Installing The Fog Lights on Honda Element
NOTE: These installation instruction present the left fog gentle being installed. The same process applies to putting in the appropriate fog lights.
1. Be sure you have the anti-theft code for the radio, then write down the frequencies for the preset buttons.
2. Disconnect the unfavorable cable from the battery.
3. Open the hood and take away the radiator cover (5 clips).
4. With the assistance of an assistant, take away the front bumper (seven clips on the high, six clips and four stepped bolts on the bottom and one self-tapping screw on each side). Put the bumper on a blanket to protect the finish.
5. Contained in the entrance bumper, locate the three marks on the fog gentle housing on the left side. Utilizing a pushpin, pierce the bumper on the heart of each mark. While wearing eye safety, drill a three mm pilot gap then end with a 20 mm hole by means of the bumper at the heart of each mark.
6. Using a hacksaw blade, minimize out the marked area from the entrance bumper alongside the inside of the scribed line and the groove on the back. Take away all burrs from the sides of the cutout.
7. Inside the front bumper, slide the fog mild into the cutout you made, and safe it with four self- tapping screws.
8. Repeat steps 5 through 7 to chop the bumper and install the fog light on the right facet of the bumper.
Routing The Fog Lights Harness
9. Beginning below the left headlight, route the fog light harness 1-pin connector and floor terminal by means of the outlet within the entrance bulkhead.
10. Locate the 1-pin connector blue-taped to the vehicle harness and remove the blue tape to free the 1-pin connector. Join the 1-pin connector you simply freed to the fog light harness 1-pin connector.
11. Remove the bottom bolt that fastens the car floor terminal and secure the fog lights harness floor terminal using this floor bolt.
12. Safe the fog lights harness 1-pin connector and the fog lights harness to the vehicle harness with one wire tie. Do not safe the 1-pin connector to the SRS harness with the wire tie.
13. Behind the front side body, route the fog lights harness 2-pin connector (quick end) down, and out through the clearance between the aspect frame and front bumper beam. Connect the wire tie with clip on the fog light harness into the hole in the facet frame.