hello again folks, heres the rear light mods i promised, may prove usefull to someone one day.
the lights before i started grinding them, as you can see the white wire with the spade connector on it is the first attempt at rear fog lights, but i felt that they were not adequate, nowhere near bright enough.
the small light hanging out is the one i have modified.
after stripping the lights down and using a die grinder with a rotary file tip on it i managed to grind a hole 2mm bigger all round than a standard 21watt indicator bulb.
i used the old indicators as donors for the bulb housing, i just cut them off flush to the back of them.
so heres what your left with after a bit of cleaning up, a nice bit of a bulb holder and a bulb fitting i just happened to have left over from another job.
this is the back of the light casing, the piece that bolts to the car when everything is re-built, i had to cut this out to an oval to allow the plastic holder to sit through at an angle.
i cleaned the lights off, re-built them and cleaned up the area i was gonna stick the new holder to with some MEK cleaner( its a cleaning solution that plumbers use when they are about to bond plastic pipes together), i used some pvc cement(what plumbers use again for bonding plastic pipes), and bonded the holder in place.
once the pvc cement had set i stripped them down again and put a band of self adhesive foam rubber(draught excluder)around the new holder to create a weather proof seal when they are back together as i ground the old one out, you will also notice the brown coloured seal around the lights, this is P-profile exterior draught excluder which in my opinion created a better seal than the original foam seal you normally get on back lights. all in all it took me about 30mins a light to modify with all the tools at hand and they do look the part, a bit better than having a seperate fog light on. but at least now they are fully UK compliant.:bigsmile: