Rear light cluster - the plot thickens

Thanks again for the help on the strange behaviour from my Golf's lights and indicators, I thought it was pretty much sorted, but I'm now a bit baffled.

At no point was I able to get my front fog lights working, but the back ones were okay - I thought.....

My mistake was only monitoring the drivers side rear fog light, on a closer inspection, there wasn't even a bulb in the rear passengers side holder.

But stranger still, the aperture in which the bulb sits, when you replace the cluster in position, is blocked! You couldn't put a bulb in there if you wanted to.

It appears to have been manufactured that way, I tried pressing it, in the hope that the circular piece of plastic obscurring the aperture would drop out, but it was solid.

Does anyone know what that's about?

I put the bulb from the other cluster in the holder and it works okay, but none of this makes the front fog lights work, is it possible with both rear bulbs fitted they would miraculously spring into life, or are they an unrelated problem?

Again, thanks.

All the best, Angus Manwaring.

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Quite a lot of cars only have one rear fog light fitted. There's nothing unusual about it - you _could_ hack things about to get 2 rear fogs, but it's not worth it.

You are using the correct switch to switch on the front fogs, aren't you? - they'll be on a separate switch which will be completely independent from the rear fogs. Also worth noting is that you can't switch on the fronts whilst you're on main beam, only dipped.

Where are these front fogs located? - I'm assuming it's a MkII - just asking because most MkI and II Golfs had 'driving lights' fitted as the inner pair, but some had fogs. Or are your fogs fitted in the front bumper?

Obviously, I'm way off the mark if it's a MkIII or IV.

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SteveH

From someone who has done this in the past... The plugs are attached to the lampholders with the correct orientation, I had some weird results from one plug being plugged in upside down....

Tom

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Tom Burton

I didn't appreciate that.... I might just do some hacking. :)

Hmmm.... a separate switch, huh? :) I'd assumed they were all on the same one. There seems to be only one foglight fuse. I turn on the rear foglights by turning the light switch to main beam (dipped) and then pulling it (the switch!) out. I have a manual which I will re-read, which confused me a bit on this issue.

They are on the front bumper, 2 little square-ish lights next to each indicator, and its a Mk III.

All the best, Angus Manwaring. (for e-mail remove ANTISPEM)

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Rear fogs usually have a switch showing a lamp with three horizontal bars signifying the beam, fronts have a lamp with three downward sloping lines for the beam, IYSWIM. They're not always located near each other, just to confuse things. (On the 155 the rear fogs are on the end of the indicator stalk, with the fronts on a switch down near the handbrake - however, on my MkI Golf the switchs are one under the other on the side of the dash, ISTR).

They're definitely front fogs, then. Better check the manual again.

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Steve, at somebody's suggestion I had a look under the front fog-light lenses. Hmmmm....... nothing there, they're dummies.

..and yes, I could relate to them. :)

Thanks for your help.

All the best, Angus Manwaring. (for e-mail remove ANTISPEM)

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Sorry, but,

Bwahahahahahaha.

Actually, you might have some info. for me.....

How can I get an old A500+ hooked up to my network here at home? - and is there a VNC server available for the Amiga?

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SteveH

Great, a Golf with front fogs that don't work. It's a drivers dream :-D

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Peter

Pity they are not available for BWM's

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SimonJ

Ouch!

A network connector is fairly easy with a 600 or 1200 (with a TCP stack) because they have that PCMCIA connector, providing their accelerator doesn't disable it.

I think on an A500 you'd be looking at using a program like Term or Ncomm and going via the serial connector which out to get you connected to 1 pc.

Depending on what you want to do it might be worth getting a cheap 1200 at a bootsale or Ebay and fitting it with a cheap PCMCIA network card.

But for a better informed answer I'd advise you ask on demon.ip.support.amiga or comp.sys.amiga.misc

Below is a little bit of associated knowlege I have copied and pasted from d.i.s.a

That's the best advice. Apart from the speed issues, some Windows variants fall over when you try to run to serial TCP/IP connections simultaneously (one to the Amiga and one to the net). I covered setting up a serial TCP/IP link between an Amiga and a PC in AA16, but I'd seriously suggest you use ethernet. A card for an A1200 costs £30-35, a PCI card for a PC costs a fiver. Add a pound or two for a crossover cable and you'll have a much faster and more stable link than you could ever hope for with serial.

All the best, Angus Manwaring. (for e-mail remove ANTISPEM)

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