ej20g swap problem
 

I have a '96 Impreza wagon , i have swapped in a 94 WRX EJ20G turbo motor and gearbox, I replaced everything from the front seats forward, all the wiring, Dash , heater and everything.

the car starts and runs mint.

i have turn signals,
Head lights
tail lights
dash warning lights
hazard lights
Interior Light (On Roof)
the heater, fan , aircon all work.

i have a bumper with spotlights and they don't work.

i have replaced the wiring with everything that came in the front cut, but the spot lights don't seem to work.

more to the point. the spotlight switch on the dash lights up and works but the Corner park lights come on with the switch is on.

also i have no Dash lights on either the dash or the heater/fan control. but i do have a interior light.

what could i have done wrong.

I have checked and re checked the wiring for the last 3 days. Has anyone had this issue before.?

Please help.

Regards

check fuses

ok thanks for that.

Yep they all work.

it's not a fuse because i'm no Subaru Mechanic but i'm pretty sure that the spot lights are ment to go on when the spot light switch is pressed. If nothing happened then yes it could be a fuse or even a relay. but the fact that it is turning on the park lights means that it's working just not the way it's ment too.

swap the wires between the fog lights and park lights. in some models they share identical plugs.

fog lights, not spot lights :)

[QUOTE=tuna]fog lights, not spot lights :)[/QUOTE]
Same fine for using them aha

ok, i'll try that but if that was the case. wouldn't the Spot lights :) come on when i turned the headlight switch on?

because the headlight switch works as it should first click Park lights, second low beam and the high beam works too.

Is there a switch on top of the steering column? Should be, try flicking that on/off and see if anythin lights up. If your fog lights come on there would have to be something that needs swapping around

Yeah there is a switch there,

No it doesn't light up the fog lights only the park lights.

Everything works like it should apart from the fog lights don't light up th epark lights do and there is no dash lights

i thought i had the wrong relay plugged in but tried swapping every single one, but still the same issue

i was kind of wishing this had happened to someone else, to get a fix as i've tried just about everything.

i'm not a subaru mechanic but i am motorcycle one..:)

Stupid question, but has it got globes in it..???

Yea just a thought, you never know. There was a thread recently about someone having park lights staying on and it was because of that switch he'd never seen before.

Might be time to invest in a multimeter after you play with the connectors ;)

yeah i read that post too.

But there not staying on. you can clearly hear the relay click and see them light up when i press the spot light button.

and go off when the button is turned off. it's so F'ked up..:)

yes they have globes. i have even connected them to straight power and got it going.

i really appreciate everyone's help and it's interesting and refreshing to get new opinions as my brain has been wracking around this for a couple of days. but i think we are missing the big picture.

globe's no globe's. fuse no fuse.

the Fog light switch should not be turning on the park lights right?

[QUOTE=Madkat]the Fog light switch should not be turning on the park lights right?[/QUOTE]
Correct, it should be turning on the fog lights. Maybe that was one of the changes they made between 94 and 96??? It's only a simple wire but back then I doubt they were considering people swapping running gear over. You know you could have re-wired the lights directly to the switch/relay in the past 3 days you've been stuffing about with it :p

yes thats true however the wiring that is now in the car is the same wiring that goes with the engine and the fog lights.

I replaced everything, every nut and bolt, relay fuse switch, engine, dash both the main dash and the dash with the speedo and stuff. i think i will look at rewiring the fog lights direct, as this is still doing my head in. it's not a new engine with old wiring it's all from the same donor car.

i might give jap auto's a go tomorrow as thats where i got it all from.

Have you tried turning them on with high beam only? a lot of people have them re wired so they can't be left on by mistake when the lights are either off or on low beam/park.
As for the dash lights maybe try spraying some contact cleaner in the indicator/light switch & the turn knob for the dash lights, worked for a friend a couple of weeks ago when her indicators shit themselves.

yes, i have tried everything. again thanks everyone for your help,

Let me try and explain this again.

let's go.

Engine running, Engine not running, Light's on, Light's Off, Car In reverse, Doors Open, Doors, Closed, Wiper's on , Wipers Off, fan, heater aircon On, and off.

Every different thing i tried. but the problem isn't that the fog lights arnt work which ok there not. the problem is that no mater if they worked of not. the fog light switch turns on the park lights not the fog lights.

so i understand everyone is trying to look at this as a simple problem.

If it was simple i wouldn't be on here..:)

[QUOTE=Madkat] the problem is that no mater if they worked of not. the fog light switch turns on the park lights not the fog lights.
[/QUOTE]

As Tuna has already pionted out, the foglight and parklights have the same plugs and the wires are roughly the same length and come from the same loom inside the front mudguard. It sounds like the first thing you should do is swap the plug from your parklight to your foglights and see if half your problem is solved.

If you have inadvertently plugged park into fogs (and vice versa) you will have overloaded the parklight curcuit. It's designed to run 11watt globes, not 55w.

Ok well i tried that and my fog light's and park lights have different plugs.

the fog light plug is the same as the fender turn signal plug but they all work fine so i doubt it's that.

the donor car might have though.

Madkat,

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