3rd Brake Light Solution for 914, .... even if a GoWesty Part Options

[Tom_T]

Let me update this to say:

This is an economical ($25-30 part), easy & fast (1-2 hrs to stick-on & wire into tail brakelights/harness) for a quick 3rd Brake Light addition. This light unit is enclosed with wires & adhesive face to mount it to your rear window - no screws nor clips needed to mount the light & no reflecting glare off the glass.

You'll need to look at your 914 wiring diagram to see where best to wire it, but they can be dropped down behind the rear backpad & into the trunk &/or engine bay to tie into the brake lights & pull off any easy existing screw to body for ground.

This part is probably also available elsewhere - maybe cheaper - & is on sale in Jan 2015 at GoWesty (they put them on sale a couple of times a year as Monthly Specials).

There are also several other more expensive & complicated solutions discussed below & with links by other posters, if this doesn't suit your liking. .....

This should also work well for those who want to add a 3rd brake light to their 914 at reasonable cost, but you may need some extra wire to reach the taillight buckets/harness to tie into.

http://www.gowesty.com/ec_view_details.php...gory_parent_id=



I put it on our `88 Westy as per their instructions at the GoWesty website after my wife had gotten rear-ended in it a couple of years ago, & it works well & adds visibility to our "brick on wheels"! (IMG:style_emoticons/default/blink.gif)

Happy New Year! (IMG:style_emoticons/default/beerchug.gif)
Tom
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[mepstein]

You wouldn't want to do anything to getto this car, right?

[Tom_T]

You wouldn't want to do anything to getto this car, right?

Mark & Dave -

Unfortunately my 914 still looks the same as of now, although I've been able to source a bunch more needed parts for my resto (not a restomod) - which will be back to original CW & OE with only a few period correct accessories from dealers (Porsche Crest leather shift know, AM/FA/8-Track stereo, SSI HE's, as found on mine originally or added).

Hopefully to the shop this Spring! (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif)

In the meantime since joining here in `09, I've done a full resto or rehab on my son's 88 Honda Civic HB, my 85 BMW 325e & 88 Westy & some work on my wife's toy 1960 Avion T20 (like an Airstream) ... as well as a ton of renovation/resto work on our 1921 Craftsman house - so too many projects going at once!! (IMG:style_emoticons/default/blink.gif)

Oh & having to run my business in some very tough times! (IMG:style_emoticons/default/sad.gif)

So thanx for the dig Mark! (IMG:style_emoticons/default/dry.gif)

[balljoint]

You wouldn't want to do anything to getto this car, right?

Hopefully to the shop this Spring! (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif)
Oh & having to run my business in some very tough times! (IMG:style_emoticons/default/sad.gif)

This is always an exciting thing. Which shop are you taking the car to?

Oh and the whole tough business climate thing is fully understood. You have really stood tall in the days after the whole Travolta in the hotel thingy. Probably most of the members don't know what you do for a living but now at least they know you have a limit.

Good luck with taking your 914 to a shop and let's all pray for a happy ending.

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[Tom_T]

You wouldn't want to do anything to getto this car, right?

Hopefully to the shop this Spring! (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif)
Oh & having to run my business in some very tough times! (IMG:style_emoticons/default/sad.gif)

This is always an exciting thing. Which shop are you taking the car to?

Oh and the whole tough business climate thing is fully understood. You have really stood tall in the days after the whole Travolta in the hotel thingy. Probably most of the members don't know what you do for a living but now at least they know you have a limit.

Good luck with taking your 914 to a shop and let's all pray for a happy ending.

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(IMG:style_emoticons/default/huh.gif) Huh?? > "You have really stood tall in the days after the whole Travolta in the hotel thingy" I don't know what you're referring to on that Dave??

I think maybe you've got me confused with somebody else. I do real estate development consulting, which had been slow since the crash, & only now for 2015 picking up for small guys like me. In 2013-`14 & `12 I got jammed with other BS which interfered with actually getting & doing new business, so you can guess which a-holes do that "interfering BS"! (IMG:style_emoticons/default/dry.gif)

I'm going with the shop that did my Westy windows-out repaint last year & the 1980 repaint of the 914 - but this time it will be a bare metal full CW job, as opposed to the rolling resto DD level job in `80.

Drivetrain will go back to my guy Hans in Huntington Beach since 1975, which we were recently discussing will be 40 years come this summer, since he started PPIs on 10+ 914s before giving my 73 2L his blessing in Nov 75 & I closed the deal & financing 12/26/75 (2nd owner).

As you can see in Mark's 2 pix of my 914 in that earlier post, I have front & read damage dating from May `85, when a sorority bimbo ran the 914 into a wall/column in the parking structure while I was in my MBA classes - just a year after completing the 1980-84 rolling resto & driveline/suspension rebuild, plus the ravages of rust while sitting for 25-30 years in my garage.

Hopefully I'll get the other cars & trailer work under control, & the "honey doo list" additions limited ... plus some good business projects to work on for the bucks, then the 914 will move forward well.

I was originally hoping to be done for the 2014 Monterey Parade ... but that didn't even get close! (IMG:style_emoticons/default/sad.gif)

I just have too many projects to get done now before we reach retirement age (only partial for me) here in a few! (IMG:style_emoticons/default/blink.gif)

Best! (IMG:style_emoticons/default/beerchug.gif)
Tom
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