PhiDeltBee

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Open up fuse box under the hood on the drivers side. Unclip that little box with the fuses on it and slide it up (I've already done so in the first pic). You'll see 3 connectors with wires. You'll tap into the one at the bottom of the picture.











Here's a close-up of the wires to tap together. Solid light green to solid green. You're done. Close everything back up.







And here's what you get!





NOTICE!


The fog lights will ONLY turn off when you turn all lights to off position on the stalk. At this point, the led strips will still stay lit. In other words, anytime you have the lights on, the fogs will be on. Although, you can now turn the brights on while keeping the fogs on.

2ndGF

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Good write up. Thanks

PhiDeltBee

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Well, there seems to be a glitch that I can't figure out. After the car starts and runs for around 3 minutes, the fogs go out and all the controls go back to the same. The fogs will then work as normal, but won't come back on with the drl's only. It does this everytime start and stop the car, so I'm not sure what's causing it. Anyone else who might know a bit about this, please chime in.

lobuxracer

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The BEAN is smarter than your wire.

I looked into this years ago on the IS350. It's not easy to make it work right. Check the 2IS forum, there is a method someone did that works, but it's not very elegant - still not as agricultural as a shorting wire.

PhiDeltBee

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Yeah, didn't really want to install a switch. There was guy who did it this way and it worked, albeit a blown fuse at one point. He didn't have the 2011+ lights, so I'm not sure if that makes a difference.