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Originally Posted by Robert_Nash
I just received my Rear Fog Light ( European Rear Fog Lamp, 2009 370Z - The Z Store, your Datsun & Nissan Z & ZX source! ) and not surprisingly, it came with no instructions of any kind.
I haven't decided if I'm going to do this myself or have a dealer do it for me...from the reading I've done, it's likely that the hardest part will be deciding exactly where to place the on/off switch as it seems the wiring harness is already in place.
Does anyone one have any thoughts on what actually has to be done to install the physical lam assembly? Does the current lens cover simply "pop off" and the replacement slips inside?
Any info would be appreciated. Thanks! |
If you lie down and reach underneath the bumper, on the rear side of the light, you will find the bolts you need to loosen to remove the existing fake fog light. You will also find a wiring harness tail hanging there to plug into your new light.
The wiring for the whole fog lamp system is apparently already present on the car, what we lack in the US is the fog lamp itself (which you just purchased), and the alternate Canadian-spec combination switch unit (which is the pair of sticks that control the wipers and headlights, it's all one unit). The canadian headlight stick has an extra switch to control the fog lights. The BCM (Body Control Module) is what the switch and the foglight are wired to. Since the wiring is all there, I assume the BCM will function correctly if you installed the Canadian switch, but nobody has verified that. I called a dealer in Canada about ordering the switch, it was something like US $380-ish, and I didn't buy one.
So you can either buy the canadian combo switches, or you can just put a regular switch in the center console (by the heated seat switches) and wire it up manually. The +12V for the fog light comes out of the wiring harness as an orange wire connected to pin 24 of the BCM, which is in the passenger footwell. You'd have to cut that wire and route it to your custom switch, and then also wire an ignition-switched 12V power line from elsewhere to the other side of your switch.
Nobody in the US has done either yet
afaik, or at least they haven't mentioned it here, so you're kinda in new territory.