Fog and reversing lights

Initially I had taken the rear oblong lights, but on reflection I preferred the round lights on stand offs, so GD exchanged them.

There needs to be one of each as a minimum. The fog light needs to be red, whilst the reversing light needs to be white - nothing surprising here then. The rear fog light needs to have a tell tale light on the dash and a dedicated switch. The fog and reversing light need to be on the centreline of the body or off set, but the fog light needs to be more than 100 mm from the stop light!

The lights are mounted on shiny GD stand-offs. The positions were marked out on the body using masking tape - minimum height is 250 mm from the ground, maximum for the fog is 1000 mm and 1200 for the reversing light. The IVA is quite specific (this is the IVA as at Dec 2015). However, as my car body is not yet on the chassis, I looked at other blogs for the position. I reckoned that mounting them 15 mm down from the boot opening would be okay.

Lights marked out on masking tape

A 26 mm hole was drilled at each side for the cables and a grommet inserted. Smaller 5 mm holes were drilled at each side of the main holes for fixing.

Holes drilled

Grommet fitted

The screws were not horizontal like the brake and indicator, so holes were drilled at 90 deg to the standard in the light fitting to correct this. The lights were then fitted, sandwiching the stand-offs (note that these are handed) between the body and the lights. Longer screws (45 mm) than supplied were needed for the lights.

Reverse and fog lights fitted