Ive lost count of the numbers of rear lights my dad has smashed on his 2004 car, keeps reversing into walls and posts on the shoot.

When I was fitting his latest OSR unit I noted that the side reflector strip in red had an electrical connection at the back which the car doesn't have on the loom.

So is this light part of a US spec with DRL or something? Can't say I've ever seen one lit up? Discovery 4 HSE
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Mine are the same with no wiring in the loom part either , only ones I have seen lit are in the States not seen one in the UK , was thinking a while back of getting them wired up tho

the american market specified having 'side' lights on the side...hence the new l405 front/rear lights bending around the sides.. ... - .- -.




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Is there a bulb/bulb holder there too ? Does it work with power supplied ?

Fairly straight forward to connect up to ignition live feed on left hand rear of car to act as a DRL (see what I did with rear reflectors in wiki)

I've not had my rear light units out (yet) so wonder if they are there as standard on only on replacement units? .
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RRUK wrote:

Ive lost count of the numbers of rear lights my dad has smashed on his 2004 car, keeps reversing into walls and posts on the shoot.

When I was fitting his latest OSR unit I noted that the side reflector strip in red had an electrical connection at the back which the car doesn't have on the loom.

So is this light part of a US spec with DRL or something? Can't say I've ever seen one lit up?

Yes they were a requirement in North America as were the fronts too sir... Hence the term NAS North America Spec

Tut tut Adam , a Mod posting in the wrong section and getting it moved

JOKER wrote:

Mine are the same with no wiring in the loom part either , only ones I have seen lit are in the States not seen one in the UK , was thinking a while back of getting them wired up tho

Mick, yours should have (09MY>) LED rear lights already... If yours are NAS spec you won't see any wiring for the side markers as they are LED's too and in the 09my> the LED's and wiring is all hidden...


Craig

Cheers Craig , further investigation now is needed as I have always liked the side markers lit up on the NAS ones

Problem is with yours Mick, you can only do the rears as you cannot purchase RHD NAS headlamps

The front headlights 06-09 do have the fitting for the side markers already there. the sidelight bulb holder fits it so if you managed to source a couple of these then you would just have to wire them in. was thinking of putting led's in the existing sidelights of mine to match the xenon headlights and the normal bulbs in the side markers so as not to bring up any faults or overload anything. any wiring would be inside the headlight unit then. '04 td6 se
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If he's always backing into posts, I'd check the parking sensors and the rear view camera before worrying about NAS vs Euro lighting differences.

JOKER wrote:

Tut tut Adam , a Mod posting in the wrong section and getting it moved

Joe90 wrote:

Fairly straight forward to connect up to ignition live feed on left hand rear of car to act as a DRL (see what I did with rear reflectors in wiki)