Rough Country Bronco Fog Light Installation Wiring With Auxiliary Switches
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- Опубліковано 3 жов 2022
- Here are some details on installing the Rough Country Bronco Fog Lights with the DRL backlights to the Bronco Auxiliary Switches along with wiring tips.
This light kit installs into the Modular bumper and does not fit the base or capable bumper.
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This video has been nothing but amazing. You made RC's factory instruction look like a toddler wrote it. Thank you and please keep on creating these great content.
Thank you for making this video. I've been searching for the best way to wire in these lights for a few days now, and this video to me is the best solution!
That's great to hear, glad it helped!
Hey! Just wanted to pass on a solid THANKS for this video. I didn’t buy the ones with the DRL, just the basic high output ones from Rough Country. I used the solder thing you recommended too. Worked great. Again, thanks for the video.
It's great to hear it helped you out, and you're welcome!!!
Did u get the flood or the spot? And how is it
I appreciate the video. I recently purchased the 3.5 Round LED ditch lights from RC. I assume they have a similar wire setup? They come with 2-blue, 2-white, 1-red, 3- black that all attach to the switch. I don’t care to use the DRL portion of the light, so do it connect the blue(power) and 3 (black/ground) only?
You should just have an equal number of power and grounds if they are like the bumper lights. Anything else is most likely part of a harness that it came with that isn't needed? I know I have seen different colors in different lights for the mains or backlighting. If it says Blue is the power and black is the ground then test a blue wire on your positive terminal and then touch the black ground to your negative and see if and what it lights up. Switch to the other ground if nothing happens and see what you get. Ditch lights are on my list. I just picked up some Ford Tube doors though and am looking forward to some warm weather to test them out.
This video was so helpful. Great video. Did you get the white or the amber DRL? I can’t find anything that can explain the difference
I have the white DRLS. The DRLS just mean the color of the backlight. You can run them on a different switch so they are always on when the truck is running. I picked white so it would go with the headlights since they are always on when you are driving (daytime running lights). When I want the full brightness I just flip the other switch I have wired to the higher power bulbs in the lights. So the backlights are just for looks really although they do make you a bit more noticeable coming down the road I'd say.
So just to verify. If I have the factory auxiliary switches,. I can remove the relay and the on/off switch that comes on the wire harness?
Yes, you just need to ground all the lights and then hook up the like colors together to an aux switch. Switch 2 or 1 needs to be for the actual full lights and you can use switch 3-6 for the backlight DRL if your lights have that option. The full lights together take about 15 amps and aux switch 2 is rated for exactly that so I used that leaving my switch 1 freed up for bigger things later maybe.
If you run your drls on switch 6 and they are on full time are you able then turn on your switch two and run both the drls and full lights at the same time?.....or is that bad for the lights
Yes, you can run both. No reason it should be bad for them at all.
Im confused,
Did you cut off the wires with the switch or the wires with the red and black terminal?
I have aux switches and want to do this setup where the amber drls are always on, but do i cut the switch or the one with black and red terminal/power.
Hi Luis, You want to cut off the switches and relays and all that off. You are just going to wire to your wiring that goes to your aux switches.
I have a base model not prewired any suggestions for fog lights
If you're just planning on adding one set of lights then it would be overkill to get into installing switch panels etc. For just one set of lights I'd look for someone illustrating how to add factory fog lights to the base bronco because I'd like to add them to the factory switch where the Fog Light button is I believe on the higher trim trucks. The other option would be to just wire your fog light in per their instructions and use a fuse tap to get power to them without any splicing needed and mount a separate switch for them at the bottom of the dash somewhere.
If you haven't bought fog lights yet check out the ones in a video by "Greenback Grange Tn" . The lights he found fit really well on the base bumper. You'll need to find another video though regarding wiring without the aux switches since he has them.
I’m a rookie, do these lights come with the backlight as standard or it works like that because of the way you wired it? I like the idea of using it as drl without blinding other drivers. I like the design of Oracle lights but i don’t know if it works as drl or I can wire the way you did and use less power as backlight
Hi, the lights need to be capable/built with backlights. Think of it as another set of low power bulbs so there is essentially 2 lights in 1 so you can then wire them to separate switches allowing you to have them on separately.
@@TheCorneringStore ohhh ok, thank you very much what model did you installed?
@luissuarez8992 it's the full kit that comes with the 3 lights w/white backlights and brackets for each side that fits the modular bumper. Rough Country brand. They don't have them on Amazon so you have to look for them on their website or another reseller.
Thank you! So helpful!
Great video!! How are the lights holding up so far? CN you make another video how they look on, off and drls? Thanks
They are doing just fine. I just have aux switch 6 for the DRLs flipped on permanently so they alwayd come on and off with the Bronco. I've only used the full power once at night and they did a good job of really lighting up the dirt road ahead. I think with some ditch lights up top to cover the sides a bit more it would be plenty of light for any casual offroad enthusiast. If I'm able to put together a good lighting scenario I'll put up a video of it. Thanks!
