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I'm after a 3rd brake light for my 33 having dispensed with the standard spoiler.

I'm having trouble sourcing something suitable. I mean you can pick up a Chinese 'special' LED arrangement on Ebay, but I believe the law says the 3rd brake light needs to be 'shrouded'?

I can't low low mount 'cos of the wiper, so it needs to be high mount.

I am probably gonna trawl some wreckers to see what I can find, I doubt it will be easy to find something suitable due to cars having different rear wind shield angles etc.

Any suggestions?

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I thought, if the car didn't come out with 1 you didn't have to have 1. But in saying that, the wife got pulled over the other day, as the rear spoiler light wasn't working, and she told the coppa that we are removing the wing in a week or two as it's getting a full respary, and we aren't putting it back on. Well, he recons by law we have to have an eye level stop light mounted on the window????????? I've looked and haven't found to many that are going to fit the curves nice at all, so I'll see how we go. My spoiler has been off now for a couple of years and never once been pulled over for it. So who knows mate, but there must be a law somewhere bout it.

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i dont know if it would be the same, but i know not to long ago chris rogers had to find a 3rd stop light for a 32.

he ended up using one from either a camry or magna (cant remember which)

pm him and see what he used

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In some states a high mount brake light is an ADR requirement on any car after 1985 , cars that were in factory production first started using them , as standard therefore the ADR. I just recently had to fit one to my GTR R32 , i went to supercrap auto , and got them to order one out of a bosch catalogue book , cost 60 bucks for a 24 led adjustable high mount light and fitted it to rear window . sorted

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Yeah I'll go down to supercheap and ask.

I know the law says you need one, also in the event of being rear ended I would worry that the absence of one could be used against me.

Just from a practical POV they are good also. If you go out on a cruise and end up behind a load of de-spoilered Skylines (w/ no 3rd brake lights) it is annoying not being able to see when the cars way ahead on the road are braking. You have to me more 'reactive' - only being able to see the car directly in front - and so you get more of a 'concertina' effect going on, so more risk of crashes.

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not long ago when i was trying to get a RWC here in melbourne, my mechanic picked up a simple stick on one like those you get from any auto store, as i also removed the spoiler and because of the angle it doesn't look perfect during the day, but at night it lights up really nice and you can't tell it's not perfectly straight and he gave me the nod and said its fine so yeah, im happy

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for those that asked via PM.

3rd light is from a mitsi magna from 2002 on. they are LED ones and when you do it get the harness/mounts as well. sits neatly on the top of the glass.

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I went to supercheap and picked up a LED brake light for 30 bucks, Just a 7 inch or so long bar self contained with 12 LED's in it or something. Install was easy, comes with 3M tape already on the light casing, pretty much a basic wire in job.

Works a dream, bright and legal.

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