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Old 11-18-2006, 11:37 AM   #1
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I just purchased a 97 ti recently, and much as i like it, i wish it had foglights. It was originally bought without and still has the factory blanks in place. Can someone tell me how easy/hard it would be to wire the fogs if i got the original fog/headlight switch? thanks in advance.
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Old 11-18-2006, 12:45 PM   #2
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apparently it takes at least 4 hours, up to 10.
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Old 11-18-2006, 03:32 PM   #3
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If the car isnt wired for fogs, you can buy a kit off ebay for like 20 bucks that comes with the wiring, fuse, and switch. Only takes an hour if you know what youre doing. I wired mine up in about 1.5 hours because i installed HID's in them as well. Very easy thing to do.
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There are two kits, one is for factory original install. Takes most of a day to install. Then there is a add-on wireing setup thats basically a generic kit and does not come with the switch that goes right of the instrument cluster, its switch goes in the switch bank below the dash.

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Sounds like what i want; its just an on off switch though right? So it would be possible to wire in the factory switch, I hope. I really don't like extraneous stuff like that hanging off my dash.

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Old 11-19-2006, 08:36 PM   #6
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Yeah, and if you attempted to do the install, you would need to run the wires through the firewall, JUST LIKE I AM TRYING TO DO RIGHT NOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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There are two kits, one is for factory original install. Takes most of a day to install. Then there is a add-on wireing setup thats basically a generic kit and does not come with the switch that goes right of the instrument cluster, its switch goes in the switch bank below the dash.

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Lololol. That made me laugh :P Good luck to both of yas!
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