@@TheCorneringStore Do you happen to know what the amperage is for the the RC backlighting drls for all 6? I am playing on adding a pair of the same 2" drls as ditch lights and wanted to know if i would be able to tap into the exsisting 6 I already have in aux 6 without it being over the 10amps.
@thefontsforfunhustleig3026 I plan on doing the same thing if I add some ditch lights and they have drls. I never saw any listed wattage for the DRLs, but I don't see the drls pulling anything near 10 amps so you will be fine adding another pair into the 6. I've just had my #6 switch flipped permanently still for the drls and all is good!
@The Cornering Store yea my aux 6 is always on too. I am adding the ditch light tomorrow so if any problems I will let you know. Thanks
@@thefontsforfunhustleig3026 lmk, I was actually just looking at the RC ditch lights online and have them in my cart.
Where does the ground wire go?
I am planning to do this install as well but want 2 pairs to be in switch 2 and 1 pair to be on switch 3 but wire all blue wire = DRL wire into switch 6 and
all ground wire into 1 wire will this work? or should I separate the ground wire by the switch 2 and 3
It's perfectly fine to wire all the grounds together and just separate the light power wires to the switches that you want to operate them.
@@TheCorneringStore how were you able to connect all 6 wires before putting it in the heat shrink?
@Sanjuk0522 slide big enough shrink wrap down the wires on both sides and after connected slide the shrink wrap back up and over the connection.
@@TheCorneringStore so you twisted all 6 bare wires?
Where did you attach the rellay and did you attach the red to the positive battery. I've never done wiring I want to learn and not call guys all the time to do things for me. But I also don't wanna f up my bronco
The Auxiliary Switches have relays built in already. You just need to ground all the lights and then put the same colors together and connect them to the switch wires as I showed in the video. You'll end up getting rid of the switch and any other things the lights came with and just connecting the wires right from the lights to a ground point and 2 switches if you have the lights with backlight/driving lights. Watch the wiring part of the video again and let me know if you still have a question.
The power wires from the lights go to the switches. You don't hook anything to the battery because the power comes from the aux switch wires.
All of that makes sense. I've only watched this video a million times. Do you cut any of the wires off.(at relay? If not where did you tuck the extra) Other then at the switch to connect aux. Can I use the ground wire that already exists if you don't cut it at relay. Or ground the black wires cut at switch? I really do appreciate you a ton!
@@MargShaffer I unplugged all the wires from the switch and cut the ends off all of them since they werent useful for how I wored them up. You can do whatever is easiest to connect all the ground wires together. The easiest would be to put a big ring connector on the end of all the ground wires and then just put it under the bolt on the firewall.
As far as the length I cut and shortened up the drivers side quite a bit and then just trimmed back the abrasion covering/loom. I only ended up with about 1' of extra wire that is zip tied up by the aux switch wiring. If you ever need to go back in and replace a light or mess with the wiring you will want a little slack.
Make sure to slide some shrink wrap on the wires so before connecting them so you can pull it over the connection and shrink it OR do a good tight job with some electrical tape.
I put my blue wires on switch 3 and my white wires on switch 2. Problem is when I switch aux 3 the DRLs and white spots come on . Same thing happens when I turn aux 2 on. Can’t seem to get the DRLs to run by themselves . Went back and verified wiring . All blues to aux 3 and all spots to aux 2. Can’t figure what I did wrong . Any suggestions ?
There shouldn't be any way for the others to get power.... weird. Hmm, you cut off all the relays and everything, right? There is some way that power is being connected to both/all wires.
@@TheCorneringStore I did cut all the relays off. I’m stumped . I ordered the solder connections from your video. Once they arrive I’m gonna cut it all loose at the wiring harness termination and rewire.
@Tim Hallman after you remove everything test those switches with a test light amd make sure they don't both operate both wires. I would think it would be idiot proof at the factory, but possibly when the aux switch panel was installed or when the relays etc that are in a different area were wired incorrectly by Ford.
@@TheCorneringStore good idea… I’ll do that . Just to be safe too. I’m also gonna wire my DRLs all the way over to aux6 and see if that changes anything
In the video you only have 3 wires for each color, but there are 6 total. Am I missing something?
Nevermind, there are 6 wires, thanks a million for the video!
That truck has sensors. You could have bought a foglamp enabled headlight switch and plugged into the harness behind the bumper for the foglights and had backlight to the switch.
Can u show me how to remove the on off switch the harness came with
I just cut all the wires off. Leave the wires as long as you can and you cam trim them down later after youve routed them. You won't be using it for the install if you are using your factory aux switches, but as long as you leave some length then you could use the switch later. I'm going by memory here.
Do I need the black and red wires or just remove the and keep the black for ground
Is the aux switch in the bronco the power so I don't need the red wire just the black for ground
@junior97007 if you have the aux switches the power wire for each switch is in the engine bay. They are color coded for each switch. If you use your broncos radio you can find the wiring schematics in it. Use the power wire for the switch you want to use and wire the light power wires to it, and yes, then you just need to ground the ground wire from the lights where you want to. No need for the red from the switch if my memory serves correct.
@@TheCorneringStore thank u for your help 🙏