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FrankK
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Aug 06, 2016

2004 Holiday Rambler - Fog light issue

We live in VA and have owned our 04 Scepter for several years. This year, it failed VA safety inspection because according to the inspector (and VA inspection manual), the fog lights must burn through the tail light circuit. Inspector advised that VA state police (who are responsible for inspection stations) are cracking down on this issue for some reason.

In its present state, the fog lights can be turned on without the headlights or parking lights being turned on, but the tail lights do not turn on unless the headlight switch is in parking lights or headlights.

The part that works correctly is the case whereby if headlights are on and the high beam switch is on, the fog lights must be off. So the fog lights must already be wired through the high beam circuit.

What I need is to change the wiring such that if the headlight switch is off and the fog light switch is on, both the fog lights and the tail lights come on.

Initial response from Holiday Rambler was that I should buy a DRL kit from them. However, I have never seen DRLs that also light the tail lights, so I think the DRL kit will not solve the problem.

If you have encountered this problem and solved it, I'd like to know how you did it.

Thanks!
Frank
  • On my Monaco the fog lights, on a separate switch, can be turned on when the headlights are turned on to the low position. When the headlights are switched to high beams, the fog lights go off, no matter what position the fog light switch is in.
  • I would think you could get a couple Diodes like used for TOADS , these for ex. Diodes andrun either a wire from the Foglight hot wire to teh tailight wire or put in a relay to send power to your tail lights when the fog lights are turned on. Would be simple