Front bumper

[Vikimr]

Can I install a VE Series 1 SV6 front bumper on an Omega VE series 1?
If yes what additional things I have to update.like footlights,front grills....

 

[Fu Manchu]

Straight swap.
Fog lights are going to need wiring up. There’s a thread on it somewhere.

 

[losh1971]

You will need a foglight switch. I don't know if the Omega has the extra wires needed in the dash or if you will need a patch loom? @Fu Manchu might know?

 

[J_D 2.0]

You will need a foglight switch. I don't know if the Omega has the extra wires needed in the dash or if you will need a patch loom? @Fu Manchu might know?

Depends on if you really insist on the fog lights working or not. If it was me doing it I wouldn’t bother wiring them in as they are illegal to use 99% of the time anyway.

 

[losh1971]

Depends on if you really insist on the fog lights working or not. If it was me doing it I wouldn’t bother wiring them in as they are illegal to use 99% of the time anyway.

True. They are useful here where we have thick fog once or twice a fortnight. Having said that I never remember to turn them on regardless. Used to be a time where every night pretty much there would be thick fog for miles on the way home to my old house. I never had fog lights then but in the pitch black of night they would have been handy. HIDs were useless and could only use low beam and hope you didn't plough down too many roos or wombats on the trip.

 

[figjam]

Depends on if you really insist on the fog lights working or not. If it was me doing it I wouldn’t bother wiring them in as they are illegal to use 99% of the time anyway.

I don't get it. Outdated rule.
Foglights are illegal ......... DRLs are not. Most of the DRLs are brighter than olde-fashioned foglights, especially after the DRLs have been modified to use at night, which is illegal, but happens anyway.
I often turn on my parkers and foglights during the day and have never been chipped about it .......... yet.

 

[lmoengnr]

I don't get it. Outdated rule.
Foglights are illegal ......... DRLs are not. Most of the DRLs are brighter than olde-fashioned foglights, especially after the DRLs have been modified to use at night, which is illegal, but happens anyway.
I often turn on my parkers and foglights during the day and have never been chipped about it .......... yet.

The foglights on my Redline have cut-offs in the housing so they don't dazzle oncoming traffic.
Not sure about pre MY12 VE's as they used H11 lamps, whereas MY12 changed to H10, they might have carried over to VF.

 

[J_D 2.0]

I don't get it. Outdated rule.

Yep, but a rule is a rule. I’d rather just leave them off and not risk a fine. I’ve been pulled up twice for mine many years ago now but luckily on both occasions I was just given a warning and breatho then sent on my way.

Don’t really want to be pulled over by a god complex cop who didn’t get a root last night and cop a fine over something as trivial as driving lights.

 

[losh1971]

There only aloud if there is fog. I'm yet to test mine in fog to even know how well they perform. I know they work as I had to test them when I replaced the bumper cover.

 

[losh1971]

Spotties and light bars are plentiful around here. At one stage it was hard to spot a car without a light bar. Thankfully those days seem to have passed. You still get the clowns who think they need the light bar on to travel from home to the shop to buy bread and milk.