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I'm the proud owner of a 2006 Mustang GT; I bought it while I was working in the US, and when I had to go back in France I just had to bring it home with me.
Now I have to change a few things in order to be able to buy a French title and license plates, so I can drive it legally here.
Among other things, I have to change how the tail lights work. Here is the difference with the US:
- turn signals must be orange,
- there must be at least one fog light,
- the reversing light is optional.
What I have in mind:
1/ unplug the four stop/turn back feed wires on the SJB
2/ replace them with a resistor so the SJB believe the bulbs are still on the wires
3/ use pins 17 and 48 from the SJB C2280b to control turns relay
4/ use the 3rd brake light to control the brake relay
5/ add a switch (must be with an orange light) to control the fog light relay (with the pin 51 from C2280d so I can't power it without low beam)
The relays will be in the trunk, with a wire coming from the battery to power the lights. Here is a schematic:
What do you think about it?
In regard to item 3/, I'm wondering if I can use the front turns feed (i.e. pins 41 and 46 from C2280d) instead of relays: will it burn my SJB because of the power drain?
Also I don't know what kind of resistors I should use for item 2/, as you can see the one provided with the European tail lights is pretty big:
Also I would like everything to be removable, but I'm not sure if it's possible with all those special connectors...
I'm the proud owner of a 2006 Mustang GT; I bought it while I was working in the US, and when I had to go back in France I just had to bring it home with me.
Now I have to change a few things in order to be able to buy a French title and license plates, so I can drive it legally here.
Among other things, I have to change how the tail lights work. Here is the difference with the US:
- turn signals must be orange,
- there must be at least one fog light,
- the reversing light is optional.
What I have in mind:
1/ unplug the four stop/turn back feed wires on the SJB
2/ replace them with a resistor so the SJB believe the bulbs are still on the wires
3/ use pins 17 and 48 from the SJB C2280b to control turns relay
4/ use the 3rd brake light to control the brake relay
5/ add a switch (must be with an orange light) to control the fog light relay (with the pin 51 from C2280d so I can't power it without low beam)
The relays will be in the trunk, with a wire coming from the battery to power the lights. Here is a schematic:
What do you think about it?
In regard to item 3/, I'm wondering if I can use the front turns feed (i.e. pins 41 and 46 from C2280d) instead of relays: will it burn my SJB because of the power drain?
Also I don't know what kind of resistors I should use for item 2/, as you can see the one provided with the European tail lights is pretty big:
Also I would like everything to be removable, but I'm not sure if it's possible with all those special connectors...
Thanks for your help
I just imported mine from the US back to Australia and need to mod the tailights to split the brake,turn. what did you end up doing here?