Rear foglight recommendations?

[quartermain]

My rear foglight is a conversion of the right-hand reverse light, which I don\'t really like and on which the paint is flaking off so it\'s showing white and won\'t pass the next MOT unless I repaint it.

I\'d rather revert this back to a reverse light and fit a central foglight on the plastic panel below the rear bumper, in the centre. There already appears to be a small hole there in more or less the right place.

Would that be legal? It\'s quite low. And how small can you go and still pass the MOT - I\'m thinking maybe of a LED light about 3" by 1 1/2" or so.

[ds2000]

IIRC Foglights have to be on the right hand (drivers) side of the car to be MOT legal, if it were in the middle then it could fail.

(this is from memory so might be incorrect)

[allstaruk]

My foglights are built into the rear light cluster.

[Rotorboy65]

The rear foglight can be placed in the middle which is exceptible for your mot. The wifes Honda has the foglight in the middle at the bottom of the bumper. This is factory fitted from Honda, her car passed an mot just last Friday. There are alot of other marques out there with a similar setup as standard. HTH cheers Leigh.

[munkay]

as long as it works and displays at least one bright red light  it should be fine for MOT

if you have one on the left you must have one to match on the right side....

[scooby_si]

i have one of these fitted in Middle althou i believe it should/has to be off centre for MOT.....
Si

[munkay]

pug 206 have central foglights and have no problems with MOT

[the lemster]

I believe the RX-8 has a centre mounted fog light....

there is a similar thread going on at the moment in general technical where I am p[osting some pics of my install in the bumper on the drivers side... looks almost factory fitted...

[Mark C]

My high level (if it can be called that) brakelight has been converted to be the fog lamp.

[Tintin]

my fog light is the same as si\'s , will let you know if I have any probs as my MOTs due soon

[lee1boy]

What do you think to this modification for your fog lamps , it took me an Hour.
Lee

[MattR]

I use a small fog lamp..think its one by RING... fits neatly into the bottom of the rear bumper in that plastic valance... and wire it into the switch compartment by gear lever...

[Mave]

What do you think to this modification for your fog lamps , it took me an Hour.
Lee

It looks like you are using the centre switch to turn the light on? IIRC, for MoT there need to be a warning light to tell you that the rear fog is switched on I\'v got a non-Mazda switch on mine, I\'m still considering doing what you\'ve done, but modifying the switch to include an LED.

[lee1boy]

The light switch is lighted when switched on.
Lee

[Lesmon]

What do you think to this modification for your fog lamps , it took me an Hour.
Lee

Looks good to me. Care to share how you did it - especially a) the dimensions of that fog light (I remember looking last year for one small enough to fit behind the reflector and could not find one) and b) how you got the light to shine through the back plastic of the reflector?

Looking at the pics, looks as though you cut a 1 inch sq hole in the plastic behind the reflector for the light to get through - is this correct?