, corner light wont be powerful enough to light up the fogs

wrong the corners are powerful enough they are both 12v sources no different voltages at the plug