Forum Vendor has Rear Fog Light and CF Front Emblem!

[SoCal 370Z]

370Z Source is now selling the 370Z rear fog light and a CF Front Emblem!

A member here has seen the CF front emblem in person and provided feedabck on this thread: Don't Buy This

[theDreamer]

My question for this is, do we just pop off the black out panel and there are wires setup for us?

[SoCal 370Z]

Originally Posted by theDreamer

My question for this is, do we just pop off the black out panel and there are wires setup for us?

The wires, are to be done by us since we have no fog light switch on our turn signal stalk. I was thinking about the vacant switch on the center console, but would like to get a factory, or factory matching switch to the heated seats switches, in order to activate the fog light.

[jbbrann]

Originally Posted by SoCal 370Z

I was thinking about the vacant switch on the center console, but would like to get a factory, or factory matching switch to the heated seats switches, in order to activate the fog light.

That's what I was thinking as well. Any idea if the third switch is used for anything on the JDM Z?

[rednek01]

Originally Posted by SoCal 370Z

The wires, are to be done by us since we have no fog light switch on our turn signal stalk. I was thinking about the vacant switch on the center console, but would like to get a factory, or factory matching switch to the heated seats switches, in order to activate the fog light.

Maybe I am over simplifying this but why wouldnt you just wire it inline with your parking lamps or brake lights? The wires are already ran you just tap into them! Seems a little easier to me and it wont run your battery down when your in a hurry and forget to turn of a switch mounted on your center console.

[wstar]

Originally Posted by rednek01

Maybe I am over simplifying this but why wouldnt you just wire it inline with your parking lamps or brake lights? The wires are already ran you just tap into them! Seems a little easier to me and it wont run your battery down when your in a hurry and forget to turn of a switch mounted on your center console.

Because a rear fog light is *not* supposed to be on all the time. You only turn it on when you're actually in very low visibility situations, like dense fog. With normal visibility it will annoy and confuse other drivers, it will be at least as bright as a lit up brake light, possibly moreso.

Oh and as for the switch, I'm planning to wire it to an ignition-controlled power source, so there won't be any concern about leaving it on to drain the battery.

[rednek01]

Originally Posted by wstar

Because a rear fog light is *not* supposed to be on all the time. You only turn it on when you're actually in very low visibility situations, like dense fog. I understand that and agree With normal visibility it will annoy and confuse other drivers, it will be at least as bright as a lit up brake light, possibly moreso. I figure that would be a plus, bringing more attention to the rear of the car and your brake lights possibly could prevent an accident

Oh and as for the switch, I'm planning to wire it to an ignition-controlled power source, so there won't be any concern about leaving it on to drain the battery.Good Idea thats typically how I have done all my add ons unless they required a constant source of power for memory functions

Either way yall decide to do it I think its a great idea and should have been left on all models regardless of where they are destined for. Hell Nissan could have toted it as another safety feature exclusive to them here in the US.

[Minicobra1]

Originally Posted by wstar

Because a rear fog light is *not* supposed to be on all the time. You only turn it on when you're actually in very low visibility situations, like dense fog. With normal visibility it will annoy and confuse other drivers, it will be at least as bright as a lit up brake light, possibly moreso.

I've only used the fogs (very bright) on my Cooper S about 1/2 a dozen times in the last year, mainly in the rain, don't think I've ever been in the fog with it.

So my thoughts with the Z is too put in a lower watt bulb (same strength as tails) so that it's on all the time. And if at all possible maybe wire it up into the brake assembly. This way it works just like a 3rd tail light. I think this is a unique signature of the 370, having it on all the time will offer the best rear visibility for safety on any night. Otherwise, I think I may just purchase the Nismo rear diffuser and do away with it all together.

[o0javi0o]

I think that further in time, it will cost cheaper. I think that it is kind of overpriced right now. but that is my opinion.

[Minicobra1]

dont we already have this setup without the lens cover? Seams like we should should just be able to replace the lens cover. The box and the wiring harness already seam to be there.

[SoCal 370Z]

Originally Posted by Minicobra1

dont we already have this setup without the lens cover? Seams like we should should just be able to replace the lens cover. The box and the wiring harness already seem to be there.

MC1,

Hmmmm...that would save us a bit of money!

[wstar]

Originally Posted by Minicobra1

dont we already have this setup without the lens cover? Seams like we should should just be able to replace the lens cover. The box and the wiring harness already seam to be there.

Yes, I took mine apart today to look at it. Basically, in place of an actual rear fog lamp, we have a "reflector" (a very poor one) mounted on a box that's the same size/shape a real lamp. There's also already factory wiring coming from the same harnesses as the rest of the rear lighting. The plug is plugged into a dummy socket next to the reflector box, to hold it there in place. Presumably one could buy the real fog lamp unit from the JP/EU models and just plug this connector into it.

The big question mark is: where does the other end of that pair of wires go? I pulled out the little area in the center console that has the cup holder and heated seat switches (empty center switch bay there) - there's no "unused" connectors laying around anywhere obvious under there, so it's not pre-wired to that area. There are no unused control settings on our left stalk that might be prewired to it. I'm lost as to what they did with the other end of the wires.

Most likely, assuming the EU one is controlled from the stalk (can anyone confirm this?), it's probably wired to the harness connector for the stalk, but our stalk just doesn't use those pins, or those wires are simply cut off in the vicinity of the steering column.

[SoCal 370Z]

Originally Posted by wstar

Most likely, assuming the EU one is controlled from the stalk (can anyone confirm this?), it's probably wired to the harness connector for the stalk, but our stalk just doesn't use those pins, or those wires are simply cut off in the vicinity of the steering column.

Yes, it is controlled from a rotating inner switch on the turn signal stalk that is not on our cars:



When I installed the illuminated door sills I learned that the harnesses are not complete, but car specific. Mostly likely the dummy plug does go to a legit wiring part of the rear harnesses, but no farther.

[wstar]

Originally Posted by SoCal 370Z

Yes, it is controlled from a rotating inner switch on the turn signal stalk that is not on our cars:



When I installed the illuminated door sills I learned that the harnesses are not complete, but car specific. Mostly likely the dummy plug does go to a legit wiring part of the rear harnesses, but no farther.

Hmm that kinda sucks. So we'll need to find exactly where the other end of the existing wiring is, and figure out easy or hard it would be to route this to the center console's unused switch area I bet, and then find a matching switch. We could probably order replacement heated seat switches, figure out a pin mapping that works, and then carefully modify the labellling on them. I don't know why they left this off. I've never had a rear fog lamp, but after reading up on it, it sounds really useful to me in heavy fog conditions (which are very common early in the morning in TX, especially out of town).

[trema]

Isnt that CF front emblem just a side marker cover with a CF surround?