How To: Rear Fog Light in Taillights
Hi,
since i also got alot of help here i decided to make a little writeup how to convert your oem taillight/brakelight combination to a taillight/brakelight/foglight combination. Generally only the eu-Spec FD's got a rear fog light, but what to do if you import a jdm or usdm fd? You have to apply a rear foglight to legalize your car... There have been discussed a lot of solutions, for example:
What you have to do:
http://img255.imageshack.us/img255/4495/foglight.th.jpg wire colors (kouki fd 99'): green: brakelight brown: taillight black: ground --> finished, now you got a symmetric rear fog light and all the other functionality is still given. I hope that helps some of the european fd owners here. greetings ica |
Appreciate the motivation, but the reason only Euro-spec cars received rear fogs is because (w/the exception of small indirect license plate lights) white/clear lights visible to the rear while the car is in motion forward are illegal in my State....and I suspect in all others. Your modification would cost about $80 if cited where I live.
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Great info and a clever idea!
Just FYI for others reading this thread - This is NOT a good idea on a US spec car. This is to meet a European standard for a rear mounted foglight which is required by law. It's basically one or more bright red lights on the back so the car is clearly visible in the fog to a car approaching quickly from the rear. This just simply puts 2 of the taillight bulbs into permanent "brake light on" mode, which is when they're lit the brightest. So, 2 of the bulbs will be brightly lit all the time, the others will all function as normal. In the US, your car would look broken with this setup :). In Europe, they'd know you had it on for a foggy day. And, I believe you have to demonstrate a functional rear fog light to get the car registered and on the road. Dale |
If that's the case, I stand corrected. I didn't read it close enough and assumed he was talking some type of white light. I thought I remembered seeing those occasionally on old TR's, MG's etc. that the local miliary guys brought home with them.
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In the UK, a fog light has to be a minimum of 100mm from a brake/side light to be legal. They also require an interior warning light to be lit when the fog light is on.
Source: http://www.opsi.gov.uk/si/si1989/Uks...1796_en_16.htm That being said....Mine wasn't even checked when it went in for its test......I was almost disappoint haha For mine, I just stuck a red bulb in my right reversing light housing & rewired it to an oem front fog switch :) Old interior pic of my warning light: http://i108.photobucket.com/albums/n...D/IMG_1569.jpg |
My S80 T6 Volvo has the 'rear fog' light built in. Pretty cool, really.
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Originally Posted by Ceylon
(Post 9906020)
In the UK, a fog light has to be a minimum of 100mm from a brake/side light to be legal.
Eh... Personally, after looking at the reverse light assembly, it may be somewhat easy to pop the rear plastic out and add a lamp. Plenty of room. But that's just me if I were to do it. :) |
my old mazda mx-3 also had the rear foglight next to the break light and that was oem and legal. i'm trying to get the oem rear fog light switch, but if i don'T find one, i'll also use another front foglight switch.
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Did someone still have the wiring diagram?
THanks. |
reading this thread as my EU spec rear fog light is right next to me on my desk...
Here are a few pics for reference if anyone is interested. https://cimg9.ibsrv.net/gimg/www.rx7...9cd281fda9.jpg https://cimg0.ibsrv.net/gimg/www.rx7...a82efcf32d.jpg https://cimg1.ibsrv.net/gimg/www.rx7...b32db10e79.jpg https://cimg7.ibsrv.net/gimg/www.rx7...c019e5e6c6.jpg |
Originally Posted by RotaryAddict
(Post 12572416)
Did someone still have the wiring diagram?
THanks. |
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