[s-cars] fog lamps w/o low beams

[Jerry Scott]

Does this allow the fog lights to still turn off with the ignition key 
or do you manually have to turn off the fogs each time to avoid battery 
discharge?
Jerry

Sean Douglas wrote:

>Kevin:
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>You beat me to it!
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>I checked Bentley and it's the fog light relay J5 located in the Aux
>relay panel under the hood in position #4. As your picture shows, all
>that is needed is a short jumper with a male spade connector on each end
>and jump the terminals between #30 and #87. This completes the circuit
>to allow the fog lights to be on without the headlights on.
>
>Sean
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>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: s-car-list-bounces at audifans.com 
>>[mailto:s-car-list-bounces at audifans.com] On Behalf Of Kevin Day
>>Sent: Tuesday, February 15, 2005 7:57 PM
>>To: LL - NY
>>Cc: s-car-list at audifans.com
>>Subject: Re: [s-cars] fog lamps w/o low beams
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>>On Tue, Feb 15, 2005 at 09:59:57PM -0500, LL - NY wrote:
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>>>Still, I'm hoping to figure out
>>>the fog trigger pin on the relay and wire it to ignition switched
>>>+12V. The Bentley CD hasn't helped me here, as it seems to
>>>just send all of the non-grounded pins to the "Headlight Controller"
>>>blackbox. Great. Whatever happened to good old fashion relay logic?
>>>      
>>>
>>Relay logic is alive and well in your Audi.
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>>To get the fogs to work without the low beams being on, all
>>I did was bypass the fog light relay which is engaged when 
>>the low beams (but not the high beams) are on.
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>>Here are two pictures of my workaround: 
>>http://pictureposter.audiworld.com/66084/fog1.> jpg
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>http://pictureposter.audiworld.com/66084/fog3.jpg
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>It is 
>also relatively easy to make the rear fog work independently of the
>front fog.  In that case it was a matter of putting a thin piece of
>insulating plastic between two contacts inside the rear fog switch.  I
>can dig up the relevant info on the rear fog if anyone is interested. 
>
>-Kevin
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