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Posted: Sat Apr 01, 2006 11:12 am 
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Does the front bumper of a EF Fairmont Ghia allow me to put the Ford Driving lights into on each side, cause ive heard they only fit on like fairlanes and so on
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Posted: Sat Apr 01, 2006 11:58 am 
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Yes it will fit, but they are actually cornering lights not driving lights.

 

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Posted: Sat Apr 01, 2006 5:53 pm 
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They fit and you can wire them up as driving lights if you want. I had mine wired up to turn on with the parkers with a seperate switch under the dash to turn them off if the boys in blue ever question it. Had them this way for 5 years..

 

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Posted: Sat Apr 01, 2006 7:11 pm 
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ok... blonde question time:

whats the dif between driving lights and cornering lights.? (i know what fog lights are :P)

 

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Posted: Sat Apr 01, 2006 7:21 pm 
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the cornering lights were angled slightly sideways, either the left or right one lit up whenever u indicated and ur headlights were on...help u see around the corner a bit.

 

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Posted: Sat Apr 01, 2006 7:23 pm 
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with driving lights, both light up, as opposed to just one, and are on permanently, not just when ur indicating.

 

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Posted: Sat Apr 01, 2006 7:24 pm 
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Mash85 wrote:
with driving lights, both light up, as opposed to just one, and are on permanently, not just when ur indicating.


ah ok - cheers for that :)

 

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Posted: Sat Apr 01, 2006 7:28 pm 
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and speaking of the cornering lights, i want some. anyone got any they want to offload?

 

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Posted: Sun Apr 02, 2006 9:35 pm 
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Even when hooking the cornering lamps up to work like driving lights ... you still aren't going to get any forward light ... I followed an NL on the way to work and he turned off ... and when he indicated ... I could see the beam off to the side of the road.

So it's useless hooking them up as fog driving lights ... it's a direct beam on a 45 degree angle ... pretty useless really to use in a forward direction .... and I think they are only 21w globes ... not 55w like foglights are.

 

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Posted: Sun Apr 02, 2006 9:56 pm 
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One of my mates was actually told that he could not mount driving lights in the two corner vents on the front bumper of his EF as it fed cool air to the battery and was actually illegal to mount lights there.

Not sure how true this may be........
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Posted: Sun Apr 02, 2006 10:02 pm 
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On the EF/EL it was an option to have the cornering lights fitted from factory in those spaces ... so it couldn't have been illegal to mount them there.

There is no vent behind there though ... it goes into nothing.

 

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Posted: Sun Apr 02, 2006 10:04 pm 
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Mechan1k wrote:
On the EF/EL it was an option to have the cornering lights fitted from factory in those spaces ... so it couldn't have been illegal to mount them there.

There is no vent behind there though ... it goes into nothing.


Yep. That's right. Don't know what the hell the guys he was talking to were on about, but they were a professional light shop......dunno.
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Posted: Sun Apr 02, 2006 10:40 pm 
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correct me if i am wrong, but isnt that little venty bit different between pov packs and fairmonts? i was sure that they were a different shape and didnt fit in properly

 

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Posted: Sun Apr 02, 2006 10:41 pm 
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I was talking about Fairmonts ... sorry.
Mate of mine has the cornering lamps set up in he EL Mont.

 

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Posted: Mon Apr 03, 2006 2:20 pm 
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Mash85 wrote:
and speaking of the cornering lights, i want some. anyone got any they want to offload?


Good luck finding 'em second hand! Try www.ozeparts.com and choose NL Fairlane on the model selection on the left of the page. They're $83 new genuine for one. :wink:
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