[urq] RE : urQ fog light switch

[LL - NY]

Now, that's how I have my fogs wired, although the ideal would be to have
the fogs drop (use a N/C relay with the hot coil lead run from the high beam
signal, I believe 85 or 85a from memory) when the high beams are triggered.
There is no reason to ever run fogs when the highbeams are on, they won't
show you anything and they'll just add to the dazzle for oncoming cars.
Besides,
most states in the US have laws limiting the # of lights (not including
markers) lit
on the front of our cars to 4 separate sources.

Now as far as the US requirement of lows+fogs (which I've ignored) what
gives to
the huge #'s of BeeEmmmVays that I saw running around with parking and fogs
only back in the eighties and nineties?

LL - NY

On 4/20/06, Louis-Alain Richard <laraa at sympatico.ca> wrote:
>
> If it's a brown 1983 3 position switch (OFF-ON1-ON2), then yes I know:
>
> - 86N is the power feed, switched either by the ignition, or better, by
> the parking lights (*).
> - 31 is the ground
> - 58a is the front fog lamps, (which are ON at both ON positions)
> - 55s is the rear fog lamp (ON at ON2 only)
> - 75h is the feed for the lighting bulb inside the switch.
>
>
>
> (*): the reason for this is to have the fog lamps acts like real fog
> lamps ! In fog conditions, or snow conditions, fog lamps are useful only
> if the main low-beams are off. Then, the wide and low beam pattern from
> the fog lamps can cut bellow your eye level, and not blind you. In
> addition, you want to be seen from behind, that's why the parking lamps
> are ON each time the fogs are.
>
> In North-America, fog lamps are only cosmetic devices, because NHTSA and
> Transport Canada mandates that low-beams to be ON when fog lamps are ON.
> Totally useless, IMO.
>
> Louis-Alain
> 1983 Quattro
>
>
>
> > -----Message d'origine-----
> >
> > I have an OE urQ fog light switch that I'm putting in
> > the Coupe GT after I decide which lights to get.
> > Anyone know  what each of the numbered 5 pins on the
> > switch are designated for?
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > John
>
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