Not for my Camaro, but for my other Z, the ZR2.

My headlamp switch went out on me the other day, causing me to not have any dash lights whatsoever. Well, today I got around to finding a new one at a dealer about 45mins away that was selling for wholesale. Go up there and pic it up and immediately take it out of the box and plug it into the harness to see if it works(my dash is taken apart already so it makes it easy) and it does work. Excellent!

Well, get home, install it correctly and hook everything up and the moment I switch it from nothing to parking lights...poof, little bit of smoke coming from the switch. WTF! Turn it off again and try it again and its not working at all.


Only thing I can think of that was different was that at the dealer I only hooked up the main harness, but not the fog light harness. I installed a set of Hella Optilux fog lights, that I used the stock fog light wiring to throw the relay switch. Thats it, its just throwing the swtich, no power or nothing is going through it, unlike the factory setup where the power goes through the switch. So shouldnt that be better for it? Im pretty pissed off that this happened and cant really figure out why, plus it sucks having to waste a new switch or try and get them to get me a new one, but its a little bit of a drive

 

I'm a little confused. Did you splice relays for the fog lights into the stock harness? How are you bypassing the stock switch? If you burned up the switch after hooking up the fog lights, it sounds like you have a short in that harness and it blew the switch.

 

Well, after saying that I looked more closely at the switch and the fog light switch is completely seperate from the rest of the switch, so even if I had a problem there it would have only messed up the swtich.

However I think I figured it out. My 4x4 switch had burned out its light, so when I had my dash apart I took that out and tried to figure out how to replace that light. Well, its soldered onto the board but for some reason I felt like pulling it off the board. When I did however, I left the two contacts on the board touching each other. This could cause a large draw of power correct? Thus potentially burning out the headlight switch(because it only lights up when the dash lights go on)?