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Clear Rear Light Cluster

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rejo:
You could always do it this way. I removed the yellow plastic lens from the bumper lights and replaced it with a clear lens, this then made the indicaters into reversing lamps. The lamp housing on the side I made the reversing lamps into indicaters by fitting with orange bulbs. All I had to do then was change a few cables around on the inside. The top lights are brake and tail but on the 300 models the tail light connecter has been chopped so I had to add another cable and a connecter onto the metal tab that comes from the light fitting. Non off this was difficult just time consuming as the 6th seat had to come out and I didnt have a wiring diagram at hand for the cable colours only a multimeter.
If you do it this way you will get 4 tail lamps and a million times better reversing lamps, it also makes the indicaters higher. I reckon this should of been done originally as it seems to me pretty dangerous having the tail and indicater lamps so low down that the person behind you cant see them half the time.
A multimeter and a couple of hours would be all it takes to do this .... a wiring diagram would be handy as well.
It also saves you buying 200 shape lamps.

Range Rover Blues:
But as I said earlier the change was driven by safety legislation, which if I understand correctly you have "broken".  The change was intended to make both the tail lights and 4-way flashers (hazards) visible even with the rear door opened, in the even that you were broken down or parked at the side of the road.

Whilst I applaud your ingenuity it is important to remember that designers do things for a reason, it's only stylists who do them on a whim ;)

ben_haynes:
i am with RRB on this one

stageonesimmo:
Yip, youre actually messing with a very important peice of work known as 'Type Approval' by muckin with the lamp layout.  Not saying its a bad idea and the police/Mot Man will be after you or anything like that, but like RRB poionts out - these things are done at the design stage for very valid reasons and are usually safety related in some way.  By all means mess with new ways of doing things, but I always look at keeping the basic system the same and adding to it to improve it thus avoiding any legal implications........

freeagent:
yep, agree with the above, you shouldn't mess with the lamp layout...

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