I am a new joiner, and currently awaiting delivery of my car. The car is an imported short wheelbase 2 seater Fairlady Z twin turbo of 1994.7 origin. The model has the slightly higher set spoiler.

I am concerned about the siting of the rear fog light, and agreed to have an external one filled under the bumper, rather than have the bumper cut at this stage.

I would like to have a better job after delivery and would like information about the fitting on other member's cars.

Can the rear cluster be modifier/replaced, or is this not legal. Is the only option to have twin rear fogs cut neatly into the rear bumper, as I see on some of the member's pictures?

Thank you in anticipation of your help.

Geoff

 

Geoff,

firstly, welcome to the forum.

 

The cars with the lamps in the bumper are all UK models, not imports.

 

There was an earlier discussion on the forum here about import fog lamps. You can get one of the inner brake lamps converted into a fog lamp if you want.

 

Hope this gets you off to a good start :)

 

Craig,

Thank you for the previous reference, and my apologies - I had not gone far enough back in the archives.

A couple of thoughts that the group may be able to help clarify, if I may:

1. Did anyone develop the relay circuit that got around the warning light problem?

2. Are there any other options? e.g. Does anyone know if the UK bumper would fit (perhaps only the 2+2 version, and not my SWB version)? I guess this would be too costly.

Thanks, Geoff

 

Someone has already done the mod on a Supra. I can't imagine it'll be all that different on a 300.

 

http://www.temporal-reality.freeserve.co.uk/TechTips/foglamp.htm

 

Let us know if it works! :-)

 

My mechanic took a slightly different approach to the problem. When my rear foglights are not on then all the brakelights are operated from the brake pedal (i.e. inner, outer and middle). When the foglights are on though, the inner pair of brake lights remain on.

 

This was accomplished using 5 diodes at various places in the rear clusters (he was an electrical engineer before!). I'm afraid I don't know precisely how he did it.

 

But if anyone is interested and doesn't mind the trip to Crawley, West Sussex then his phone number is on the bottom of my website (www.davehairs.freeserve.co.uk).

 

Cost was about 2 hours labour plus about £1 for the diodes !

 

Dave

 

Diodes would be an easy solution. Diodes work by forcing the current to flow only in one direction. I have not tried it, but I would guess that you would cut the existing wiring to the current brake light and then install diodes in the wiring to keep the fog light current from feeding back into the brake circuit. You might want to also place diodes in the wires for the fog light just to keep the circuit clean. If anyone is interested in trying this email me at bruce@provenst.com and I will send you some more detailed information. I will need to have rear fogs on my car at some point and will try this method then.