Aftermarket Switch Location
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Aftermarket Switch Location
Hi guys. Just joined the site and looking for some insight. I have a 2012 Caravan SE (Sales Edition). Its a company vehicle and I'm going to be installing some aftermarket fogs. Problem is, for the life of me I can't find a place to put the switch. I have to put it somewhere that I can remove it when I return the vehicle and have no obvious evidence that it was there.
The only place I can think of is cutting a hole in the little trim panel just above and to the right of the headlight switch.
Seen in this picture as the silver trip piece at 9 O'clock to the steering wheel.
The ONLY other place I can see being a possibility is the little dummy switch between the hazard lights button and the traction control toggle, but its too small for the switch.
Does anyone else have any experience of doing this, either in that location, or somewhere else? I'll have to call the dealership and get a price on a new trim piece before I cut that one, but if someone else has any experience of installing a switch somewhere I'm all ears. It seems the days of countless dummy switches on a dashboard are long gone.
Cheers
The only place I can think of is cutting a hole in the little trim panel just above and to the right of the headlight switch.
Seen in this picture as the silver trip piece at 9 O'clock to the steering wheel.
The ONLY other place I can see being a possibility is the little dummy switch between the hazard lights button and the traction control toggle, but its too small for the switch.
Does anyone else have any experience of doing this, either in that location, or somewhere else? I'll have to call the dealership and get a price on a new trim piece before I cut that one, but if someone else has any experience of installing a switch somewhere I'm all ears. It seems the days of countless dummy switches on a dashboard are long gone.
Cheers
Last edited by Sporatic; 02-16-2013 at 11:16 PM.
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Not sure why you even need a switch when the headlight switch is more than capable to be wired to do the job with a simple jumper off one of the running lights for reference voltage while the relay can be wired directly to the battery. Far more simple than cutting holes and drilling a hole in the firewall to pass wires through.
To each their own.