Fwd: (lights) Why you should help out your friends.

[roccit_53 at scirocco.cs.uoguelph.ca (C Boyko)]

On 8:26:55 pm 10/16/05 Chris Bennett <scirocco16vr32@gmail.com> wrote:
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Chris Bennett <scirocco16vr32@gmail.com>
> Date: Oct 16, 2005 5:22 PM
> Subject: Re: (lights) Why you should help out your friends.
> To: Phil Boeye <gooddane66@yahoo.com>
> Cc: scirocco-l@scirocco.org
>
>
> Kinda... if you don't sever the foil run and relay for brakes then it
> is just an extra parking light.  Actually these are European rear Fogs
> supposedly set up on a seperate switch and all that via the wiring
> harness--to do it on a US spec car you have to do it a little
> differently.
>
> This example was an extra set of brake lights I believe.
>
> I posted on this a WHILE back... sometime around Cincy.  I did
> something very similar with the 87.  I prefer it without on the 85.
>
> There is also one out there on the LED brake bulbs, somewhere.  I have
> no idea where it is, but I do know that you have to enlarge the hole a
> bit and there is a heat problem.  I don't think it is worth it.
>
> Chris
>
> On 10/16/05, Phil Boeye <gooddane66@yahoo.com> wrote:
> >  Is this the same thing you're talking about here?
> >
> >  http://www.scirocco16v.com/tech/brake_light_mod.htm
> >
> 
Yeah, my "mod" was a "no-tech" version, just cut out the hole and add a
bulb. No wiring. An extra brake light would be cool too, but the extra tail
light (running light?) suits me just fine, and that unused lens is a nice
bright one too.

cathy