Fitting rear boot brake light

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Fitting rear boot brake light

Post by woodworm » Fri Mar 08, 2013 11:06 am

Hi
Has anyone fitted a rear brake light in the boot lid? Since getting my mgf and driving it around Birmingham i think i really need one. I've seen kits on the interweb and i've also downloaded a fitting guide.It looks somewhat easy but when i attement these sort of jobs something always goes wrong and i end up wishing i never started lol

Any advice would be gratefully welcome

Thanks.. Mark

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Re: Fitting rear boot brake light

Post by Steve White » Fri Mar 08, 2013 4:00 pm

There is another fitting guide here on Rob's site.
If your car has ABS and power steering then it should have part of the wiring loom already fitted in the boot lid, so you can plug straight into it using the plug & play kit (Part No. XFG 100230).
If the , then you can either use the long wire kit (Part No. XFN 100180) which includes the additional wiring to reach the main loom, or route your own wiring as per above link.

Fitting of either it pretty straight forward so give it a go :thumbsu:

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Re: Fitting rear boot brake light

Post by Rob Bell » Fri Mar 08, 2013 5:43 pm

As Steve says! :thumbsu:

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Re: Fitting rear boot brake light

Post by woodworm » Mon Mar 11, 2013 12:06 pm

Thanks for the above. Kit has been orderd and will fit it soon

Thanks Mark :) :)

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