Hey guys,

Every time I turn on my headlights, I have to turn on my fog lights as well. This is my first Lancer Ralliart but when I was driving my last car the fog lights automatically turned on. So, I was just wondering if there is anything I can do so they will turn on when I turn on my headlights. If not, its only a minor inconvenience and will soon become a habit.

 

um.. you'll get into habit.

 

it's a habit you'll form. i don't like running fog lights unless it's absolutely necessary to just preserve bulb life.

 

man, i have that habit...mainly because i have projectors so it looks good, but i even did it before i got em, soooo....yeah...its a habit

 

Alright thats cool, I'm already making a habit of it. Just thought I would see if it was possible at all.

 

i don't even realize i turn them on now. annoying at first but give it a month and you wont even notice.

 

yeah i just got my ralliart and im starting to turn them on without noticing!

 

lol! i do the same thing, one of my fog lights burnt out though and the dealership wants to charge 63 to replace one bulb!! any ideas?

 

damn!, i would try to fix it myself, cant be that hard!

 

yeah, i'm sure I could do it, just need the right bulb!

 

^ a rock hit my left fog light and shattered the glass about 2 months after i got the car.. grrrr... still works tho!

 

Any H3 would work... Be careful though there are 3 screws holding the sealing plate onto the fog light housing and they are both easy to loose and strip out. Make sure you use the right size phillips or you WILL strip the (X) out. Helps to jack up the car, what i do is just pull up onto a sidewalk and have the front end hang over the curb and just swap both out that way. I have luminics 3000K H3's in there now. I run them everytime my headlights are on and have yet to burn out in 3 years.... [knock on wood] I have run Silverstars, and a couple of knockoff brand ones that just burn out and the silverstars only last me like a year so I swapped over to some yellows for the winter and just never took em' out.

Here's my car as it sits now>
9007 Silverstar Ultra's (found them for 20$ so i bought like 3 sets..)
H3 3000K Luminics (I think that's what they're called)

 

+1 on stripping out the X on the cover screws. I just took out the entire fog light and replaced the bulb sitting at my dining table. Easy to uninstall/reinstall. Easy to fix. Just take your time.

 

The fog light switch looks like a momentary one so the lamps are probably controlled by the ECU. You'd either have to rig something to send a pulse to the ECU to turn them on or rig a relay at the fuse box so they're on when your lights are on. The disadvantage of the second method would be that you'd lose the ability to turn them off while your headlights are on.

 

hey i just wanted to ask everyone what they prefer or what color bulbs you guys run on your foglights? yellow or regular?
I was thinking of changing my bulbs to yellow cuz my friends is300 has yellow ones and they look pretty tight!