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Offline CaptainBlack

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Rear Fog Light
« on: October 02, 2016, 06:02:40 PM »
I see the manual refers - mainly - to a rear fog light and - sometimes - to rear fog lights.

Whilst it looks like there are two, mine only has the right one working. Does anyone know if that's right?
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Re: Rear Fog Light
« Reply #1 on: October 02, 2016, 11:33:43 PM »
Typical for UK market cars of all makes, in my experience.  The law requires only one, so only one works - it saves 50p on manufacturing costs.
I would check against my own car, but it's still a long way away apparently...
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Re: Rear Fog Light
« Reply #2 on: October 03, 2016, 08:47:35 AM »
Il check mine for you later!
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Re: Rear Fog Light
« Reply #3 on: October 03, 2016, 10:24:09 AM »
I personally imported a Golf GTI MkI in '83, which only had one rear fog.  Popping the light cover off revealed no bulb in the other side - fitted a bulb, and hey presto, two rear fogs!  Clearly the cost of a bulb is significant when you're building tens of thousands of cars.  When I replaced it with a Quattro coupe a year later, it also came with just one fog - but investigation of the rear light mounting PCB revealed a more complicated fix, so I went with just one.
I suspect the Abarth/Mazda electronics are a whole lot more complex now so doubt there's an easy way to grow another one.
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