Tail Lights

The tail lights were the final lights to be fitted. They are LED clusters including the reflectors from LED Technologies.  They required drilling holes into painted fibreglass...my favourite pastime! I checked the ADRs for the all the relevant distances, and then measured up. I masked the guards with tape and did all my set out on the tape. I then made a mounting template out of cardboard that matched the light mounts, and taped it to the guards. Once I was happy with the set out, I drilled both the 5mm mounting holes and 12 mm holes for the cable grommet and cabling.

Earlier in the day I had joined the connector wiring tails to the body loom, and these are routed through body grommets inside the mudguard. I have used table figure 8 brackets on  the mudguard bolts to cable tie up the cables inside the wheel arch. The lights have to be perpendicular to the road surface to meet ADRs, so I have fabricated up some blocks of high density rubber to fit behind the lights on the guard before bolting them into place. These came up OK if I do say so. Naturally the wiring all worked as my auto electrical skills have grown dramatically since undertaking this build.
Lights finished and ticked off the to do list!