hah not creepin on anyone, just love the way my 8 looks in pictures with the parkings

 

Easy job well worth it. Took 5 mins

 

Awesome, been wanting to do this since my last car. Went with Maniac's method and finished about 10 minutes ago, took a little over an hour to do thanks to poorly timed distractions from my neighbors, dogs, and phone. And of course this being my first time soldering anything I burned my thumb, but it was totally worth it .

edit: please excuse the poor cell phone night shot, no idea where my camera is.

 

I chose to perform the Omicron version for maximum flexibility and it worked perfectly. The clear pictures give confidence but it's still a bit scary when you're about to cut that first wire though.

 

im so glad i can bypass my aftermarket HID so i can have my fog lights on by it self :D

 

same thing happened to me.
its good to see if all doors are shut!

 

Even seen a Dodge SX2.0 (new name for the Neon)? They have their fog lights as DRL here in Canada!!

Im not sure if its a "stock only or illegal" thing, but whatever.

 

Yeah....Anyone In Elk Grove/ Sacramento, CA that wants to help out a fellow member? lol Kinda scared doing it

 

if you haven't done it yet it's pretty easy.

Also figured I'd update my rewire pic

 

I went to do this with my 09. Seems I have the same wire colors, same fuse box and everything but it would not work. I cut the brown wire and tried the ACC method first, but the fogs only came on when the headlights still.

Then I tried MMs method and tried the tail light relay and fuse. neither worked. Any reason why it would not work on an 09? Like I said, seems like I have the same fuse box and wiring. Only thing I can think of is it might not be the brown wire on mine, but. I used the first wire on the right side of the relay, out of the four available.

The wire was a different gauge than the ACC wire so maybe that indicates a change.

 

Just did the MM way. Loving it but makes me want to consider LED parking lights and HID fogs now. One mod leads to more temptations

 

someone should consolidate these different approaches into a single thread. Very confusing to find the information. I need to try this though. I hate that you can't have the fogs on unless the lights are on.

 

This one works too https://www.rx8club.com/series-i-interior-audio-electronics-24/fog-light-re-wire-re-visited-173919/

 

I have an 09 also. Tried omnicron's method to a tee (brown wire cut, connected to white with red stripe ACC wire with tap in) and it didn't work. The lights functioned like I didn't do anything at all. I rewired back to original. Any successful intalls out there on S2 models?

 

done. it took me under 10 mins, but i was being very cautious. thanks guys!!!!

 

thread bump i havent gone through the whole thread but i was wondering if someone could figure out how to wire em to be on when you unlock the car so i guess like wire em to the interior lights AS WELL AS to the acc or sth if thats possible

 

This is it pretty simply put after reading this thread for years...

http://www.rx8blog.com/rewiring-the-rx8-fog-lights/


It worked like a champ for me....

If you want a different signal source you will havce to find one that fits your needs...

The Brown wire is like a remote wire on an amp for your subs...

 

I finally did this and it took 10 minutes, thanks a lot for the instructions.

 

Great DIY, hook up with my new Day time running Super bright LED lights on my autoexe bumper.

 

Thanks alot to Alterego667 for helping me rewire my fogs!!

 

ddtran46
Anytime man...
Good luck with all your mods and stuff that you want to do in the future...

 

need help.

I tried to do this, and I think I really fucked something out (shorted out something). The only electric that works in my car are the lights. No radio or starter (chimes and all interior lights still work). Checked starter fuse and it is okay. Any ideas?

Edit: Didn't check the 15a fuse. It was blown. Now all the interior jazz works again but still no starter.

Edit2: Figured it out. Put the fuse for the engine in the wrong spot. Stupid me.

 

Okay, so I'm hoping that some of you who are more talented than I am can help me figure this out.

Basically, I attempted to do this mod all day today. Every time I would try and test the fog lights my ignition fuse would blow out. I made extra sure both sides were taped with tons of electrical tape, and I triple checked I had spliced the right wires. After the third blown ignition fuse, I restored everything to normal and everything works fine, with the exception of my fogs because I have the wire detached and taped (I bought some taps in case I have to put it back together). Any ideas what I could be doing wrong? I know this is useless without pics, but I didn't have time to take any when I had the mod installed. because I needed to get my windows up before the thunderstorm rolled in. I used the vampire clip method.

Thanks guys

EDIT: I think I figured it out. I cut the right wire, and was splicing to the right wire, but I think I was splicing in the wrong end of the fog wire (the one from the harness) into the ACC wire. This would probably explain all of the blown fuses, because although i don't know what that mistake would do, it probably wouldn't do anything nice to the fuse box. Lesson learned, always double check. My stupidity knows no bounds.

Edit2: Fixed it this morning first thing, mod works great, thanks for the great DIY (Even if I did a **** poor job at following it)

 

anyone going to post a diy with pictures

 

Check the first 6 pages as well as http://koczarski.com/RX8/Mods/FogLight/ReWire.htm