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

[Sean Douglas]

The fogs still turn off with the ignition.

Sean



> -----Original Message-----
> From: s-car-list-bounces at audifans.com 
> [mailto:s-car-list-bounces at audifans.com] On Behalf Of Jerry Scott
> Sent: Wednesday, February 16, 2005 4:22 PM
> To: s-car-list
> Subject: Re: [s-cars] fog lamps w/o low beams
> 
> 
> 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:
> >
> >You beat me to it!
> >
> >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
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >  
> >
> >>-----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
> >>
> >>
> >>On Tue, Feb 15, 2005 at 09:59:57PM -0500, LL - NY wrote:
> >>    
> >>
> >>>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.
> >>
> >>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.
> >>
> >>Here are two pictures of my workaround:
> >>http://pictureposter.audiworld.com/66084/fog1.> jpg
> >>
> >>    
> >>
> >http://pictureposter.audiworld.com/66084/fog3.jpg
> >
> >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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