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Old Dec 16, 2010 | 09:58 PM
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I purchased a Hid kit from hidextra for my 07 ram and installed the fog lights and low and high beam last week. I know I need the resisters for the headlights and im just waiting for those to come in but the fog lights i know i don't. Now when I installed them they worked for a couple of days and now just shut off and wont come back on i tried putting in the stock bulbs and same result so i know its not the hid kit and i cant seem to find any fuse or relay for lights in the fuse box. Any ideas as to what's wrong?
 
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Old Dec 17, 2010 | 09:58 AM
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Double check your fuse box layout. There is a fuse for foglights. I believe it's right beside the fuse for the power pedal option.
 
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Old Dec 17, 2010 | 10:30 AM
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I installed a set of HIDextra kits on my stock fog lights. They work great. My only complaint is the seals are not as good as normal bulbs. I already have water in one of the lights. And the bulb is seated properly.
As for my stock headlights? No way. They blind other drivers. The police up here are cracking down on them too.
 
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Old Dec 17, 2010 | 02:27 PM
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I installed mine with the ballast plug connectrs facing to the ground to eliminate any water entry/build-up. You can also take a plastic baggie and tape it around the connectors. This will keep all of the water off the plugs.

OP, does your foglight Light illuminate on the dash? If not, your fog switch could be bad?? I don't believe there are any fuses for your foglights just the same as there aren't any fuses for the headlights. They are both controlled internally with switches internally of the TIPM.

The possibilies are as follows:
1) Open ground
2) Bad feed(i.e.no voltage)
3) Bad selector switch
4) Bad circuit on Instrument cluster
5) Bad circuit within your TIPM


To check the above, verify you have no voltage on either connector by using the battery negative(using the connector negative may not work if there is an open ground) and the connector positive. reading should be 12v
To verify you have an open ground, use the battery positive and connector negative. Reading should be 12v
Your selector switch should be in the ON position which means your parking lamps should be illuminated, otherwise, you won't get any readings.

If you get no reading eitherway, you'll need to verify that your selector switch is producing an output voltage and sending it to your Cluster. If your selector switch is sending the signal to the cluster, you'll need to check your cluster to find out if the cluster is sending the voltage to the TIPM. Your problem will lie in one of those instances. Hopefully you won't have to replace either your IC($350) or your TIPM($4500) because they are both fairly expensive.
 

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Old Dec 19, 2010 | 02:27 AM
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Hey thanks for everyones replies but i have a flashpaq superchip for my truck and just tried returning it back to factory settings and that fixed everything
 
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