Rear Light Kits

[mudski]

Thanks. Whats the reverse lights like in them? Nice and bright?

[Bazhemps]

Purchase GU 98/01 rear tailight set fully operational on Ebay from autopartsmate for $122.50 free post. Fitted perfectly into passenger side all functioning. Drivers side had stop light and right blinker connected but no earth, tail light and reverse. Too hard trying to source connections to bumper loom so with a peice of yellow tongue ran three cables under carpet and connected appropriate wiring from passenger to drivers side. All works and looks great and easier than stuffing around fitting globe holders plus all lights are defined and it took about hour and half to install.
The Baz

[paulvdw]

Lights nice and bright. Really happy with outcome!

[mudski]

You don't happen to have a pic of it? Im stuck between those and these.
http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/380395523...84.m1423.l2649

[bordertech]

By law I think you can only have three brake lights, two on the bar and one in the window, plus the 160 degree view of those lights.
So a pissed of copper could book you for this.
In saying this can't wait to get mine done.

P.S. great thread and responses (5stars)

Not quite so.
If they are connected they must in pairs and must both be working but the main reason they are not connected and the lights are in the bumper instead, is because they don't conform to the Australian Design Rules of lighting angle visibility, because the spare wheel location blocks it's view from the LHS.
GQ's from 1991 on had dummy lights too and lights put in the bumper for the same reason because 1991 was when the ADR's for lighting and other things was reformed. If you see a GQ with no lights in the bumper it's a 99% chance it's pre 1991.

So you can have 4 tail and brake lights but even though you get these all working the dummy lights are still technically illegal if used because of the ADR's and a cop who knows the regs could ping ya if he wanted.

Cheers, Dave

[itchyvet]

I had HOLDEN globe holders fitted, however, the brake fuse then melted the plastic on the fues holder around the fuse, causing it to become useless, had to rewire the fuse arrangement with bakelight fuse holder. Worked OK after that.

[00marshall]

I'm about to start this project. Looking at a similar kit of eBay, and have a late model GU so hoping it's as straightforward as folks are saying here.

Only query I have (for now) is do I need a different fuse, and what rating do people suggest?

[DaveGQ]

Anyone looking for a cheap option, rather than buying the $150+ kit, you can do it for about $10

Go to Supercheap Auto and buy a globe holder and some new globes. If the new globe holder is the same as the one as your current reverse light holder (mine was, they might be universal), use the existing hole for the current reverse light to draw up a little template, then transfer that template to the dummy brake light and cut out a hole in the plastic to suit the new globe holder.

Then just piggy back some wires from your brake lights in the bumper bar and up to the new lights. Easy, cheap, effective.