Rear fog lights?

PaulHR

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North Hampshire
Today's stupid question, is my coupe supposed to have 2 rear foglights or just one on drivers side?
Theres a functional bulb on the nearside but I'm damned if I can make it light up. :x
 
I may well be wrong, but I think in order to get the N/S light to work then it needs to be coded in. Mad!
 
Thanks for that. As far as I can deduce the right hand "fog light" only works as a additional brake light with its partner when you brake really hard ie when the abs cuts in. So in short it's not a fog light!
 
PaulHR said:
Thanks for that. As far as I can deduce the right hand "fog light" only works as a additional brake light with its partner when you brake really hard ie when the abs cuts in. So in short it's not a fog light!
Does it say that in the handbook? Not heard it before.
I know the pre-facelift E85s have two-part brake lights that only fully light up under hard braking (unless coded differently).
 
Here you go, from my owner's manual.
 

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You can always splice a cable in. For the pre-facelift cars, you only have one reverse light. So you normally feed a cable to the other reverse light (so you get dual).
The brake light (number 6) seems pretty pointless, so you could always unplug this and feed a cable from the rear left (number 5) to the rear right (number 6), giving a dual set up.
 
I'm happy to leave it as is now I know that it's as intended. Originally it was a panic question as the car was due for a MOT and I was sure if the mot man was expecting to see two fog lights. He wasn't. 👍
 
PaulHR said:
I'm happy to leave it as is now I know that it's as intended. Originally it was a panic question as the car was due for a MOT and I was sure if the mot man was expecting to see two fog lights. He wasn't. 👍

Either way, MOT man wouldn't know, unless he was very clued up with e85/e86 cars.
So many cars are asymmetrical with lights... for reverse and fog I mean. So long as one lights up, you're good :thumbsup:
 
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