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Driving/foglamp install irritation

So, I get this bright idea to install a set of PIAA 900 fog/driving lamps on the car; maybe keep me from having so many close calls with very large cloven hooved ruminants. I measured the left opening where the factory driving lamps go and it is large enough to hold the units in a way they would look decent. Only had to trim the bumper cover a bit. Fine. Get it all trimmed out, mount the bracket and put the lamp in. Looks faboo. I pull the right dummy lens off and discover this large, thick cylindrical socket protrusion from the frame. So much for mounting the lamp in that opening. What is the socket thing? Near as I can figure it's some kind of jig alignment point/support from assembly. Any reason I shouldn't cut the thing off? I already stuffed the lamps under the bumper for now, but they look like hell there and I want to go with the original plan of putting them in the factory position.

--TW

Reply to
Tundra Wookie
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huh, factory driving lamps on a VW?

on the left side, yes?

Ah, your car's an A3 Golf/Jetta or a Passat 3B?

Can you spell threaded socket to screw in the front tow eye?

Almost.

Well...

If my guess about your car was right the factory _fog_ lights only take the inner section of the cut-out, the part between the fog light and the indicator is still covered by a dummy then.

In"guess what car I hacked up"go

Reply to
Ingo Braune

That's where the tow loop screws in. Usually somewhere near the spare or in the same case as the jack is there should be a steel loop or eyelet with threads on it. If you need to tow the car this gets screwed into that socket and the car gets hooked up to this tow eyelet. If you still have the owners manual its in there....

PMW

Reply to
Paul Meier-Wang

Whatever you want to call those crappy DOT spec auxillary lights that are next to the turn signals on an A3 Jetta.

Any car that is designed with the intent of being towed... no comment. It's like a Harley coming with tie down straps from the factory. I probably would have put two and two together had I had more light and seen that it was threaded and my poor, frost-addled brain attached those threads to the screw eye in the spare tire tool kit. (As it is, I can't tell if I burned the tip of my finger or it got frost bite)

Yeah, yeah, I've had the car since it was new, this is the first hack on it. If we had decent lighting standards in the country, I wouldn't need to add lighting to be able to see the 750Kg creatures that have a bad habit of walking into the bright lights.

Beste gruess

--TW

Reply to
Tundra Wookie

I don't know if you got different fogs on A3s over there, but I have to admit that the E-Code ones on A3s (might be the same as they'er fog lights, not headlights) are not exactly famous here, too.

I don't know - the front tow hook is not intended to tow an VW behind your motor-home - simply because such a task is illegal in europe - we have curves over here, you know. ;-) It's primary task is to tow the car in case of a breakdown.

Don't they? You know, I had the chance to observe the All Japanese Harley Meeting at Nagasaki, wouldn't believe what I've seen.

[does like the weather "over there"] [...] [does not like the lighting standards in his country]

Why don't you just move over here, fork out more than half of what your employer pays for you for mandatory insurances and taxes and enjoy the winter where it's raining instead of snowing? ;-^

Schönen Gruß, Ingo

Reply to
Ingo Braune

The fogs are the same optics but the mountings are different because our bumpers are different.

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Matt B.

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