1998 Durango fog light/high-beam issue revisited

From : chris behrens

Q: greetings! im writing because the fixes posted on dodgeram.com and alt.dodge.trucks didnt work on my 1998 durango. there are two spots for fog light relays but only #1 is filled with a relay. the second seems to be a spare not even having the connectors inside the blade slots. ive tried jumping pins 3 & 5 and the fog lights stay on regardless of headlight or foglight switch position not cool for the battery and i tried jumping terminal #30 to 87a pins 3 & 4 as suggested with no results fog lights still cut out when high-beams came on. im not an electrician so i may be slow on the uptake. heres what the relay says... pin terminal 1 85 2 86 3 30 4 87a nc 5 87 no the part number below it if itll help is 0248 980461a any help you can offer in idiot/layman terms would be greatly appreciated... this may sound really stupid but once the jumper is in place do you put the relay back in -- chris http//www.choxnpinz.com remove caps from e-mail address to reply .

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From : chris behrens

chris@spamkillerchoxnpinz.com says... greetings! im writing because the fixes posted on dodgeram.com and alt.dodge.trucks didnt work on my 1998 durango. there are two spots for fog light relays but only #1 is filled with a relay. the second seems to be a spare not even having the connectors inside the blade slots. ive tried jumping pins 3 & 5 and the fog lights stay on regardless of headlight or foglight switch position not cool for the battery and i tried jumping terminal #30 to 87a pins 3 & 4 as suggested with no results fog lights still cut out when high-beams came on. im not an electrician so i may be slow on the uptake. heres what the relay says... pin terminal 1 85 2 86 3 30 4 87a nc 5 87 no the part number below it if itll help is 0248 980461a any help you can offer in idiot/layman terms would be greatly appreciated... this may sound really stupid but once the jumper is in place do you put the relay back in for all the posts i guess im alone here... -- chris http//www.choxnpinz.com remove caps from e-mail address to reply .

From : cbhvac stephen

cloudster@iname.com says... my fog light relay has #86 connected to the parking/running light wire. thank you for the reply. ill give it a shot... -- chris http//www.choxnpinz.com remove caps from e-mail address to reply and keep in mind that depending on your state you might find yourself on the wrong end of a state trooper. most areas its illegal to drive with the fog/aux lights on and high beams. .

From : miles

*cbhvac* wrote and keep in mind that depending on your state you might find yourself on the wrong end of a state trooper. most areas its illegal to drive with the fog/aux lights on and high beams. here in az the law just says to lower to low beam for oncoming traffic. i like fogs and high beams mostly when offroading or away from city areas on a dark mountain road etc. .

From : terra

chris behrens wrote chris@spamkillerchoxnpinz.com says... greetings! im writing because the fixes posted on dodgeram.com and alt.dodge.trucks didnt work on my 1998 durango. there are two spots for fog light relays but only #1 is filled with a relay. the second seems to be a spare not even having the connectors inside the blade slots. ive tried jumping pins 3 & 5 and the fog lights stay on regardless of headlight or foglight switch position not cool for the battery look at the upgraded headlamp circuit diagram at http//www.danielsternlighting.com/tech/relays/relays.html and you can see why they stay on. you bypassed the relay function and wired the lights always on. and i tried jumping terminal #30 to 87a pins 3 & 4 as suggested with no results fog lights still cut out when high-beams came on. im not an electrician so i may be slow on the uptake. heres what the relay says... pin terminal 1 85 2 86 3 30 4 87a nc 5 87 no the part number below it if itll help is 0248 980461a any help you can offer in idiot/layman terms would be greatly appreciated... this may sound really stupid but once the jumper is in place do you put the relay back in for all the posts i guess im alone here... my fog light relay has #86 connected to the parking/running light wire. theyll operate with high beams low beams or no headlights on. when i turn the headlight switch all the way off 2 clicks the fog lights go off too. i like this arrangement. what do you want your fog lights to do maybe an email to daniel stern will get you somewhere. http//www.danielsternlighting.com/about/about.html .

From : chris behrens

cloudster@iname.com says... my fog light relay has #86 connected to the parking/running light wire. thank you for the reply. ill give it a shot... -- chris http//www.choxnpinz.com remove caps from e-mail address to reply .