fog light question Options

[NewOrleans]

i have been wanting to get the fog lights for my ST but was wondering what would need to be done to have em wired up correctly and everytign

[ksporry]

In Europe teh standard models should already have fog lights fitted. I ran into this issue because a garage told me my model failed the MOT (roadworthiness test) due to absence of a fog light. However, he conned me because a car that does not have a fog light and does not have fog light controls, does not require a fog light, but if it has either the light or the controls, it should have the whole installation and it should be working properly.
This guy said I had fog lights but no control. Turns out that he just wanted to make a few pennies extra (because aswitch and wire costs next to nothing). He wired the one of the second brake lights as fog light, which screwed up the light-out indication circuit. So I fixed that but then was left without fog light. So I wired in a new fog light, which is quite easy to do:

Get a fog light from some car accessory shop and mount it to the rear bumper (check your country's regulations on location of the fog light. In the UK that's between 30 and 50 cm above ground level and either right or at centre of the rear bumper).
Run a wire to a switch in teh front (you need only one wire, the other you can connect to chassis directly from the lamp). Wire the switch to the high beam light (I think, because it will actually switch the fog light off when using high beam) via a fuse and you should be good to go. You can double check using the wiring schematics elsewhere on this site...