Interesting article in Autoweek today about rear fog lights for our US MINIs. Jack Pitney says “all U.S. Minis, new and used, will get rear fog lamps”.
This is an about turn from a Previous Autoweek article where Michael McHale said “We just don’t do it … No BMWs have them, either”. Except that the new 7 series does have them, even making a safety feature of their use as adaptive brake lights.
My own investigations have confirmed that if the six switch toggle panel is fitted, all the circuitry is present in the car, including the actual rear fog lights:
Testing rear fog lights on GBMINI#2
It is likely that one single bit of the “SA” configuration of the MINI (stored with other “KOMBI” data) is preventing the rear fog light function – we just need to find which bit it is!
M&I / GBMINI 