Fog Light Switch Location

I just scored a new-in-box set of CIBIE Type 35 fog lights, complete with switchgear and relay, as part of Euro look conversion project. Can anyone here tell me where the on/off switch and flash-to-pass lever were located in the cockpit Euro QV's? It's not intuitively obvious, and I have looked at interior photos of late Euro spec 308's to no avail.

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I can the logic of that. The dash is pretty tight and crowded as it is, and ergonomic placement of switches was never an Italian strong suit. These are the switches that came with my Cibies. One is the on-and-off--that is pretty easy to place, but the flash-to-pass is going to take some thought.

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Yeah, there is a strange little hole in the dash panel, just below the ignition switch. There may not be room for the stock OEM Ferrari switch box behind it (they are like two inches deep) but if I take any old chrome toggle switch and grind the end until I can fit one of the little lollipop bakelite switch covers, it'll will look pretty close.

I'm thinking I may install the flash-to-pass lever in that funny little pocket outboard of the steering column where the older 308's had a gauge pod. In fact, they might both end up there. It's possible I'll have to shorten that lever though, so I don't hit it with my knee though.

 

Hmm, Ferrari's thinking: "our clients don't really drive their cars in fog, if they can avoid it, but they do like to PASS people." And in Europe, people understand that flashing your lights isn't analogous to giving someone the finger, as American drivers seem to think.

My intended use-case does, in fact, includes having the foglights on solidly on. And my steering column switch assembly has been on borrowed time for several years now, so I may just avoid messing with it this time, and install the on/off switch and a flash-to-pass momentary toggle (Or a single-three way for both functions) in that useless little pocket by the door. That way, I'm not cutting anything, and when I finally bite the bullet and replace that steering column switch, I can revisit how I want the thing wired.

If I'm fabbing up a custom panel to fill that pocket, I might as well add a voltmeter too, while I'm at it. I'm kind of surprised the car didn't come with one in the first place. I think they corrected that in the 328 . . .