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Friday, March 13, 2020

Safety Upgrade - Illuminated Rear Center Reflector

Illuminated Rear Center Reflector - The 993 sold in some ROW countries included rear-facing fog lights. These are not present on USA cars. As a result, the center section on USA cars has unused lamp positions under the red lens.
These two positions can be filled with two bulbs wired to the marker and stop light wires on the left or right tail light. By illuminating these two additional positions the 993 benefits from greatly increased visibility at night from the rear and outstanding stop indication. Here is a fun DIY project to add this simple lighting upgrade see Appendix “H” “How to illuminate the unused us center reflector positions”.

Also, if one replaces the high-mounted stoplight incandescent bulb (s) with LEDs from


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