I have a 2011 SE+ estate, which is not fitted with front fog lights. When I bought the car I asked about original lights being fitted to the car, however I was told that this was not possible unless a complete new front bumper was purchased which would amount to getting towards £!000 when painted up!!! Is this correct and has anyone after fitted the original Skoda lights??

Hmmmmmm, sounds unlikely. There was someone on here with a 1.6MPI who retro-fitted front fogs and I'm pretty sure he didn't need a new bumper to do it. I don't think he ever wired them in though...

I was thinking along these lines myself, as our SE is the same

Oh dear, another dealer that doesn't have a clue :no:

The front foglights and DRL assembly will fit straight into the bumper of the S, SE, SE Plus and Greenline. All you need to do is first remove the black plastic blanking plates.

Getting them to work is another story as the wiring won't be there and the headlight switch won't have the position for turning on the front fogs. The car's CANBUS will also need coding to activate the DRL's and fogs.

Thanks for that update!! I was told that the duff gen came from Skoda Technical themselves!! I was hoping that there would be a generic wiring loom so all I would need was the lamp units, without DRL'S and the light switch. I will ponder that one in that case.

I´m currently doing this upgrade to my own Octavia 2011. What you need is:

New lightswitch

New BCM (since the existing one does´nt have the pins to fit foglights. Check VCDS; must be a xxx085 in it now, you will need a xxx087)

Pair of foglights

Wiring for the foglights

Everything can be bought at Skodateile.cz fairly cheap, althoug I found a new BCM from a crashed Octavia very cheap.

You will also need VCDS to activate the foglights and code the new BCM. And then replace BCM, run wires for the foglights and one wire from the lightswitch to the BCM.

It sounds complicated, but it should´nt be. I did a lot of investigating, and now have the right numbers where to fit the wires to the BCM. Can post them here, if interested.

If you wouldn't mind. It seems like rocket science but I'm sure it isn't as long I understand it properly!! Many thanks

Oh dear, another dealer that doesn't have a clue :no:

Silver, old son, I'd never normally disagree with you but:

The dealer is out to make money, not help the customer If he can sell a £1400 job (parts and labour) and only really spend £200 on it, profit of £1200! :)

Don't know about you, but I'd run with that sort of profit margin :D

Edited 21 April, 201214 yr by RainbowFore

I was thinking along these lines myself, as our SE is the same

Obviously to be used as required by the weather/driving conditions, not for the me,me, look at me!!, I've got my fog-lights on...... In daylight!!!! Aren't I clever!! school of thought.

My original thought for wanting to fit the lights was gobsmackingly enough for use in such conditions as fog!!!!

As the possible shortsightedness of the dealers; I am fully aware though that they are in business to make money, however if the price had been reasonable they would have got my money!!

Obviously to be used as required by the weather/driving conditions, not for the me,me, look at me!!, I've got my fog-lights on...... In daylight!!!! Aren't I clever!! school of thought.

.....or, as is common on many VAG cars these days, they're being used as DRLs.

Perhaps even more common is people mistaking DRLs as fog lights, it's easily done, just look at the positioning in the pic the Silver posted.

If it's just "look at me's" the tell-tale would be that the front and rear sidelights are on too.

Those little lights in the bottom of the front bumper now have several functions:

Fog lights

DRLs

Cornering Lights

(I think there's a setting in VCDS to have them on when you put the car into reverse as well.)

........it is enough to get people easily confused by them.

Silver, old son, I'd never normally disagree with you but:

The dealer is out to make money, not help the customer If he can sell a £1400 job (parts and labour) and only really spend £200 on it, profit of £1200! :)

Don't know about you, but I'd run with that sort of profit margin :D

Hmm. I get your point but the dealer is never going to make money by charging £1,400 to retrofit fog lights.

Repeated and regular smaller profit margins are better than no profit at all!

I'd also argue that it is possible to help the customer AND make money, helping the customer ensures repeated profitable business.

To me the dealer quoted £1,400 because they don't want to do the job?

I'd retrofit the foglights simply because they look better than the black plastic blanking plates.

Call me vain, accuse me of 'keeping up with the Jones' I don't care, a car with front fogs looks better than the same car without them, irrespective of if they actually work or not