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Rear Fog Lamp

JP_Albin

JP_Albin

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Hi All,

on my 997.1 (MY2005) coupe, I have ONE rear fog light (driver's side) as many cars in UK seem to. I am not sure why Porsche could not have rear fog lights in both rear light clusters. Presumably there must be a spacing in the passenger rear cluster for a fog light for the rest of the world who drive on the other side of the road....

Question is; has anyone tried to fit that additional rear fog light on the passenger side? Maybe there is no wiring anyway in place, which would make this impossible to retrofit...??

Any ideas please?

Thanks in advance.

JP
 
It is a safety thing that there is only one rear fog light, to ensure that brake lights are still clearly visible.
 
There's only one Fog Lamp because it's what they're legally entitled to provide under EU law, and it's on the drivers side because in the UK we drive on the left.
As Terry says above, it's so people don't confuse your Fog lamps with the brake lights being on all the time. (Never mind that all cars have a third brake light)
A lot of other manufacturers provide two Fog lamps (this is decreasing, again due to EU law) and an increasing number just provide a single, centrally mounted one which saves costs as it doesn't matter which side of the road the car gets used on, it'll still be legal.
The socket for a bulb is there it's just that there's no bulb however, putting a bulb in won't make it work. Sockets and wiring are fitted to both sides at the factory but the car is then coded for it's destination country, disabing the circuit to the side which isn't required.
 
Terry, STiG911,

Thank you both very much for your replies!

I see what you are saying and it does make sense. I thought that it might be the manufacturers cutting corners.

Ok, I will move on then and leave that one well alone then.

Many thanks JP
 
You could always run a wire from the rhs fog light to the lhs one if you want them both to light up. I always thought it was a cost thing when there was only one but seems I was wrong (again)

 
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