FTO AUSTRALIA

when i got my Fto fresh import, it has the front bottom bar, indicators, but not the foglights?? im thinkin either they got nicked or taken of during compliance, does anyone know how to get hold of a pair, and is there much detail in installing them ???

You dont want to know how much they cost.....

lol your first kid may just pay for them

I think they were an optional delete on the car?

If you don't have them, make friends with someone who does and hope they write their car off before you do.

haha, thats great at all but does anyone know a cost in figures, not just the obvious expensive lol, and if anyone knows where u can get them from??? cheers

$211 per side + postage from Japan (Brand new). Expect to pay double that from Mitsi Australia. Can have them here in a couple of weeks. Now, after having said that, I expect that I wont be getting a reply - told you they were expensive. Cant say I know why. Ill keep an eye out for a 2nd hand set on yahoo Japan.

haha, yeah i knew they would be expensive, i have occasionally looked on Ebay but rarely are there any facelift model parts available, but if u happen to come across some 2nd hand ones ill get em off ya, just let us know, do they come with all the wiring and etc?? and are the easy to install ??

I wanted to put some into my gp, but at that $$$$ I think its looks great with out them

yeah somepll reckon the look just at good without them, does anyone know why they get taken off along the line, is it a import compliance thing ??? i dont mind not having any but if anyone finds some 2nd handers, for the facelift model ill take em,

the Jap owner may not have wanted to pay out the $$$ for them when they got the car new.
any way its a great spot to put the cold air feed for C.A.I. if you dont get the fog lights.

2 reasons,

Firstly they were an option on most models, so unless the extra was paid, you didnt get them.

Second reason is compliance. The only way under the new rules that the facelift FTO can be complied is to put the indicators where the foglights are. Most compliance shops dont bother rigging up a bracket that puts the foglights back in where the indicators originally were. This all has to do with the 45 degree visibility of the indicators from the front and the side.

At least you got something... I didn't even get a burnt out switch!

hang on dwayne, do you mean to say that the foggies originally sat outside of the indicators? and that they're swapped on all of our cars?

My indicators are on the outter and fog lights on inside
Must be there lazy compliance people in Tassie who complied the FTO

nicholas wrote:hang on dwayne, do you mean to say that the foggies originally sat outside of the indicators? and that they're swapped on all of our cars?

My foggies are on the outside..or the holes are anyway

Foglights are originally on inside and indicators on outside. In old ADR scheme, these did not need to be changed, so there are legally complied FTO's out there with indicators in original position. With the advent of the current ADR scheme, they needed to be changed to meet the current requirements. There will also be a few around where the compliance shops didnt bother to change them over and didnt get audited.

Gotcha, so it could be either.

Haha is there anything you don't know about them?

LOTS, but what i dont know Bennoz pretty much does. He knows heaps more than I do.

i hv front mount foglight sthat i took off my ca. came with the car. didnt work. you csn have them if you want

dstocks wrote:LOTS, but what i dont know Bennoz pretty much does. He knows heaps more than I do.

lol, we make a pretty good team. I dont know much about the external differences & factory options etc, but I can talk about the mechanical differences until the cows come home.