Can anyone tell me where I can find the rear fog light switch for my 07 550i? A website any place? I believe the car is equip with the fog lights and just needs the switch to activate them. Any help would be greatful.
Haven't heard about that one before. I have an 06 550i and the only lights on the rear (other than the brakes, of course) are the parking and reverse lights.
I have owned several BMW's and they have all had the slot for rear fog lights. Its not a need, its a want. I love the Euro look. Plus Audi's, Benz and volvo all have them in the states, why not a BMW?
This has been discussed before and it requires something along the line of reprogramming the LCM, a new light switch and running wires. Its easier on the 3 series where you just need to swap out the light controls and it works.
Kind of useful when reversing lights aren't enough on a dark night... other than that I guess they're useful when theres peasouper fog about and you're going slow. Obviously.
Rear fogs can be enable via coding, there will be no switch, they will go on when brake is depress. I have it on mine and here PA is helpful cause the reverse lights are not enough.
The rear fogs in the E60 is in the inner part of the light (closest part to trunk)
There is a coding meet in willow grove PA this Friday, inbox me if interested.
What's the point of that? If they only go on when the brake is depressed, how would one tell the difference between those and the regular brake lights?
Rear fogs can be enable via coding, there will be no switch, they will go on when brake is depress. I have it on mine and here PA is helpful cause the reverse lights are not enough.
The rear fogs in the E60 is in the inner part of the light (closest part to trunk)
There is a coding meet in willow grove PA this Friday, inbox me if interested.
This coding would allow the rear fog for braking, but I think there's coding to allow the inner circle to be euro switch activated, and illuminate as bright as brake lights (brighter than parking lights) to allow for brake light brightness during foggy weather.
Rear fog lights just look cool. I have had them on my volvo's and Benz's. The actually serve a great purpose driving in Jersey when ppl are tailgating at night...it backs them up, lol:thumbup:
I was behind an Audi the other day on my way into work that had the rear fog lights. I can see them being useful for times of dense fog, but during a clear morning (still dark), it was annoying me since they were so bright. Needless to say I did not stay behind the Audi for long
^I've seen numerous Benz's, Audis, Jaguars, Rovers, and Volvos with that annoying bright light behind them. Many of them don't even know they have it on, or how annoying it is to drivers behind in non-foggy conditions. :tsk:
Here's the mod with brake pedal activation with lightbars:
Here's the mod with brake pedal activation and no lightbars just circles (lightbars on because headlights are on):
These mods are just moving the brake lights from one place to another.
To have rear fogs (inner circle) independent of the brakes with euro switch it would need to be activated via coding on US spec E60's.
On the US spec E90's it's just a matter of replacing the switch with the euro one.
I'd like to weigh in on this, living in Germany --
From what the Lechhausen BMW Autohaus has told me, to get an American e60 to work correctly with a rear Fog, you would need a whole new rear drivers side trail light housing AND the correct switch AND an hour of programming. This normally only happens when someone permanently transfers an American BMW to Germany, where it will spend its remaining days there. If it is done temporarily they can do some voodoo computer magic so the rear drivers side brake light gets a full +12V when the fog light button for the front is pushed. Essentially you lose the ability to control the fog lights independently like you can with the DDM market BMWs.
I did this to my '04 with a wire, a switch, and about 15 minutes. If I remember correctly, you find 33 on the LCM, and jump from that to the switch, then back to 34. The lcm has the rear fog jumper, and the switch powers it. I don't have adaptive brake lights, but this mod will work with them. The lights are wired the same, they just need the switch. The fogs will override the adaptive braking lights. Originally I had the jump from 33-34 so that the front fogs where on and so where the back. I have more control over it with the switch. I just put it under the dash down by the foot rest. It is not something that I want to spend $175+ on the correct switch from a left hand drive country.
Rear fogs come on many US DOT approved cars, Audi, Volvo, and Saab come to mind. Headlight washers are standard on many US made cars including Caddy, Buick, as well as our own 5 series, 3 series, 1 series, 7 series, X3, and X5.
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