I just came up with some wiring ideas for my ecodes I've ordered
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Keeper of the Cash
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From: Iowa
I just came up with some wiring ideas for my ecodes I've ordered
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Since I'm losing my fog lights that doubled as DRLs, I came up with some wiring changes to my HID ecodes.
Instead of having my city lights come on with the parking lights, why not rewire then to the high beam circuit and control them with the headlight stalk and then wiring my high beams to the fog light circuit? Since the high beams put no more load on it than the fogs, no worries there.
My reasoning behind this is HIDs and the city lights are hard if not impossible to see during the daytime. However, since the high beams are still halogen, have a wider beam pattern, they are much more visible in daylight.
Yes, I understand the idea behind city lights and all and that's great, BUT why would I <b>not</b> want to show off my ecodes whenever possible? As far as I'm aware, I'm the only one with ecodes on all the A4s I've seen in the area. There's a B6 with HIDs lacking the yellow reflector, but I don't recall if they had robot eyes or not.
Since I'm losing my fog lights that doubled as DRLs, I came up with some wiring changes to my HID ecodes.
Instead of having my city lights come on with the parking lights, why not rewire then to the high beam circuit and control them with the headlight stalk and then wiring my high beams to the fog light circuit? Since the high beams put no more load on it than the fogs, no worries there.
My reasoning behind this is HIDs and the city lights are hard if not impossible to see during the daytime. However, since the high beams are still halogen, have a wider beam pattern, they are much more visible in daylight.
Yes, I understand the idea behind city lights and all and that's great, BUT why would I <b>not</b> want to show off my ecodes whenever possible? As far as I'm aware, I'm the only one with ecodes on all the A4s I've seen in the area. There's a B6 with HIDs lacking the yellow reflector, but I don't recall if they had robot eyes or not.
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He's assuming you dont have the independent fog light mod (which I dont know if you have or not)
When you want to have your city lights on you'd have the high beam stalk pushed forward, sending current to the thing near the glove cpt that tells the fogs to turn off, which would actually end up turning your high beams off any time you wanted your city lights to be on. The point is moot if you have your current fogs set up to be independent of other lights.
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Keeper of the Cash
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From: Iowa
My fogs are independant (hence their use as DRLs) AND I don't have that rely
box behind the glove box seeing as I have a '97.
That's why I couldn't understand JAFO and his otherwise valid point.
That's why I couldn't understand JAFO and his otherwise valid point.
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