WARNING - H3 Off Road Lights - Possible Fire Hazard

[cestwick]

I am at home now and would have to look but I do know for a fact that roof mounted lights are on a "HOT" circuit but the Grille mounted lights are on a "Ign. on HOT" cicuit. I do not know why GM made one hot all the time and not the other or vis-versa but they did. If you want it to be keyed hot all you would have to do is switch the wire in the fuse box from the roof light terminal to the grille lights terminal..before you ask I do not have that info with me but can find out or someone esle on here might have it available..

Chris

[PARAGON]

Originally Posted by cestwick

I am at home now and would have to look but I do know for a fact that roof mounted lights are on a "HOT" circuit but the Grille mounted lights are on a "Ign. on HOT" cicuit. I do not know why GM made one hot all the time and not the other or vis-versa but they did. If you want it to be keyed hot all you would have to do is switch the wire in the fuse box from the roof light terminal to the grille lights terminal..before you ask I do not have that info with me but can find out or someone esle on here might have it available..

Chris

Chris,

Are you sure the grille lights are not wired off the low beam headlights ie- the headlights have to be on to turn the grill lights on? Sometimes aux lights switch are fed this way.

[f5fstop]

Grille lights are controlled by the BCM, which in turn controls the RAP circuit. You could do some rewiring from the roof to the grille, but it would be more than one wire.
Roof has one wire coming out of the fuse box; whereas, the grille has two wires; not counting the BCM control circuit for the RAP relay.
It would be easier to do some cutting and butting of wires, than trying to rewire the roof lights to be the same as grille lights.