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Old 11 August 2009, 09:41 AM
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On UK classics, do they have the rear fog built into a rear light cluster? I don't like the seperate rear fog on my jap one and would like to do something with it to get rid of it, so was thinking, get a UK cluster and wire in the rear fog to that?

Any info would be great,

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Old 11 August 2009, 09:48 AM
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you can just rewire up the lights you already have it will just remove one of the reverse lights.

https://www.scoobynet.com/wales-26/7...mport-sti.html
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Awesome, nice and cheap too
Old 11 August 2009, 10:19 AM
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lol I did this the other day!

Got Zen to rewire the fog to the O/S reversing light cluster... and replaced the white reversing bulb with a regular chrome one but which shines red. The problem though is that it's very weak - no where near 20x brighter than regular tail lights.

So I bought this:-

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.d...fvi%3D1&_rdc=1

Having 24 little LEDs they should be bright as hell... but... they are about 0.5-1mm too wide to get in the damn bulbholder. Looks like I've got to file the grey plastic away a tad...

I understand from ZEN that a customer's 22B has one of these LED bulbs fitted in the reversing-light cluster, and that it passed the MOT no problem...

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I had the same issue, so I took the LED route like Joz, however ran into the same issue in that I was concerned about brightness etc. So I did this:





These are two LED brake bulbs from Halfords that I have 'modified' to create a dual array. Note the angle they are mounted at - this was needed as the reversing bulb is angled, so to get the LEDs pointing rearwards (required as light is very directional) I needed to offset the bulb holder

Results are V good, it is definitely brighter than the tail lights, and probably as bright as the brake lights too (and passed the MOT)
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