satlawyer

Hello All,

So I got myself into a bit of fog the other night and while the front LED fog lamps worked perfectly well, I was surprised to notice that my NX is not equipped with rear fog lamps. Is that the case for the U.S/Canadian variants aswell? Disappointed.

15RC350F

Lexus does not include rear fog lamps in its North American models.

For those who are ignorant of such, "rear fog lamps" are one or two bright red rear lights (approximately as bright as brake lights) that can be switched on by the driver [hopefully only] in foggy conditions. Required in Europe (and other places), they are typically only found in North America on European-branded cars, such as Jaguar, Porsche, etc.

Mr645

European cars have it. Volvo, Mercedes, BMW etc

coolsaber

sw disabled or hw level

TeaAholic1

Hardware.

My NX has rear fog lights, and it replaces one of the reversing lights. So I only have one reversing light instead of two.

satlawyer

Interesting...and you NX came equipped with it? Or was it an option that you had specifically asked for?

Some months in Dubai can be especially bad when very thick fog settles in and around most freeways. I am surprised that Lexus did not even give rear fog lamps as an option.

My Mercedes before this came equipped with front and rear fog lamps.

TeaAholic1

I believe it's standard here in Australia. We usually get UK/European spec cars here so whatever the Europeans have (like the 300h in F Sport) we also get here.

Dubai usually gets the US based versions.

Here is my car with the reverse light and the rear fog lights. The rear fog lights are 3 LEDs. And they are super bright and blinding at night. They are brighter than the brake lights.

LexBob2

Our U.S. spec Audi has two rear fog lights. I've used them only once in a heavy summer storm. Even though they are on the bumper below the taillights, to me they look like you are resting your foot on the brake pedal. Just because they are an uncommon sight in the U.S.I guess.

satlawyer

Thanks for the picture. It looks just about right. I was asking because I was having trouble trailing the car in front of me because it had no rear fog lamps and the standard tail lights were just not bright enough...until I saw a Mercedes with its fog lamps on and it made a world of a difference.

TeaAholic1

Huh, that's interesting. I know that some cars (like your Audi) has 2 rear fog lights, but cars usually have one, on the side of the driver so in the US that would be on the left bumper so people don't confuse it as a brake light.

Yeah I would imagine so in thick fog. Now that I think of it, it can be quite dangerous.

Interestingly, we don't get much fog in Australia to really need fog lights. A lot of people on the road have them on anyway and it annoys everyone on the road.

Kansas

This thread is a little stale but maybe some of you will be interested.

I installed very nice compact rear fog lights on two of our vehicles that didn't already have them - purchased on eBay Germany. it might work well on the NX and maybe other vehicles. It is marketed for use on U.S. specification cars imported into Europe. Unlike some of the poor quality aftermarket rear fog lights sold on eBay and Amazon, this one has an E-mark (E4/Netherlands) and is intense and focused.

Its current draw is extremely low - I powered it from the front fog light circuits without using relays via aftermarket switches I installed on the dashboards of our vehicles.

Here is an image from eBay Germany, an image of it unlighted on our Prius v wagon and an image of it when lighted on our Prius v.

I attached it to the bottoms of the rear bumper covers of our vehicles using L-brackets that I cut and painted black. I've had OEM rear fog lights on European cars I've owned and have installed aftermarket fog lights - usually Hella - on other Japanese cars. This LED rear fog light is the best I've seen.