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1664 wrote:
AdrianC wrote:Nope - three-piece flexible plastic, just the same as yours.
5 piece...

Ah. Wonder if the 3-piece is deeper. (Ours is currently a 4-piece, and working on becoming a 5-piece)

and I must be lucky with campsites and ferries :lol:

actually thinking about, I'm not lucky with ferries.....

<grin> Last nights ferry was interesting. Kept waking up thinking I was going to roll out of the (upper) bunk, since the boat was wobbling about so much. Not an unpleasant wobble-about, no slamming or banging, just quite a bit of it. A little bit of a surprise to get on a Greek boat between Italy and Albania - and find most of the internal signage in Swedish!
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I'll tell you my ferry saga over a cold beer one day :wink:
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Well due to the cr@p weather and the wiring being somewhat tricky it's taken a while but I have now wired the fogs as per the Haynes Manual fed off the original VW dash fog light switch. The ignition/engine running and side lights must both be on in order for them to work.

Side lights and fogs

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Headlights and fogs

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I like it :D
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Looks sweet Bren old chap :ok

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Snap , Snap , Snap...
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You aligned yours up yet Niel? I tried aligning mine yesterday in the early evening by 'line of sight'. Switched them on briefly when I got back from the pub and they were all over the damn place!! I'm going to attempt a late night adjustment later on tonight - I couldn't have adjusted a shoe lace last night......
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Bren the funny thing is i still need to ajust mine as well , i say iam going to do it tonight for the last two weeks ..
but the one thing that keeps coming in the way , BEER !!!

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Whoever has done this can you answer me a few questions please?

Which lights did you buy and where from please?

Any pics of the rears? How are they fixed to the spoiler etc?

And where should they be pointing when lined up?

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Cruz wrote:Whoever has done this can you answer me a few questions please?

Which lights did you buy and where from please? I found mine on ebay a while back, they are the SPARKRITE SRFL001. Niel, aka Hakuna 'Lucky' Matata saw this thread and had a scout on ebay and found a guy in Bulgaria selling similar lights for half what I paid; the only difference we found seems to be the rears of mine are metal and Niel's are plastic. PM him and he'll be able to point you in the right direction - you can try searching for the SPARKRITE ones but they'll probably be more expensive if and when you find some.

Any pics of the rears? How are they fixed to the spoiler etc? They come with brackets. Niel had additional bespoke brackets made to mount his, I fixed mine directly to the spoiler, but it's a tight fit.
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And where should they be pointing when lined up? Still working on that one; ideally I suppose they should illuminate a similar portion of the road surface ahead as the headlights do in normal driving conditions
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Brilliant, thanks

I take it you wired them up with a relay?

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Exactly as per the Haynes Manual diagram shown on the previous page of this thread. Relay in position 7 of van fusebox.
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Ah. My van is early so I will have to add one

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hakuna matata wrote:Bren the funny thing is i still need to ajust mine as well , i say iam going to do it tonight for the last two weeks ..
but the one thing that keeps coming in the way , BEER !!!

neil. :rofl
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Cruz wrote:Ah. My van is early so I will have to add one
You have to add one even if your van's a late one - and mod the wiring.

Unless VW fitted fogs to your van in the factory in which case everything will be there already....
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