Fog Light Conversion

[HenryV]

Some of you who noticed in recent get-together drives, others, see if you can spot the difference between the taillights in the first pic:

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No - not the silvervision bulb for the turn signals

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Right - the left taillight glows with one more bulb:

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Before:

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After (the brake light is also on, ignore this left-most light)

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Same on driver's side (no brake light, just running lights)

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Mod is very simple, you need to

1) disconnect the fog-light position from the wiring harnass

2) reconnect (solder) the base of the fog-light position together with the running lights

3) change the bulb to a normal running light bulb.

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Here you see the tail light insert after soldering, and hooked up to power:

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Here, the same tail light insert at the left, the non-converted tail light insert at the right:

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It's a very minor mod, but you have twice the light-output on the freeway, and redundancy - should one bulb fail.

You give up the fog light option, but I have never used this option in California. If you like to keep this, you need to do a little more wiring (need a two-wire bulb with contact points)

For higher resolution pics go to my webpage

[scherb]

This is cool. Now I need a work on cars day with 24hours for the long list of things I want to do...one more added...

[atomichead]

Is there any chance of an electrcal problem if you were to switch on the foglights?

[HenryV]

Is there any chance of an electrcal problem if you were to switch on the foglights?

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Not at all - in my case I ended up taking the pin for the fog light out of the connector. That way I can solder the lead to the lamp to the running lights (rendering the fog-light switch useless).

If you would like to keep the foglight feature, you can opt for a double-pole light bulb (both brake/fog and running light) and you have to make the harnass fit this. It is technically not too difficult, you just have to figure out how to make a custom harnass.

Edited November 3, 2004 by HenryV