914 Rear Fog Lamp Installation with details & Photo's, Only winning cars have them, BLing, Bling. Options

[TJB/914]

Hi Guys,

I just finished drilling (2) 6mm holes & (1) 3mm hole in by trunk to mount my "Rear Fog Light" factory accessory. I like it, makes my car different from all the others. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/pray.gif)

Here's a few pictures to show details of the U.S.A. issue rear fog lamp I installed. I got a Euro fog lamp assembly from Gustl (thanks Gustl-aka-Wolfgang) & put everything together using the satin black U.S. housing with the Euro lens because I thought it looked better. One of the brackets to mount is still available from Porsche, but the exterior bracket is NLA. The exterior bracket I got from Gustl was a surprise, it's made of stainless steel.

I'll post a number of photo's in a few days showing lots of details & differences. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/popcorn[1].gif) Hope you guys enjoy.

Tom
BTW Pat: I measured a lot before drilling the holes.

[JeffBowlsby]

I picked up the harness last night, I am sure it will not be a problem to fab these up. Thanks Mike! (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smilie_pokal.gif) I do have some questions though:

1. the cockpit end is a 2.5mm male wire terminal, I am guessing it attaches to the fog light switch on the dash, can anyone verify before IO go tearing into my dash to confirm? Seem like an odd wire termional for that.

2. How does the harness attach to the fog light assembly? I assume it goes through rubber grommets in the tailpanel and foglight housing, but are both wires tinned and screwed down for the electrical connection or is there a terminal on each wire? I saw the photos in the early posts, they dont show the ground wire

The only challenge I see is fishing 20 feet of wiring through 20 feet of heat shrink tubing...

[TJB/914]

I picked up the harness last night, I am sure it will not be a problem to fab these up. Thanks Mike! (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smilie_pokal.gif) I do have some questions though:

1. the cockpit end is a 2.5mm male wire terminal, I am guessing it attaches to the fog light switch on the dash, can anyone verify before IO go tearing into my dash to confirm? Seem like an odd wire termional for that.

2. How does the harness attach to the fog light assembly? I assume it goes through rubber grommets in the tailpanel and foglight housing, but are both wires tinned and screwed down for the electrical connection or is there a terminal on each wire? I saw the photos in the early posts, they dont show the ground wire

The only challenge I see is fishing 20 feet of wiring through 20 feet of heat shrink tubing...

Hi Jeff,

Put me on the list for a wire harness & let me know how much to send $___?

The connection wire into the housing was a short wire about 12" long that threads through the fog light housing then through a little grommett in the sheet metal into the trunk. I was just going to connect the wires at this location, but a simple wire connector would be great. Here's a photo of two fog light housings that might clear up the connection. The euro one (white/green) wire is similiar to the U.S. one that had the wire missing. Hope that helps, but this is just my guess.


Tom