Rear Fog light

Muckit · 21-12-2010 11:39AM #1

Was out walking yesterday evening. It's quite foggy where I am at the moment, as well as the -13 freeze.

A tractor passed me with a bale of silage swinging on the back.

Now if his rear lights weren't great to begin with, I could barely make them out 50 yards up the road. It got me thinking, wouldn't it make more sense for them to be a necessity on tractors/slow moving vehicles than on cars? Yet I don't think they are a legal requirement. Would a temp adaptor lense kit to fit working lights be an idea? Probably be too high up to be effective?

I know alot of IW type trailers have them now as standard, which I think is good.... but I doubt if many jeep plugs are wired to light them! I stand corrected! (I do know there's an extra 'aux' pin in plug which could be used)

reilig · 21-12-2010 11:50AM

Muckit wrote: »

Was out walking yesterday evening. It's quite foggy where I am at the moment, as well as the -13 freeze.

A tractor passed me with a bale of silage swinging on the back.

Now if his rear lights weren't great to begin with, I could barely make them out 50 yards up the road. It got me thinking, wouldn't it make more sense for them to be a necessity on tractors/slow moving vehicles than on cars? Yet I don't think they are a legal requirement. Would a temp adaptor lense kit to fit working lights be an idea? Probably be too high up to be effective?

I know alot of IW type trailers have them now as standard, which I think is good.... but I doubt if many jeep plugs are wired to light them! I stand corrected! (I do know there's an extra 'aux' pin in plug which could be used)

On the continent, don't they have to have a red warning triangle permanently fixed to the back - they do in the scandanavian countries that experience a lot of fog and snow (Like the weather we currently have) ??

hiscan · 21-12-2010 11:56AM

Muckit wrote: »

Was out walking yesterday evening. It's quite foggy where I am at the moment, as well as the -13 freeze.

A tractor passed me with a bale of silage swinging on the back.

Now if his rear lights weren't great to begin with, I could barely make them out 50 yards up the road. It got me thinking, wouldn't it make more sense for them to be a necessity on tractors/slow moving vehicles than on cars? Yet I don't think they are a legal requirement. Would a temp adaptor lense kit to fit working lights be an idea? Probably be too high up to be effective?

I know alot of IW type trailers have them now as standard, which I think is good.... but I doubt if many jeep plugs are wired to light them! I stand corrected! (I do know there's an extra 'aux' pin in plug which could be used)

A lot of the garages don't wire the fog light in the socket when they are fitting a towbar.When I bought my first IW I had to bring the jeep back to get the fog light wired as it wasn't working,turns out they never connected it when they were fitting the towbar as they reckon that trailers didn't have fog lights.
This was 4 years ago so I don't know if they still think that way.

Rear Fog light

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