Ce lancer fog lights

You could, I'd look in to costs first and see if its worth it.
The advantage of having OEM lights is that, the brackets all fit and screw in to thier proper spots and it plugs in via the factory wiring. On that note probably an idea to check that the factory foglight wiring is there, usually tied up either side of your radiator just down from your parker light wiring. Id so, all you'd need it a light switch for your dash and youre good to go.

Sorry to drag up an old one!

I have the late model loom with fog wiring etc. Is there a relay required to make it happen - or simply plug in lights/switch and good to go?
 
If it’s all original looms and nothing has been cut/ added
Then it should be %100 plug and play
As long as the dash board has the fog light plugs/wiring
 
Cheers!

I was just wondering whether there might be a missing relay that needs to be plugged in, as per power windows/mirrors install.
 
Yeah that I know, did it on the weekend.

Was wondering whether there was a sneaky relay required somewhere to get fog lights working.

There not real sneaking or rocket science in it. If you’ve got MR interior and front looms, it’s all plug n play.
If your still running a stock interior loom, it won’t have the additional wiring from the on off switch to the connector plug where the two looms meet.

I did have a picture somewhere which showed my original Mirage loom and the MR front loom and the missing white wire.
I’ll see if I can find it on another post.
 
There not real sneaking or rocket science in it. If you’ve got MR interior and front looms, it’s all plug n play.
If your still running a stock interior loom, it won’t have the additional wiring from the on off switch to the connector plug where the two looms meet.

I did have a picture somewhere which showed my original Mirage loom and the MR front loom and the missing white wire.
I’ll see if I can find it on another post.

That would be great
I have the plug for the on/off switch at the dash, and the plugs for the lights next to the radiator - does that mean I’m good to go, or you’re saying there might be still be another wire missing?

Car is a 1/2003 and power mirrors/windows were plug and play for me once I sourced the door looms/relay.
 
You maybe good to go, only one way to find out.

Otherwise, check the wiring as below.

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You maybe good to go, only one way to find out.

Otherwise, check the wiring as below.

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Ok interesting
White wire in, but no wire out.

You learn something every day. I thought when it came to CE looms, you either had the ‘full loom’ or the ‘basic loom’. Damn shades of grey!
 
Ok looks like I’m down a white wire.

Am I right in saying I simply need to run a wire from the back of the switch to this point on the plug using an OE pin, or is further work needed?

Seems bizarre that they’d have a loom completely equipped for power windows/mirrors, with plugs at the bumper for fogs, the plug for the switch sitting behind the dash, yet with one single wire deleted!?
 
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On mine, at that point I still had my original 2001 Mirage interior loom, white wire missing.
I added power windows and mirrors from my MR wreck no issues.

So thinking I could add the foggies too, I swapped out my original front loom for the MR loom.
A bit of wire tracing later, I then noticed the missing white wire on the interior loom.
So I then pulled out the MR interior loom from my wreck and swapped it over making it all OEM AF!

Great to have a parts car! :sunglasses:
 
Did your original 2001 loom/setup include plugs for the lights behind the bumper, and the switch behind the dash?

I know there’s scope for spec levels to be wildly different year to year, particularly towards end of production when they’re ‘using up’ stock. Case in point - my car doesn’t have the illustrious ‘Pin 58’ white wire on the ECU, and yet my tach dash worked immediately when plugged in - no need to do the ‘earthing mod’ and run a wire to Pin 58.
 
The plug was behind the dash for the switch, but missing the wire.
No plugs behind the bumper for the lights themselves.
 
Yeah interesting - so I could be in some middle ground of specification.

Very curious to test whether it’ll all work straight up - should have bits by the weekend. Worst case - do I just need to run a wire from the back of the switch to that point on the loom plug?

Given I have wiring/plugs sitting behind the bumper, I’d find it incredible that there might be other ‘gaps’ in the system.
 
The plug was behind the dash for the switch, but missing the wire.
No plugs behind the bumper for the lights themselves.
Ok so I’m now a bit confused - the ‘missing’ white wire isn’t on the side that runs up to the switch - it’s the side that then vanishes into the main loom.

So if this wire is missing, where do I need to patch into to restore that connection?
 
Just traced it on a car at the wreckers.

The missing section splits off after that plug junction - one part routing out to the fuse/relay box, the other routing around the top of the steering column and down to another group of plugs.
 
Ok so I’m now a bit confused - the ‘missing’ white wire isn’t on the side that runs up to the switch - it’s the side that then vanishes into the main loom.

So if this wire is missing, where do I need to patch into to restore that connection?

Exactly, but I didn’t bother.
I had just swapped out my entire interior loom rather that wire it.
I hate wiring wires, saved myself the drama of following wires everywhere and just swapped it all over so it was like it rolled out of the factory.
 
Exactly, but I didn’t bother.
I had just swapped out my entire interior loom rather that wire it.
I hate wiring wires, saved myself the drama of following wires everywhere and just swapped it all over so it was like it rolled out of the factory.

Update!
So my car has active power at the fog light fuse, there’s even a fuse already in place.

But no power to the fog plugs themselves. That white cable is a circuit that runs from the fuse block to the steering column (presumably for headlight signal). The missing part tees into this wire, and runs up to the fog switch. The three red wires from the fog light switch also go no further than that plug pictured above. Too hard to try and sort that out - we will wire them up independently on a separate relay, using the OE switch.
 
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