Q: Headlight ground?

asked by on October 22, 2016

Ok so im hooking up some AM spot lights or fog lights and on the brights wire i get them to go on and dims they shutoff but if i turn my lights completely off i get a constant power and the AM lights stay on how do i fix this

My car has 172600 miles.
My car has an automatic transmission.

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