new fog lights are not working.

[tendadus]

So here is the problem. when i bought my pathy the fog light lenses were cracked and busted soon after. so i decided to replace them when the lights stopped working. i replaced the lights and flicked the switch. nothing happened. so i started my research and came across too simple solutions. the relay or the fuse.

 

the fuse was fine, the relay was corroded. the relay is a bosch 0 332 019 150 relay. so i took a trip to oreillys and they told me the bwd R681 was a comparable relay that would work. however i noticed the diagrams on the sides were different. but i tried it anyway and it worked. sort of . the passenger side fog came on. but only that one. the led on the switch wasn't on and the driver side was dead to the world.

 

so went through some basic trouble shooting. using the multi meter i found out that 30 on the relay was hot. also that 87 and 87 were the driver and passenger feeds.by connecting the 87's directly to the positive battery terminal i could tell the the wiring to the lights was good because both would light up. so now the problem was the switch.

 

somewhere along the line i messed with the wires connecting to the switch. (or it was my dad) regardless i have a 4 pin off on fog light switch that is mounted in the center console and connects to 3 wires. yellow green and purple and it has a red led that turns on when the fogs are suppose to be on. however the switch is not doing anything. from tracing the wires green and yellow come from the relay. i have no idea where purple comes from.

 

long story short i need to know how to reconnect the switch to the 3 wires and whether or not the relay i bought will work or do i need to by an exact match from bosch.

 

i can post pictures if anyone thinks they will help

[RF600]

I replaced one of my fogs with an aftermarket one. Where it plugs into the harness, it doesn't make really good contact. Have you messed with the plug to see if the light will come on?

[tendadus]

found out that the relay i bought wouldn't work. the 87 pins weren't connected on the diagram and therefore would only turn one fog on at a time if the system was working. bought a JD141E2 relay from napa and now both lights are currently off. which i think was correct. (logic being that they would turn on when the switch is flicked)

 

also did some wire tracing and found that the green runs to the relay and hooks up with the single green wire from the lights and both wires gnd into the firewall. the yellow wire also goes to the relay but hooks into its own terminal. the purple wire never gets to the relay but stops short on what i think is a hood switch. it has a weird plastic connector right before it hooks to the switch. the switch is only connected to the firewall. pulling the connection apart and testing both sides with my multi (red) and the negative battery terminal (black) i get 13.23 volts from the connection side leading to the battery. that is the farthest i've gotten with trying to figure out this mess.

[tendadus]

I replaced one of my fogs with an aftermarket one. Where it plugs into the harness, it doesn't make really good contact. Have you messed with the plug to see if the light will come on?

i used a piece of wire and jump from the pos battery terminal to the each 87 on the relay. both lights lit up when i did this. so the wires and connections to the lights seem fine.

 

thanks for your help

[Slartibartfast]

Somebody wired it up to the hood pin?