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Laws and Diodes? 900

posted by  someone claiming to be tjts1 on  Fri Apr 21 07:04 CST 2006 [RELATED]

The diodes are not necessary if you are just switching the wire. I forgot to mention that in 90 and later wagons, volvo eliminated the fog light socket at the top of the passenger side tail light so some drilling is requied. Othewise just find a passenger side tail light from an earlier wagon. Thats what I did. Also all wagons come prewired for a passenger side fog light which is not plugged in from the factory. Having two rear fog lights would be illegal in europe but is perfectly fine in the US. The EU law says that every car is required to have a rear fog light on the driver side only. The idea is if you are aproaching a car from the rear in the fog you will know which side the driver is sitting on (UK cars for example) and therefore aware of his blind spots. I don't know about that but anyway.

If you are just switching the wires you light output for the brake lights or the fog lights does not change. Both the fog light and brake light filaments are 21w.
Justin






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