Fitting a fog light with a reversing camera bonus
Build Diary - Mazda RX7 FD
@armonb
20th January 2023With it being a JDM car, there was no rear fog light installed.
I was pretty sure (although still unsure) that all cars in the UK are required to have a rear fog light - whether imported or not and I wanted my car to be fully compliant to mitigate any future issues.
I didn't fancy the idea of some awful stick on one and wanted it to look as OEM as possible.
Some pondering later, I came up with the idea to convert one of the two rear reversing lights in to a fog light.
So I went ahead and;
- Removed the right rear reversing light assembly
- Swapped the bulb for a bright red led bulb
- Sprayed the lens with some red tint
- Spliced in to the fog light wire in the centre console (which controls the OEM front fog lights), and ran a new wire to the reversing light assembly
I now had a redundant power line that used to power the reverse lamp. I was going to just tape it up until I had a brain wave - I could use it as the power for a reversing camera for auto-power on reverse!
So I ordered a reversing camera, hooked it up and voila! 2 jobs for the effort of one (almost).