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]

So I understand there were two different housings, with two different connection arrangements. I only have the one harness which has two wires in it.

Dave, I can certainly just send you some of the single white/green stripe wire when I get it if that what you want, but it would not look stock.

I think the best answer is to make the harness with both wires and let each person put whatever end terminal on it they need. The wire with a terminal on it would not fit through the hollow housing mount anyway, the terminal must have been installed later.

I need help figuring out where to connect the switch end, it seems like it should attach the the foglight switch which has 3 male tabs on it. The harness has a MALE 1/4" wire terminal and will not attach. Maybe it goes to a piggyback connector on the fuseblock for the foglights?

Then I am ready to start production...

[davep]

I need help figuring out where to connect the switch end, it seems like it should attach the the foglight switch which has 3 male tabs on it. The harness has a MALE 1/4" wire terminal and will not attach. Maybe it goes to a piggyback connector on the fuseblock for the foglights?

The wiring diagram for fog lights shows a white/green wire attached to post 87 of the switch. This would be for existing front fog lights. So I would say that the rear harness should be a piggyback to double-mount the two wires on a single post.
Perhaps a European manual might explain the rear fog connections better.
For my own use, a ground wire is useless since there is no way to connect it to the light. It would just make adding the harness to the existing wiring that much more difficult.