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Jamie84
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Rear lights question.

Post by Jamie84 » Thu Dec 04, 2008 9:42 pm

My old man was in the lotus today with me behind in his car , I noticed that the lights are not functioning properly .

I had them out when I detailed the car and think I may have messed up putting them back in .

So there are 2 rings each side , On the outer rings one half lit up when he hit the break , On both sets the part that lights is on the right side of the outer ring ....confusing I know , but I have gathered that I have one on upside down :oops: .

Okay , so then I noticed that the inner rings dont seem to be doing anything at all even with sidelights on , is this correct :? ?

or is somthing wrong ? cheers .

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Re: Rear lights question.

Post by dezzy » Fri Dec 05, 2008 12:22 am

Inner rings are your rear fog lights. It will probably only be half of it that lights up when you put the rear fogs on. The switch is the lowest one of the 3 light switches on your dash.

What year is your car? On older models (perhaps pre-05 or pre-06) only half of the outer light will light up for braking, so that sounds correct.

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Re: Rear lights question.

Post by Jamie84 » Fri Dec 05, 2008 10:10 pm

yeah only half of the ring lights up on brake , one is upside down though this is easily sorted . Just found it a little strange the inner rings were doing nothing , Its cool watching someone else drive your car for a change 8)

Sometimes you forget how good it looks .

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Re: Rear lights question.

Post by AiD » Sat Dec 06, 2008 1:09 am

If you want the middle rings to light up it looks like it could be easy enough to do, as per here http://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topi ... 20upgrades

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Re: Rear lights question.

Post by Jamie84 » Sat Dec 06, 2008 10:00 am

I think that actually looks pretty cool , whats everyones thoughts on doing this ?

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