So I have no idea how I never noticed but the other day driving behind my wife, I noticed that both of her tail lights were different. On the right side, Ford slipped and "gave" us a EU/BEV housing.
I wouldn't, because chances are if they even did something at all they would take the "wrong" right hand side tail lamp and change it for the original, its better to not involve Ford on that front. That is if they would be bothered to fix their build mistakes. I could never get them to fix the left front head lamp being out of alignment to the hood and it taking the paint off of the hood.
The same with the tail lamp fit issue and it taking the paint off the rear quarter panel.
Any other differences in the two housings? Like clear turn signal bulbs or still amber colored? Different reflector in them too or anything? I like them subtle.
Sorry to hijack this thread, but if you look at the fitment of the doors and panels on the right side of Focii you will notice also the gaps and level of seams suck also. Where these cars are produced for North America must have lousy QC on there builds. Haven't found one yet that has equal fit up of panels.
As for your Euro signal lens... looks good.
I remember a number of years back a dealership in New Jersey got a shipment of brand new squad cars for the NYPD. Of the twenty or so cars, three said "Grand Marquis" on the back instead of "Crown Victoria" (one even said "Grand Marquis LS"), and one had a Mercury horn button.
The company I worked for some time back got us Dodge Caravans for work.
But when mine was delivered it had a Plymouth Voyager badged steering wheel and glove box with all the Plymouth manuals in it.
Anyway, back to the topic at hand, anyone have the PN's for those tail lights?
Both of mine look like the euro ones. My car was built in June of this year.
*edit* I went out and looked at mine and while they both have the double horizontal bars, they don't seem to light up in anyway, so not sure now if I have them or not. Here's a pic of both sides.
Nope those are the standard ones, they only have a red reflector in the same size and shape where the red led lit strip would be on the European tail lamps.
This isn't even a case of liking it because you can't have it; they genuinely look better on the car.
Its often the little things that make the car 'better'. Obviously these won't add 250hp and give you a top end of 8 million miles an hour, but they're nice additions.
Or maybe they ran short on the correct part originating from a still flooded Thai plant or something and air freighted an emergency shipment in of the "wrong" part just to keep the lines running. I used to deliver air freight to all the GM plants in Flint MI years ago and saw such things done aplenty.
I can confirm the need for a resistor on the rear turn signals. I swapped the rear to an LED and now it blinks twice as fast. I just haven't taken the time to wire it yet. [facepalm]
You might want to at least try replacing the standard flasher with an electronic version instead of splicing a resistor into the circuit.
Less chance of the connections screwing up later or the resistor cooking anything nearby with the heat they can, and often do generate.
You might want to at least try replacing the standard flasher with an electronic version instead of splicing a resistor into the circuit.
Less chance of the connections screwing up later or the resistor cooking anything nearby with the heat they can, and often do generate.
Here in Australia we have led tail lights in the 2 top spec cars (titanium and sport) and the upper red section is the brake light that is incandecent, the lower red section is fog light(both sides) the 2 lower spec models being anbiente and trend have combination tail/brake incandecent in the upper section and no fog lights in the lower section, i believe that when the st gets here it will have the same spec as the titanium and sport do
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