Fog Light

[chrisJDM]

:Thumbs-up cheers need to decide wether to put it in brake light or reverse light now hehe

[michaelb]

reverse light !!!!

have all your break lights working !!! MOT !!!!

Regards,
Michaelb

:Thumbs-up cheers need to decide wether to put it in brake light or reverse light now hehe

[Mobilemick]

You can wire it to a brake light and still have all brake lights working

[chrisJDM]

does a fog light need 2 b a certain brightness?

[Hayward North]

Well we do a lot of import foglight conversions at mx5city and yes it needs to be a certain brightness but most MOT testers dont know so as long as its red its ok, Foglight in the brake light is a no no, unless you just add another bulb holder to your original brakelight, it needs to work indepenently, ie, weather your foglight is on or not you need to see to lights illuminate when you press the brake peddle, also your foglight button needs to illuminate and turn on with the sidelights and be offset to the drivers side not central (most MOT testers dont know it needs to be offset) or it will fail an MOT, Best is to wire it into the drivers side revers light with an illuminated switch, Use a sideligt live for your scorce.

[Kevin]

Crap at drawing, but there u go .
You can use it on any brake light,  doesnt have to be high level one

:Thumbs-up

[Mobilemick]

mmm interesting...

Dont do MOT`s meself, so no idea the legalities of it,:)

I have 5 brake lights on the rear of my rx, 4 rear, and one high level brake light,

I wired me fog light into one of the brakelights,  i switch on me sidelights and they all light up, i press the brake and they all light up, i switch on me fog light, and me side lights are on & only one lights the fog light,  

So this seems fine to me


Mick

[Mobilemick]

Thanks for your reply Kevin    

[Kevin]

Thanks for your reply Kevin    

Anytime.  Just as a matter of interest do you just service the bolton area or do you go slightly outside, i.e. Ashton/Wigan area??

[Mobilemick]

Wigan, aint to far, depends what the job is,  i have a mate who tends to do the wigan jobs for us

[Hayward North]

mmm interesting...

Dont do MOT`s meself, so no idea the legalities of it,:)

I have 5 brake lights on the rear of my rx, 4 rear, and one high level brake light,

I wired me fog light into one of the brakelights,  i switch on me sidelights and they all light up, i press the brake and they all light up, i switch on me fog light, and me side lights are on & only one lights the fog light,  

So this seems fine to me


Mick

Not Strickly leagal but if ya MOT tester interperates the rules differently then all well and good, there is a lot that has been left to the discression on the tester so is down to the person i guess.

[chrisJDM]

Thanks for all the help guys im gona have a play with it today and see wot i can come up with :Thumbsup!

[chrisJDM]

went and bought some diodes today, got a couple of them just in case, how exactly do i wire them in? :Hammer

[Mobilemick]

basically the diode cuts the feed going to the other brake lights,  you dont want all ur brake lights coming on, when you turn ur fog switch on , it could be a red wire not sure,


Cut that wire, then wire the fog switch wire to the wire coming out of the light.(switch on your fog switch and your fog light(high level brake light) will come on,  but no other brake lights.

Press your brake and the high level one wont come on.

then the wire that goes back to the brake pedal, put one end of the diode on there, and then connect the red wire, and the fog switch wire to the other end of the diode,

I drew u a piccy  lol


hth
Mick

[pdtaylor18]

get an rx8 one like mine,really cool and easy to fit....just see my little pic