Hi all, I've just dug out the front fog lamps from my long term storage, ready to clean and refit. They are the early type ones with the chrome plated casing, which is good nick, but the light reflectors are well & truly shot, rusted right through. I bought a later set with black plastic casings second hand from Beaulieu autojumble a couple of years ago, which were a pair from the same vehicle but one was a LR lamp, which has a smooth glass in it, and the other has a 'FT' ? lens glass in it, which has diffuser "ribbing" in the glass.I've swapped over the innards, so I can retain the chrome casings. My car originally had both lamps the same; the FT type, which I find a bit confusing. I seem to remember from somewhere it is correct to use one of each type, so I've fitted the LR one to the offside, to illuminate the road ahead, and the FT one to the nearside to illuminate the kerb. I'm assuming you need one of each type, due to the fact that the normal headlights go off when you switch to "Fog" Is this correct?
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Bit of a moot point really. On early cars only one lamp was fitted - a fog. I'm not sure what later practice was, but if you genuinly wnated to use them for fog, the LR one won't be a lot of use and the back spill from the fog could even blind you to what is visible on the nearside.
Chris
Chris
Well, they're on & working.. 8) I'm not that bothered about them TBH, they're there more for decoration & the sake of completeness, but I asked the question mainly to get the fitment correct, and I think the MOT requires any light fitted to be working. They do look nice, all polished up, but I suspect the black covers will be in place for 99.9% of the time, so what sort of lens it has is a bit irrelevant really I guess. 
happy days
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Harvey !!!!!! Calm down we need you here for advice, you will end up with a heart attack. My front fogs were not wired up for my MOT and it passed. So don't think all lights have to be working, only the " obvious ones ". See Harvey a nice dealers and calm comment. Now to find Er indoors. Oi where the #####y he'll is my cup of tea
Ancient Briton
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Back in the late seventies i took my saab 99 for its MOT. The tester checked all the lights and said he was going to fail the car due to one of the fog lamps not working his argument being both had to work. ...Solution?....I chopped the feed wire to the other lamp and said they were purely for decoration ....It passed
NickDunning
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harveyp6 said:
That may be on next year's changes - certainly tow bar electrics, if fitted, will have to be working for MOT's from next year.
