Re: Rear fog question

["Douglas B. Kuhn, Jr." <ijcdougk@earthlink.net>]

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

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----- 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?
>
>