PeteD

Apologies for posting it in here, just need as many people to see as poss.

Is there an idiots guide to fitting STI rear clusters on Scoobynet?? i.e wiring the foglight into one of the reverse lights.

Have tried the search facility but it brings up loads of irrelevent topics or ones with 2/3 replies

IPALMER

iTrader: (5)

some info. here

sti lights

but no info. on foglight wiring.

Iain

IPALMER

iTrader: (5)

found a bit more :

wiring

not really an idiot's guide tho !

StickyMicky

i just took the 2 wires that went to the foglight that was wired up under my bumper and joined them to one of the reverse lamps(with a red bulb fitted)

dont think thats gonna help you tho (i expect u have a uk car?)

Boro

iTrader: (1)

Did this recently, pretty straight forward really.

1) Undo connectors.

2) Unscrew two nuts on inside, lights will be stuck fast with tigerseal, so hit the bolts on the inside with a hammer to loosen.

3) Then pull out the rest of the way, the gooey stuff gets everywhere so be careful.

4) Wiring is straight forward. You need the original fog light feed from the loom connecting to the reverse light input on the light. So you only need to cut two wires and join them together. See pic below...


5) Re-seal around edges of lights and re-insert.

I think thats it

PeteD

Micky, I do in fact have a UK car but cheers anyway. Thanks for that Boro

PeteD

Right, finally fitted them this morning and the cluster currently looks like this....



The brown wire was already cut so what do I need to do with it??? And as theres currently no bulb in, I gather you can buy fog light bulbs that will flash red????






[Edited by PeteD - 10/18/2003 11:20:02 AM]

[Edited by PeteD - 10/18/2003 11:20:59 AM]

essexscooby

I've bought red fog lightbulbs before from a car spares place (cheap). take the bulb that came out of that holder so you can see what the fitting is like!
Hope this helps ya

Keith
MY00 P1
[url www.P1WOC.co.uk[/url]

PeteD

Thats the plan. But I really need to sort out the wiring

essexscooby

seems like you have different colour wires to the pic above
cant you flick the fog light on and test each terminal on the plug to see which ones have power going to them with a meter?? Might have to do this a few times with the fog light off and on so you dont get confused with the normal rear light
i'm no electrician (and have not fitted STI rears) so could be talking rubbish!
hope this helps

Keith
MY00 P1
www.P1WOC.co.uk

phoenix1

you don't have to cut & join any wires for the foglight. if you have a look at the wiring cluster on the back of the sti lamp you will notice 2 empty block connecters on the end. simply unpick the 2 connecters that opperate the reverse light & click them into the 2 empty blocks. as the car loom has the foglight wires on the end. hey presto your foglight works without cutting wires.

PeteD

But the brown wire on the bulb holder is already cut.....

PeteD

New problem....

Realised last night that the rear lights do not work either Brake lights, indicators and reverse lamp are all ok though?? Do I need to swap the bulbs other from my old clusters???

(Mods please feel free to move this thread now as it is going on longer than I anticipated!!)

[Edited by PeteD - 10/19/2003 9:15:50 AM]

V45DSM

Whats the difference between the Prodrive and Orignial STi clears rears?

Scoobymania

[Edited by V45DSM - 10/19/2003 10:42:27 AM]

PeteD

Right all lights now working properly, thank god!!! I've had some fun this morning with the multi-meter. Last problem is where do I actually get the red bulb I need for the fog light???