Wiring fog lights '88 GT- HELP!

I recently bought an 88 GT Convertible. The previous owner had disconnected the fog lights. On the drivers side, I can find 3 wires (two are orange (ish) and one is black. The orange one that was cut flush has power when the the headlights and fog light switches are switched on. On the passenger side, I can find two wires ( 1 orange, 1 black) but neither one has power when switches are on.

How do I wire a new set of fog lights - either OEM or after market? As much detail as possible would go a long way.

Any help/advice would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks

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Jimmy
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"Jimmy" wrote in news:x7ydnWs2_vYTIBLVnZ2dnUVZ_t snipped-for-privacy@comcast.com:

I too am the proud owner of an '88 GT Convertible I bought new. Actually, I gave it to my daughter a few years ago. OK, according to the wiring diagram in my Haynes manual for 1979-1992 Ford Mustangs and Mercury Capris, (you should get one) the fog lights on 1997 and later models indeed have three wires on the driver's side and two on the passenger side. The orange one on the driver's side you found power at is, guess what, the power. BTW, according to the manual, the orange wires are actually tan and orange, but I'll just refer to them as orange here. The black wires on both the driver's side and passenger side are grounds. The second orange wire on the driver's side leads to the passenger side fog light and is the power lead for that light. In other words, it should be connected to the first orange wire on the driver's side. When someone cut the hot orange wire you found on the driver's side, they must have disconnected it from the passenger side orange wire. I would imagine you could splice the passenger orange wire into the driver's hot orange wire anywhere along the line.

If you need any parts, these guys are pretty good:

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are lot of other Mustang parts specialists out there. Just Google Mustange Parts. It sounds like you will need the brackets which the lights mount into and the connector. The light does not normally come with this. Here's a link to one that looks like it does:
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luck.

Reply to
akheel

I too own an 88GT, there was a TSB on the foglights for that model year. The wiring going from the battery to the switch was to small a gauge. If you ran the foglights for too long the wiring would heat up and cause the circuit breaker to trip off. Nothing like driving down a country road in the middle of the night and having everything go black. A common sense workaround, assuming the wiring isn't fried already, is to wire in a separate relay for the foglights and use the power line from the headlight switch as the signal. That way you only have the load of the relay dragging on the headlight switch instead of the lights themselves.

Reply to
KEITH MCCUMBER

Thank you both for yoursuggestions. I will give it a try - I will get the Haynes manual as well. Thanks guys!

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> Good luck.

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Jimmy

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