Tomoke24

Tomoke24

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Hi All,

After living in Germany for a couple of years, the local mechanic switched my rear fog light around (as they drive on the wrong side of the road). I've recently made it back and would like to swap them again. Does anyone know a quick way? for example, could I just swap some fuses around rather than re-wire the whole thing?

In addition, anywhere good for an MOT around Ipswich?

Many thanks,
Tom
 
Did your machanic swap the reversing lamp with corresponding wiring over with your fog lamp, so you now have fog lamp on the uk near side and reverse lamp on the off side ?.
I would think that was the easiest way of doing it without leaving any holes or making new holes, if that was the case it should be a simple job to swap things back to original by unplugging light sockets and putting lights and cables back to original sides.
 
Scooby22 said:
Did your machanic swap the reversing lamp with corresponding wiring over with your fog lamp, so you now have fog lamp on the uk near side and reverse lamp on the off side ?.
I would think that was the easiest way of doing it without leaving any holes or making new holes, if that was the case it should be a simple job to swap things back to original by unplugging light sockets and putting lights and cables back to original sides.
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Yeh this is what I assume they did. So I'll just try and re-trace the wiring until can swap them and wire them back the opposite side. I just wondered if I could simply swap the fuses and the light housing to give the same effect.

Great dog btw, was thinking of getting one myself. Torn between an OES and an Australia Shepherd.
 
Tomoke24 said:
Yeh this is what I assume they did. So I'll just try and re-trace the wiring until can swap them and wire them back the opposite side. I just wondered if I could simply swap the fuses and the light housing to give the same effect.

Great dog btw, was thinking of getting one myself. Torn between an OES and an Australia Shepherd.
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Swapping the fuses won't change the functionality of the light. I seem to think that there are connectors for the reverse and foglight on both sides of the chassis and the fog connector on on the left is unused on UK spec and the opposite for the reverse (LR would only need one loom then and it could be used on LH and RH drive vehicles). It may be worth a crawl underneath to see if there are unused connectors in the area and look at the colour coding. If I'm right then you may just need to swap the lenses and connect the lamps to the unused connectors.
 
Wiring diagram shows both, but whether they are both there is a different matter
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Not sure about the later vehicles, but earlier ones have the rear lights connected to the loom behind the cover in the RH rear side of the tub. This would be a good place to swap connectors, meaning you would only have to change the lenses on the outside (if your reverse and fog lights are the same size)
 
zeaphod said:
Not sure about the later vehicles, but earlier ones have the rear lights connected to the loom behind the cover in the RH rear side of the tub. This would be a good place to swap connectors, meaning you would only have to change the lenses on the outside (if your reverse and fog lights are the same size)
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Again my experience is with older models but they have wiring for both reverse and fog on each side. So to swap back it would just be a case of removing the internal corner panels and swapping the connector from fog (red/yellow) to reverse (green/brown) and then swapping the lenses over. The whole thing on the older models should take you about 10 min. Not sure about the newer ones but I would expect a similar principle.
 
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