Burning Fog light wire
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Burning Fog light wire
Hi can someone help me with a problem? My 02 passenger side fog light wire gets hot and starts to burn when I turn on the fog/driving lights. I did change the bulbs to the Silver Star bulbs a wile back but do not know if that created the problem.
Has anyone experienced this problem and what’s the fix?
Has anyone experienced this problem and what’s the fix?
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From: Van Buren Arkansas
Wounded Warrior Escort '11
If the heat is across the whole wire and not just an end, then you are drawing too much current through it for the wire size. If its just at one end of it, not both, then the crimp on the connection pin is probably bad.
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From: Anthony TX
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St. Jude Donor '08
Ive run high wattage bulbs in my Fogs for quite a while without any issues. When a circuit over heats it indicate one or two issues:
Like was previously stated
a loose or poor connection will cause a circuit to overheat but, it normally damages the area that has the poor connection.
Drawing too much current through the wire that is suppling the current.
I have a ZO6 (they did not come from the factory with fogs) and had to add my own lights and I made my own harness. You can do the same thing. Just trace the wire back to the fuse box in the engine compartment to the relay for the fog lights. Add some heavier gage wire.
I thing that those silver star lamps draw 55 watts where the stock lamps are like 27 watts. (thats a good guess) I would check and see.
BC
Like was previously stated
a loose or poor connection will cause a circuit to overheat but, it normally damages the area that has the poor connection.Drawing too much current through the wire that is suppling the current.
I have a ZO6 (they did not come from the factory with fogs) and had to add my own lights and I made my own harness. You can do the same thing. Just trace the wire back to the fuse box in the engine compartment to the relay for the fog lights. Add some heavier gage wire.
I thing that those silver star lamps draw 55 watts where the stock lamps are like 27 watts. (thats a good guess) I would check and see.
BC
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St. Jude Donor '13
The 893 Silver stars draw 38 watts according to the package. I had no issues with them. After I swapped them out to HIDs I had no start issues because the wire guage was so small. I bought a pre made relay harness from EBay for just under $15. shipped and that solved that problem.
