adding fog lights to 2001 v6

carbuff · Aug 13, 2019

Id like to add fog lights to my 2001 v6. Adding the physical lights to the bumper seems easy enough. When I did this to my 98, all the wiring was already in place. All I did was add the fuse, switch, and lights. All the wiring was already there and just needed to be plugged in. I know that the switch wiring already exists and is plugged into a dummy switch in the console. Will the outside wiring be in place also on a 2001? If not, where does the switch wiring leave off? Will I have to install a generic harness and wire it into the under hood fuse box somehow? Im sure someone has done this and knows whats what..

lutter94 · Aug 13, 2019

You've done it before? Crawl under and look! You know what to look for apparently lol.

carbuff · Aug 13, 2019

I actually didnt expect any of the wiring to be there, as I read that the new edge did not come pre wired. I asked because when I took the center dash bezel off I was suprised to find the wiring for the switch. I just got the car and havent had a chance to get it up in the air a bit to check it out. Just asking what others have found.

carbuff · Apr 12, 2020

Ok,so Im back on this. There is no harness for the lights. Not a problem as I can just wire up a generic harness with its own relay and fuse. I just need to trigger the relay with a 12v+ from the interior switch. The interior harness is there and the switch has all the proper power going to it. It outputs a 12v signal via a white-black wire that is supposed to go into the under hood fuse box to energize the stock relay. Where the relay should be I expected to find the white-black wire in one of the slots of the socket. Well, all the slots are blank, for the main relay and the cutoff relay too. No sign of the white-black wire at the box. Im not looking to cut into the harness to search for it. Does anyone know where it ends? Maybe at the bulkhead connector? I was hoping to not have to run my own wire from the interior to the outside box. Also I dont want to wire it into the parking lights. Ive done that on other cars but dont want it on this one. Any ideas?

carbuff · Apr 13, 2020

So, after coming up empty for days, I stumbled across this.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Zy8UzPAQipxx-lPkPg2raA88gVTduoLd/view

It basically tells me that I will have to run my own wire from the relay in the new harness to the white-black wire in the stock switch pigtail. Kinda,what I thought, I was just hoping that the white-black wire was already somewhere in the engine bay, but I guess I will have to run my own wire. That file is a great guide for anyone looking to install a stock type setup for fog lights in their v6 new edge. Sn95 installs are much easier as the wiring is already there. I hope this helps someone else.