What's the deal with the missing taillight bulbs on USroccs?

[flaatr@yahoo.com (Euroroc II)]

Yes Rhett, you are correct. although both bulb carriers have spots for 
bulbs only the left (drivers side) is used for a correct rear fog. Use this 
in conjunction with a three position fog light switch, US fog light 
switches are only 2 potion.

The Euro tail lights have this opening but are missing the corner lights... 
You could modify the Euro tails to accept the corner light but then they 
don't look right cuz they don't have the reflector and blocking... the 
better way to go is the Dremel a hole in the left side of the US tail light 
and install a bulb, I belive the reflector is already mirrorized so a hole 
is all you need. You will need to add one wire to the harness that plugs 
into the carrier and run that up front to the fog light switch to wire it up.

I had drilled both on my '84 until I found out that only the left was 
supposed to be lit up so I just removed the bulb on the right side, cool a 
spare!

-Raffi


At 12:56 PM 4/7/2003 -0500, Rhett Farnum wrote:
>it is in the Tech section of the .org. ITs a euro fog light and most 
>commonly only the left one is put in if IRC.
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>Peace Out,
>Rhett
>Rocco_crossing
>'83 Rocco (autocross ready, tune up, harness bar, rear wheel bearings, and 
>finally I may get to makeing it look better!!)
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>>From: Calimus <calimus@techography.net>
>>To: Ryan H <rhock99@epix.net>
>>CC: scirocco-l@scirocco.org
>>Subject: Re: What's the deal with the missing taillight bulbs on US roccs?
>>Date: Mon, 07 Apr 2003 13:48:00 -0400
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>>I was kinda curious about this as well back when I did the same mod you
>>mentioned.  I figured that at the time of production the US only
>>required one running light in the rear.  I think the euro cars had to
>>have two since maybe the mass ammounts of fog/misting rain the get
>>creates  more of a need for visibility.
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>>Aside from just cutting the block off and shoving a bulb in there, I
>>think you can also run a jumper wire from the main braking light
>>terminal so that you get an extra brake light as well.  I think I have
>>seen that posted somewhere (maybe on patrics or shannons website).
>>
>>William
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>>Ryan H wrote:
>> >
>> > I noticed that the taillight bulb holder has a spot for another bulb, 
>> but the lens doesn't have a hole cut-out for it... it says USA on the 
>> plastic block-off piece instead.  So I cut it out, and put a bulb in, 
>> and now I have more taillight power.  So why wasn't this from the factory?
>>Stupid US light regulations perhaps?
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