Rear Fog Lights, Only One Working.

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Turbo
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Only one of my rear fog lights are working, the offside one.
The manual seems to read that this is correct saying right hand drive cars have the right hand one ( No 16 ) and left hand drive cars have the left hand one that work ( No 15 ), but when I look under the bumper both sides have a wiring harness going to them.
No pun intended but can anybody shed any light on this?
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Most of my previous cars have had only the offside rear fog light in operation so without checking I would say all is good👍
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I agree but it raises the question of why does it have a wiring harness connected to it?
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Turbo wrote: Sun Apr 28, 2019 3:24 pm I agree but it raises the question of why does it have a wiring harness connected to it?
Maybe it's cheaper mounting a harness on both sides, as they need to do this depending if it's either RHD or LHD.
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santa wrote: Sun Apr 28, 2019 4:19 pm
Turbo wrote: Sun Apr 28, 2019 3:24 pm I agree but it raises the question of why does it have a wiring harness connected to it?
Maybe it's cheaper mounting a harness on both sides, as they need to do this depending if it's either RHD or LHD.
Yes that stands to reasoning
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I seem to remember that JT has previously posted a reply to this question.
Two fog lights are illegal as they could be confused with brake lights.
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Brum1955 wrote: Sun Apr 28, 2019 5:19 pm I seem to remember that JT has previously posted a reply to this question.
Two fog lights are illegal as they could be confused with brake lights.
Not illegal but it was a recommendation and one that made sense.
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What happens if you are driving on the continent? The fog light will be on the wrong side.
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Strangways wrote: Tue Apr 30, 2019 7:13 am What happens if you are driving on the continent? The fog light will be on the wrong side.
Just swap the connections over and use the redundant one if you're that bothered 8-) .
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Strangways wrote: Tue Apr 30, 2019 7:13 am What happens if you are driving on the continent? The fog light will be on the wrong side.
"Two eye" is only illegal in "Brexitland" so no problemos for continental cars. :lol:
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