Technical Topics specific to the Hatchback body - NOT where you post pics/build specs of your car.
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By hatchie
#110834 wait a minute you cant keep your inner brake lights if you have the edm fog?

if thats the case then thats ghey!!!!!


i thought you could have both cuz i knew holly did the inner brake light crap and then i see her with the fog light so i was like kewl you can have both
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By Vti93T
#110836 The USDM tail lights light up all the way across when the lights are on. If I'm correct the EDM tail lights only light up on the outside lights. The fog light will just make the light on the drivers side brighter..you can have both fog light and the brake light still. Just gotta do some wiring
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By hatchie
#110837 do i even need the edm light cuz i already did the inner brake lights or do the edm ones have an extra bulb for the fog


and if i can just keep my usdm ones then what would i wire up and how?
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By Civic_HatchSI
#110861 Tim do you always have to answer all my shit lol


Anyways either way the fog light is basically the same as a stock USDM tail light. Its just a different reflection inside from what I can see. I seen ppl use a stock tail light and make it into a fog but im not sure how they did it. I had a hard time wiring it up at first for mine but Niels "ee8" on the forum gave me a diagram that helped me

This is how I did it anyway.

You basically wire it to the park lights its a red and white wire under the dash use the wires from your switch. Then there is two wires that come from the switch that go to ground and two more wires that run to your dimmer switch. From the relay that you will need to install, the red and white wire that your adding is going to run into the same park light wire. From the rear fog you run it into the relay, one of the wires from the relay is a ground.

Its kinda hard to explain but its pretty simple once its all said an done.


Couple pistures from jdmland to show you how it looks on and off and the back side of the light.

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Here is a picture of mine, you can see the difference in the inner tail. It has a separate reflector

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By Gorveatt
#110863 I only answered what i knew :P
By Gunni
#110942 i have a box full of these lights :roll:
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By hatchie
#110969 ok first off holly you have the jdm lights right cuz you have no reflectors except that one


and other question is.... you still have the inner brake lights dont you?

i want to be able to keep both! and if thy are the same housings then i will prolly just use my stock tails then!

i mean why buy parts that arent needed
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By hatchie
#110970 oh and do you possibly still have the diagram?
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By Carfanatic
#110971
hatchie wrote:ok first off holly you have the jdm lights right cuz you have no reflectors except that one


and other question is.... you still have the inner brake lights dont you?

i want to be able to keep both! and if thy are the same housings then i will prolly just use my stock tails then!

i mean why buy parts that arent needed


your inner lights will go away, you will get only on the left side the fog, and on the right side, you can not have a bulb.

so when you place EDM/JDM tails, you only use the outer lights ;)
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By Gorveatt
#111012
hatchie wrote:ok first off holly you have the jdm lights right cuz you have no reflectors except that one


and other question is.... you still have the inner brake lights dont you?

i want to be able to keep both! and if thy are the same housings then i will prolly just use my stock tails then!

i mean why buy parts that arent needed


Um... no her tail lights are stock other that that inner one.
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By hatchie
#111014 they looked like they didnt have the reflectors so that why i thought they were the jdm ones

my bad
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By ee8
#111027
hatchie wrote:they looked like they didnt have the reflectors so that why i thought they were the jdm ones

my bad


you only need the rear outer left unit....
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By hatchie
#111030 o wait your who she said gave her the wiring info or w.e


you still have it by any chance?
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By ee8
#111042
hatchie wrote:o wait your who she said gave her the wiring info or w.e


you still have it by any chance?


yeah i made some pics from the workshop manual:

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By hatchie
#111057 my neck hurts lol j.k i bet if i read this enough i'll get it .... wish holly was on so i know how she kept


quad brake lights
running quad lights


and still had the fog :?