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  1. 24th January 2013, 01:58 PM #1
    davesta
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    Changing driving lights to work on low beam

    Hey, i've recently removed the alloy bullbar on my 88 Classic and installed the factory bumper with spoiler and driving lights. I connected the driving lights to the original wiring which was still in place. I am running low wattage globes in the driving lights and would like to be able to switch them on with the park lights or low beams (at the moment they only work on high beams). I know in theory they are only supposed to be used on high, but I am wanting to use them more often and with the lower wattage globes I won't be blinding anyone. Does anyone have an idea of the easiest way to do this? I know I could run a new wire to the relay, but I'm pretty ordinary at electrical stuff, I was hoping I could swap some wires over or something like that. I did see mentioned elsewhere that some wires could be swapped in the back of the driving light switch, but there doesn't appear to be extra wires behind my switch. I also saw that you can swap some wires in the fusebox to make the driving lights work on park/low. Does anyone know anything about this?
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  2. 24th January 2013, 02:11 PM #2
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    I think you may be treading on thin ice. Driving lamps must be connected only to the high beam.

    That you see many motorists driving around with their fog lamps illuminated every night is actually an offence unless you are actually in a fog.

    If you have one of the Phase II Range Rover classics (with the tacho in the binacle) you can modify the fog lamp feed to work on both low and high beam, by removing the fog lamp lead from its connection to the high beam harness just before the fuse box near the passenger's knee.

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  3. 24th January 2013, 02:51 PM #3
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    If it is the same as my 92 model, there should be a second set of wires loose behind the switch complete with plug.
    If you swap over the plug, you get fog lights, ie the spoiler lights turn on with low beam as some markets have fog lights, and really in that position they should be fog lights.

    That's the theory anyway, I have never tried it.
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  4. 24th January 2013, 03:04 PM #4
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    Not sure about the wiring on a rangie so can't help you much there. However you might want to consider putting in a two way switch so you can choose to either use the high beam to control the spotties or just flick the switch manually to turn them on. I've done this on my vehicles and its saved me more than once to get home when somethings gone wrong with the main lighting circuit. Still not legal, but you can keep the switch on the high beam circuit for rego checks or whatever you need to appear "legal".
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