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Or pop it out but in teh B series they came carbon fiber, looks sick
 
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05's dont have the headlight switch/fog light switch it is the newer rangers like 06 and up
 
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Does anyone have a clue to what color wire goes up front for the parking lights so I can tap into that?
 
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My 04 has it
 
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Originally Posted by Ford04Ranger4.0
My 04 has it
You turn your foglights on by pulling out on the headlight switch?
 
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Originally Posted by cghstrojan08
Does anyone have a clue to what color wire goes up front for the parking lights so I can tap into that?
Brown
 
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Ok, thanks man. I hope by the end of the night I got this thing working.
 
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Originally Posted by STL
You turn your foglights on by pulling out on the headlight switch?
Its 07+
 
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I know he cant have it on his 04 my 05 doesnt even have that why would they switch it then switch it again.

O wait it is ford so it's possible
 
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They didn't, my 04 is the bezel pushbutton.
 
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2006 Ford Ranger foglight switch radio bezel


2007 Ford Ranger No foglight switch

2007 Ford Ranger headlight/foglight switch
 
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Yeah, thats what I said lol
 
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No I thought you where talking about the push button
 
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Oh ya! All done and it works. Just need to get one new bulb tomorrow and I am good.
 
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Nice job! Did you end up wiring it to the bezel switch or just a toggle?
 
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I ended up putting in a toggle switch that has a little led in it for now on my current bezel but it looks good. I am still gonna look at the junkyard for what I want to make it look more stock. All in all, it was real easy just time consuming.

Here is the switch I put in. The other ones they had looked like crap and I wanted one that would light up when on.
http://www.radioshack.com/product/in...ductId=3097457
 
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Ah nice, I have 5 of these waiting to be installed somewhere



Finding the bezel with the switch in it shouldn't be hard. If its missing the switch I have an extra here with a pigtail that I'll send you for like 5 bucks.
 
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Ok I am trying to wire up my new factory fog light switch. The problem I am running into now is that when you turn the factory switch on, it sends a negative signal out. How can I wire the relay to send a positive current to the fog light with a negative signal?
 
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Looks like this is what I am going to have to do.
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Wire 3 becomes negative when you push the button in.

Wire 6 is then ran to the positive output side of the relay. Looks like I get to run another wire.
 
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There's a better diagram on here somewhere... I've been looking for it for about 2 weeks now.
 
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Ok, I finally got the switch to work. The problem now is that the power is always hot so if I have the truck off the fogs can be on by just pushing the switch in. I am gonna make the 12 volt power on the relay get power from the parking lights when i turn them on. Should fix the problem. Gonna do it tomorrow though. It is 12 here and I have work at 8. I know have to run two more wires to get everything working right.
 
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