Have been searching forum and wondered if anyone has been able to find a way to make the rear lights in the tailgate become rear and stop lights like the main rear /stop on the rear wings?
2013 tailgate rear light conversion to stop and tail.
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I would imagine you could just run the wiring up the pillar and into the hatch from the outboard light into the hatch light so it would operate the same. You would need to make sure that the hatch light is a dual filament light bulb or can accept a dual filament bulb and base. I don't believe the outboard bulb is a single filament bulb that is dimmed for running lights but I could be mistaken. The '14+ which I have is a slightly different setup.
Thanks for the ideas - Taking a feed from the high level brake should be relatively easy, it is more the conversion of the tailgate rear light to a dual filament lamp and fitting it to the tailgate light. Has anyone tried anything similar?
The problem I see is that the bulb in the red portion of the tailgate is only a 194 bulb.
That means there's not a lot of room to put a dual-filament bulb in there.
I was thinking about the same thing years ago and gave up on it.
I went with the rear 'fog light' option and installed dual filament LED bulbs in there and set them up to be marker with brake/turn.
Works great. The Sylvania Zevo red 7443 bulbs are sufficiently bright in the small enclosure.
That means there's not a lot of room to put a dual-filament bulb in there.
I was thinking about the same thing years ago and gave up on it.
I went with the rear 'fog light' option and installed dual filament LED bulbs in there and set them up to be marker with brake/turn.
Works great. The Sylvania Zevo red 7443 bulbs are sufficiently bright in the small enclosure.
Good idea, I didn't think of that. Being in the UK his signal will be the amber light the US outboard reverse light so he won't have to worry about that. Dual filament bulb will be the only challenge now.
Definitely an option and food for thought. although my Fogs are actually fogs so I would have to find a way of retaining that functionality with a brake light function as well? Pretty sure it's mandated in the uk that the fog if fitted must work as a fog?
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