morgan 0 Posted March 16, 2005 does anyone know how these USA style lights are fitted and if the tailgates in the states have a special recess in them. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
gibber 0 Posted March 16, 2005 Yes they do have a special recess! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Ford 0 Posted March 16, 2005 They did a piece in the sprinter some time ago on doing this to UK cars. I will see if I can dig it out. I think Kevhawire did this to his car (third brake light) but it is on the interior rear window, looks better this way imo. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Henny 0 Posted March 16, 2005 there's also some wires running to the light which you'd have to run if you're thinking of doing this mod... Running cables through the tailgate to the US spec light is NOT fun.... :| It's much easier if you do a Kev style mod though... 8) Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
G60Jet 1 Posted March 16, 2005 if your car is lowered then the american third brake light is to low to see from the second car behind you, which is the main reason for them, put one on the center of the screen at the top. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
gibber 0 Posted March 16, 2005 if your car is lowered then the american third brake light is to low to see from the second car behind you, which is the main reason for them, put one on the center of the screen at the top. What? Where you got that from, you can see mine fine on my US spec C! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Ford 0 Posted March 16, 2005 there's also some wires running to the light which you'd have to run if you're thinking of doing this mod... Oh yeah, nasty, don't you have to run it to the roof then down to the tail... Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Henny 0 Posted March 16, 2005 yup, run the wires from the normal brake lights, up under the C pillar trim, under the roof cloth, through the rubber boot into the tail gate, and then down inside the metal skins of the boot lid into the bottom bit... not nice to do... Gotta do it again this weekend for a little toy on H-YYU... :| Both of 'em are thick cables too... :( Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
G60Jet 1 Posted March 16, 2005 if your car is lowered then the american third brake light is to low to see from the second car behind you, which is the main reason for them, put one on the center of the screen at the top. What? Where you got that from, you can see mine fine on my US spec C! The Seat Cordoba has one in the same position as the American Spec Corrado, you can only just see it through the car infronts screens. I know cos i commented on it when i was in my G/fs 206CC. so you put it on a LOWERED C and its even lower, making it hard to see from the third car prospective. thats why if you car is lowered, i'd still it at the top of the rear screen. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
billinjah 0 Posted March 16, 2005 Seat Coradaba what is this a spanish cordoba? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
G60Jet 1 Posted March 16, 2005 Seat Coradaba what is this a spanish cordoba? thats what i ment to type lol, but its actually a Toledo i bet i spelt that wrong too. (you know the Leon with a boot/saloon variant, not a Ibiza with a boot/saloon variant) Spelling was never my strong point, Can we have a spell checker on here please. I'm the F7 generation. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Posted March 16, 2005 These 3 brake lights are mounted right below the licence plate lights and you will have to wire them up and cut a hole in the rear hatch. I have to give credit to VW as they did a good job mounting this light and it doesn't stick out at all. In North America the rear fog lights are not used so on my car I wired them to act as extra brake lights. Where I live the average driver probably has about 3 years under their belt and we give away licences like they are going out of style so the more brake lights you have on the rear the better... http://members.shaw.ca/vr6_corrado/Tails1.jpg The area the third brake light is mounted in is also no flat but very rounded so it may be a problem to mount another one there. I checked the price from a buddy and trade price on this is about $79 CAD which is around 35 GBP (My keyboard doesn't have a key for a pound sign). I'm sure this would be easy to find used in North America as most Corrado's die front end first here. If you guys want better pics of this light me know and I will snap some more. Cheers, Dennis Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Tempest 0 Posted March 17, 2005 And just so that everyone knows what the US-spec 3rd brake light looks like again, I couldn't resist but to use as an example my US-spec Rado :lol: Tempest Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
gibber 0 Posted March 18, 2005 Looks quite visable to me! :roll: @ G60Jet, Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Cougar 0 Posted March 22, 2005 As far as being visable from the second car, I think it was more intended to be an attention getter more, it's not really that much higher than the tails. I agree with Insane, that's how mine is set up as well. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Kevin Bacon 5 Posted March 26, 2005 Running cables through the tailgate to the US spec light is NOT fun.... :| It's much easier if you do a Kev style mod though... 8) You must mean this, LOL! Much better from a visibility point of view. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
ben16v 0 Posted March 26, 2005 how dirty is your car in that first pick ? :shock: Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
20v turbo 0 Posted March 27, 2005 running the wire's is a pain in the arse but thats the easy bit ,its having the ollox to just cut a hole out of the tailgate right first time thats hard 8),here's a pic of mine. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites