Rear Lights

Sunday 24^th July

Decided to fit the rear lights today, so laid them all out on the floor behind the car, connected the wires, connected the battery to ensure they all work prior to fitting, got the indicators / lights and fog light working but with a slight hitch, when the switches were on the off position the lights were on, and in the on position the lights were off. The wire loom for the switches come from tiger with plugs pre fitted, so it should have been just a simple case of plug them in. I looked over the wiring diagrams I had sourced from the net / tiger forums etc but to no avail, I also couldn’t just turn the plugs around 180 degrees as one of the wires in the plug was offset so wouldn’t match up, hmmm after about an hour of head scratching I decided to put the meter on the switches to ensure they wasn’t the problem, it was J I was getting continuity through the terminals on the back of the switch with it in the off position and nothing with it in the on position, it turns out the switches had been assembled the wrong way round, so it was an easy fix, now all the switches work correctly J  

Fitted the rear tail lights first, these come with GRP angle adjusters to get the lights vertical as required for the IVA. I drilled through the adjusters and then through the rear body and lined them up level within the height limits for the IVA.

I then fitted the rear fog, reversing light and the number plate light, the fog light is also supplied with a GRP angled adjuster as this also needs to be vertical for the IVA.

Couldn’t get the reverse light working though, not sure why, I will check it later as time to call it a night.