Re: Rear fog question

["Jack Terzian" <jack_terzian@howling.com>]

with two diodes you can get the both light as a brake light and the drivers
light as a fog light.

without causing the others lights to turn on...

I forget were i got the instructions from...

JACK
98 GLX

----- Original Message -----
From: Douglas B. Kuhn, Jr. <ijcdougk@earthlink.net>
To: <jettaglx@igtc.com>
Sent: Wednesday, June 30, 1999 10:05 PM
Subject: Re: Rear fog question


> If you hit the brakes...those lights will light up...I initially was going
> to set them up as fogs as well, but liked the idea of additional brake
> lights. Check out vwvortex.com and look in the forums for some hints on
how
> to wire them up.
>
>
> Doug Kuhn
>
> Visit Salty's Bitter Ale at:
> http://home.earthlink.net/~ijcdougk/
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Big Jim <cyng@lamere.net>
> To: JettaGLX list <jettaglx@igtc.com>
> Sent: Wednesday, June 30, 1999 9:59 PM
> Subject: Rear fog question
>
>
> > Hey, folks.
> >
> >    Been a loooong time since I last posted. My car's been on toy hiatus
> > through some very rough financial times.
> >
> >    But I got some more car toys the other day (thanks, Andy @ ND!).
Which
> > ones? Smoked front signal reflectors and smoked "dummy" reflectors. They
> > match my previously-installed smoked side-marker lights and the OEM
> > smoked taillights. Looks superb on a black Jetta.
> >
> >    The other item I bought was the Euro-spec headlight switch. Oddness,
> > though, with that. I installed it easily, put in the relay jumper bar so
> > allow the front fogs to turn on with the parking lights. Simple. I went
> > to hook up the rear fogs (cutting the holes for the bulbs with a pocket
> > knife was about as difficult as it was stupid, I'll admit), realized I'd
> > forgotten to get that 3-slot plug from the VW folks. Now, here's the
> > oddness.
> >
> >    On the driver's-side, the plug was already there and wired. It looked
> > as though it was waiting only for a bulb. I plugged the bulb in, but the
> > lamp didn't light when it ought. I guess I'm missing a step. I checked
> > the instructions I'd saved from previous emails by leah@erinet.com and
> > tofer@foxinternet.net (via my old pal, Kevin Ng (Mister Badges)). No
> > mention there. My guess? I have to run a wire from jack 12 on the back
of
> > the Euro-spec switch to somewhere in the fuse box. Is this correct? I
> > know I don't have to run it from there to the rear fog, because it's
> > already wired and plugged-in!
> >
> >    So my quest for tomorrow morning is to drive up to the VW parts folks
> > and pick up one of those plugs for the passenger's-side fog. In the
> > meantime, can any of you folks tell me if and how I do need to run a
wire
> > from connector 12 on the headlight switch to somewhere else?
> >
> >    Thanks in advance!
> >
> > -T
> > '84 JettaGLi (rather modified and rather fun) -197,000 miles
> > '95 JettaGLX (slowly achieving its intended styling and ready for rear
> > fogs) -73,000 miles
> >
> > Zip-zap ... zip-zap ... it's Tom ... Tom Boyer ... cyng@lamere.net!
> >          ... who cares?
> >
> >
>