Hello,
I tried to find some information on this here, but to no avail. Maybe this is pointless, but I'd still like to be sure of that. Now I'm not.
What I'm asking about are rear fog lights on 4G Escape. Mine has front fog lights fitted, and they do work - turned on by the light knob button.
To my best knowledge, US Escapes had also a Chinese flavor. That's how we know (I believe) they still can be fitted with HCM, load metering and autoleveling lamps.
The manual seems to mention they also had rear fog lights: Ford Escape - Description and Operation - Exterior Lighting - Overview - Exterior Lighting
Now, I have fitted my Escape with light switch from Kuga: LV4T-13D061-EEW. This has two buttons in the knob. Upper one for front fogs, and lower one for rear fogs.
Replacement was painless, upper button worked as expected. Lower one did nothing. I took Forscan and set in IPC "Rear Fog Light Indicator" to "Enabled". The button still did nothing. Then I set BCM's Rear Fog Light to "Enabled". The effect can be seen here, the orange indicator (the green one is for front and they do work, of course):
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This means the BCM, at least in the software, does accept enabling rear fog light by pressing the button, and it drives the instruments to show they are enabled. Now, my question is if the China market version of 4G Escape has a different hardware, which lacks some small parts that would be able to drive the rear fog light, or is it just an unused (in the US) pin?
Do you have the BCM pinout for US, and for the China market?
I've read somewhere, that Escapes are closest to Broncos. Some Broncos even seem to have the harness for it: Installing Rear Fog/Chase Light Using Factory Switch & Harness
It's C2280C connector pin 25, white-blue for these Broncos.
Having the harness would be too much happiness, but having a working pin driven by the button would be great.
I tried to find some information on this here, but to no avail. Maybe this is pointless, but I'd still like to be sure of that. Now I'm not.
What I'm asking about are rear fog lights on 4G Escape. Mine has front fog lights fitted, and they do work - turned on by the light knob button.
To my best knowledge, US Escapes had also a Chinese flavor. That's how we know (I believe) they still can be fitted with HCM, load metering and autoleveling lamps.
The manual seems to mention they also had rear fog lights: Ford Escape - Description and Operation - Exterior Lighting - Overview - Exterior Lighting
Now, I have fitted my Escape with light switch from Kuga: LV4T-13D061-EEW. This has two buttons in the knob. Upper one for front fogs, and lower one for rear fogs.
Replacement was painless, upper button worked as expected. Lower one did nothing. I took Forscan and set in IPC "Rear Fog Light Indicator" to "Enabled". The button still did nothing. Then I set BCM's Rear Fog Light to "Enabled". The effect can be seen here, the orange indicator (the green one is for front and they do work, of course):
This means the BCM, at least in the software, does accept enabling rear fog light by pressing the button, and it drives the instruments to show they are enabled. Now, my question is if the China market version of 4G Escape has a different hardware, which lacks some small parts that would be able to drive the rear fog light, or is it just an unused (in the US) pin?
Do you have the BCM pinout for US, and for the China market?
I've read somewhere, that Escapes are closest to Broncos. Some Broncos even seem to have the harness for it: Installing Rear Fog/Chase Light Using Factory Switch & Harness
It's C2280C connector pin 25, white-blue for these Broncos.
Having the harness would be too much happiness, but having a working pin driven by the button would be great.
