Rear Fog Light for Europe(Brussels)

Mgltacoma

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I moving to EUR soon and was told that it is requirement for all US spec vehicles need to have rear fog light. I am currently looking for adding rear fog light. I saw Smoke 3D LED Tube/9-LED 3rd Brake Light Assembly For Toyota Prius 4Runner Sienna
Here what claims to be rear fog light. Interesting enough picture on there has that led light above rear window tailgate they are calling it rear fog light. Do you guys know if that light can pass as fog light for Europe? I believe our 4runners already come equipped with light there in the same place.
 
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That looks more like a 3rd brake light. Pretty much every car I have seen with them on in Europe have them imbedded in the tail light.

Sorry I can not be much help man but there is a few ideas in the thread here....

http://www.toyota-4runner.org/5th-gen-t4rs/213809-2016-rear-fog-light.html

It can't be the 3rd brake light; you have to be able to enable and disable it via a switch. Usually is on the rear driver side lights cluster, most of the time above the brake light
 
It can't be the 3rd brake light; you have to be able to enable and disable it via a switch. Usually is on the rear driver side lights cluster, most of the time above the brake light

I was talking about the link the OP attached and I was right it is a 3rd brake light assembly. Smoke 3D LED Tube/9-LED 3rd Brake Light Assembly For Toyota Prius 4Runner Sienna

And I know that most rear fog lights are in the rear lenses of cars as I have spent half my life growing up in Europe. Plus the Audis that come to the states have a factory rear fog light but only one lights up and people tweak the wiring to make the both light up here in the states. This is why
I posted a link that might help the OP with the 4Runner he's taking to Europe
 
So here is the official requirement for rear fog lights in Poland. Poland is a member of EU and most requirements are the same across the Europe, so it is safe to say, that if the car meets Polish requirements i will be good for the whole Europe. This is the EU regulation "ECE-R38" and "ECE-R48":

1. If one rear fog light is used it should be placed on the left side (right side for right hand dribing like in UK). It is allowed to place one rear fog light in the center. If two lights are used they must be placed symmetrical on both sides. It has to be placed no higher than 100cm above the ground and no lower than 25 cm above the ground. If rear fog light is used as a part of the tail lamp the upper limit is 120cm (4runner is good for that).

2. Important: rear fog light must be at least 10cm away from the stop light. I'll explain the problem later.

3. Color must be red, the brightness must be similar to stop light 150 - 300 cd (equivalent of 20W bulb) and must face rear +/- 25 degree left/right and +/- 5 degree up/down.

4. Must have its own switch (separate from the front fog light switch) with light indicating "On" position. Can be turned on only when headlights or front fog lights are on.

Because it is allowed to have only one reverse light (ECE-R48 and ECE-R23), the simplest way would be to replace the white reverse bulb in the left lamp with the red one (incandescent or LED) and route wiring to separate switch. But because of requirement 2 and the fact that reverse light is next to stop light this would not work. First you would need to swap positions of reverse and turn signal bulbs, so the reverse bulb is on the bottom (or top depends on 4Runner year) of the lamp and turn signal in the middle, then you can use this reverse for rear fog swap solution. I did that to my Nissan Versa Note and for 95 Tacoma.

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This solution is quite popular in small cars but it sucks as you will lose one reverse light. I'm still searching for a solution for my Tacoma - the best way to add either reverse light or rear fog light.

In 4Runner I did custom lamps that I placed in the rear bumper trim (the rear fog lamp building thread for my 4Runner is here http://www.toyota-4runner.org/5th-gen-t4rs/204372-2012-sr5-rear-bumper-question.html). Looks factory, is legal and 100% functional.

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