D8 Estate Rear Fog Lamp(s)

[steve_earwig]

Here's a thing, I thought I'd put the l/h tail lights I got off ebay on my D8 estate to replace the existing ones that somehow got melted and I found the fog light hole in the back of the new one was blanked off. The connections are there, just no hole. So I got my hole saw on it, job jobbed. Then it occured to me to look at my r/h tail lights, lo and behold that one's blanked off. Out with the hole saw again and I have fog lamps both sides.

What's the point of that then? Saving the cost of a bulb but at the cost of making lhd and rhd drive versions of the same thing? Nuts.

[mjb]

Not sure. Think Dai (or was it Neil?) discovered the same thing on his estate...

[DaiRees]

Yup, 'twas me. By law you only need to have one rear foglight (off side), so I can understand why they only fit one bulb, cost savings and all that, but it escapes me why they feel the need to blank the other one off, that's just nasty!



Edit:
Actually, the following scenario just occured to me, you know the car only has 1 rear foggie but the bulb blows. Whip it out to see what type it is then put the cluster back without the bulb while you nip to halfrauds. 3 weeks later when you remember to get one you can't remember which side it goes and flip a coin, hey presto it's fitted to the near side. Then you fail the MOT, get stopped by plod on the way home for not having a valid MOT and they take the car off you and you end up in court, lose your job 'cos you need a clean license, bank reposesses your house and your missus runs off with her hockey playing girlfriend. So you get arsey and sue Peugeot for not making the rear fogs twatproof ...... This obviously made it to the top of pug's Potential Failure Mode and Effects Analysis so they had to eliminate the possibility..... Dya reckon that's plauisible?

[steve_earwig]

Oops I kind of missed that one for some reason *checks photos for that month* ah yes, my dad was over, a wedding anniversary, crunched D9, then a wedding on the coast, then my bro's family over and trips around the country - looks like I was a tad busy

(that's the third time I've used those photos on here...

Oh, erm, ah

Spot the difference:


Not that I'd have even bothered if I hadn't had the lights apart. While I was at it I also found the backs of them were getting rather corroded (it's funny how any 10-minute job on these cars turns into a 3-hour one ) The bulbs seem to be those stubby 21watt bulbs with the same fitting as an (old) indicator bulb I also enjoyed the way the inner lights only use the tail filament of the stop & tail bulbs

[406Break]

Thats brilliant
But i would connect the fog lights with brake lights
Then every time i brake there's a disco at the back

[puggy]

Your good lady plays hockey then does she Dai

[DaiRees]

Your good lady plays hockey then does she Dai

Nah, it's just most of the girls I know who turned out to have a liking for other girls were hockey players (including one very fit bird who was engaged to 2 of my mates over the years ).

[steve_earwig]

But i would connect the fog lights with brake lights
Then every time i brake there's a disco at the back

There's no feed for the brake lights there, although judging by the way it uses half of the top and tail I suspect there was going to be once. I suppose it would be nice to wire them in but it'd mean running wires all the way from the inside of the car and figuring out a way of connecting them, stuff that, three's enough.

[406Break]

But i would connect the fog lights with brake lights
Then every time i brake there's a disco at the back

There's no feed for the brake lights there, although judging by the way it uses half of the top and tail I suspect there was going to be once. I suppose it would be nice to wire them in but it'd mean running wires all the way from the inside of the car and figuring out a way of connecting them, stuff that, three's enough.

You are right sir, it would be smarter to connect them from switch-2-bulb. But it works aswell if you take the feed from the near brake light
My friends Vauxhall/Opel Omega has it done like that Looks cool IMO