I have a rear fog light out. Changed to a new bulb and it still won't work. Checked the contacts for anything obvious and nothing showed up. Tried a second new bulb. Nothing. Am I missing something? The one on the driver side works fine.

Any ideas would be appreciated....

Wig

Hi.
If your drivers side works, then you have no problem. You're only supposed to have one, on the drivers side.

Years ago, some european car companies offered one or two lamps -- as I remember back then ('70's and early '80s), Jaguars and other english cars (Land-Rover) were a common example for dual foglights, while continent makes like MB and Alpha Romeo had only one. Later, around mid-'80's, Volvo started offering foglights on their USA-market cars, and they had dual foglights.

But around 1991 or '92, most companies started to only install one foglight, on the drivers side -- Volvo followed suit, and has only had a working foglight on the driver's side since that time, at least in cars for the USA-market.

In many models, Volvo retains the socket for the other side, but just didn't include the electrical conductors in the wiring harness. In my '93 240's, the hole for the socket is present, but the actual socket (with electric tabs) is left out.

Ha! My problem was that I had no problem! I gave your explanation to my wife--it is her car-- and she found it unacceptable. This, she said, proved there were no women involved in the design of the XC

Thanks so much. I could have wrestled with this for days and weeks without the fine answers I got on the board

Believe that rear fog lights are only supposed to be one. Believe it or not that is the way some of the earlier models are. Folks will think it is the brakes or so I have heard. Strange for sure.

dick

I gave this answer to Ken too.

Ha! My problem was that I had no problem! I gave your explanation to my wife--it is her car-- and she found it unacceptable. This, she said, proved there were no women involved in the design of the XC

Thanks so much. I could have wrestled with this for days and weeks without the fine answers I got on the board

Wig