Angled Rear Lights - Money Saving Tip

[davidimurray]

I bought a set of NAS landrover lights for the back of my roadster like these -


Now when it comes to the fog light this needs to be angled, and you can buy angled housings for about £13 but being tight I had a nosy through the screwfix catalogue and found this -

http://www.screwfix.com/prods/15872/...pe-350-x-100mm

The mounting pods fit perfectly inside the tube and you can easily cut them with a mitre saw (11 degrees). Pack the pod out with some spacers so it is vertical, then slide the cut piece of tube over the pod. GLue in place then smooth the edge over with some body filler and job should be a good one and nice and cheap. I've cut my tubes but not yet fitted them as I'm waiting to get the car on the floor - test fitting they look like this (you will have to turn your head 90 degrees for the first pic as I can't seem to rotate it!) the grren line is my plumb line -

[CaptainCrash1971]

Nice one David, I seem to spend half my life trying to find cheaper ways of doing stuff. As tight as a sharks ar$e and proud of it.

[DaddyA]

Just for info,

the fog light needs to be E marked and have an 'F' on there some where. The examiner had a good look at the fog light. Said it was the only one that needed the 'E' mark. Just thought I'd add that.

[HandyAndy]

I,d missed this thread

But as I,ve decided to change my rear lights to the NAS type, came across the same problem of making the fog light vertical ( also doing the reverse light vertical so it all looks right etc),

So, Thanks for the locost tips David .........now off down to screwfix
David, do you have any photos of the finished result?

cheers
andy

[davidimurray]

Hi Andy

Not got got a finished pic yet. Been getting all the lights fitted up and wired up over the past week so only getting around to the surrounds now.

The only problem with the NAS lights is the fog light as mentioned above. CBS do an LED fog light that is F marked in a similar style - http://www.cbsonline.co.uk/product/E..._REAR_FOG_RL42 the only problem is the price at £42 inc vat -

[HandyAndy]

Gulp, £42 for 1 light.....might have to have a rethink then, I,ve got the NAS indicators & tail/brake lights but still need to purchase the reverse & Fog lights,
Hmmm, best start hunting around I guess, my wallet would dis own me if I paid £42 for 1 light

Thanks for the tip on the screwfix tube, got some this afternoon.

cheers
andy

[davidimurray]

I know what you mean Andy. A lot of people seem to go for the square style lights for fog and reverse. I really don't want to pay that much for a lamp but at the same time I want o keep the unifrorm style - plus I got some gift vouchers for CBS for Xmas

[HandyAndy]

Originally Posted by davidimurray

I know what you mean Andy. A lot of people seem to go for the square style lights for fog and reverse.

I,ve seen some fog & reverse lights (NAS style) on fleabay for £16 which includes the pod, it says its E marked & claims to be "SVA" ( not IVA ) compliant, am I right in thinking then that these would fail IVA?

I have some cheap square style fog / reverse lights but they too don,t have an "F" mark......am I missing something?

cheers
andy

[davidimurray]

That's the trap I fell into.

For SVA they only needed to be E marked.

For IVA they must be E marked and also have an F or B mark on them.

I've got original Wipac light units and the fog is E marked but not B or F. I've contacted quite a few sellers of similar units and I've yet to find any B or F marked ones apart from the LED units that CBS sell.

[gus]

I to got caught out by this one at IVA. I bought my lights from bolt on bits on ebay.

Through a local automotive electrical retailer I found that the following carries the correct markings, and fits perfectly into the 95mm housing that was supplied originally.

Durite rear fog lamp, Part no. 0-767-06. Cost about £20 from memory, so not to bad overall.

Cheers

Gus