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steptoe · Post by **steptoe** » Sun Sep 11, 2011 12:11 pm

While in the back end - just looking at what is what and not. There is a brown two pin plug with black wire, green / black trace tucked up with the LHS rear speaker. I thought it may have been a brake light supply for a shelf mount centre brake light - everything else is there!

FOUND extra brake lights in the light panel strip when I pulled the soft cover. They are the inner portion behind the reflectors, marked USA and EUROPE - just sitting there .Bloody hell, they are even equipped with KOITO 12V21W bulbs and just waiting to be hooked up to the brake circuit - plug too! Startng to bet self the wires are in place up the other end of the brake light in use.

I am a little fond of two STOP lights per side just in case one should accidental fall....

The brown plug mentioned above ain't for stop lights yet...

steptoe · Post by **steptoe** » Sun Sep 11, 2011 1:23 pm

Gets more intriguing , just as I have no time to play! The stop/tail lights in use - one per side are housed in a twin set up - there is another stop/tail bulb fitted and wired up but not in use as well as the inner stop/tail unit mentioned in post above. So, we now have three ! stop light options on the one level to play with and two tails - per side.

The inners are regarded as stop by our US friends so not a redundant fog light - or maybe - to go with front fog lights under the headlights !!

RSR 555 · Post by **RSR 555** » Sun Sep 25, 2011 9:46 pm

Yeah.. fog lights is my guess but sounds to me like you could just join them to your existing tail lights and and away you go

Gannon · Post by **Gannon** » Sun Sep 25, 2011 10:02 pm

This is from the 1988 XT FSM

I did a similar thing to my Outback to convert the unused rear fog lights to stop lights

steptoe · Post by **steptoe** » Mon Sep 26, 2011 8:50 am

I'll have to have another look/test of that T@ Truck Room Light connector - thanks Gannon. I did realise later models got same deal - lights and stuff all there just no worky!

Scotch locks - shudders. Quick and rather easy but have had dramas in the past and now only strip, solder and insulate....