i just bought a shaved CF trunk, and it has no spot for the 3rd brake light
should i not worry about it, or should i rig one in the rear window?
or i could make the red rings around the reverse lights brake lights...

any input would be helpful!
thanks

-Casey

 

I don't know about NC but in Missouri, all you need are stoping lights at the corners of the car and have to be visible from the rear. The 3rd brake light is just an added light for safety.

 

Im pretty sure you dont need it....I see cars all the time without them.

 

yea i am always behind someone that thier 3rd light it out. i know some places it illegal. but i dont think cops around here would pay any attention to that.
well the might.
they have nothing better to do. they ALWAYS follow me around after midnight.

 

Because that's when the drunks and street racers are out.

 

alot of old cars dont have it .. i dont think its illegal ...

 

true that.
any input on my question though?

it might be that if the car came with it from the factory, you need it on there. so idk.

 

its illegal but i will be a sport and take the cf trunk off youre hands lol

 

If the car came with one a properly working CHMSL is required by law.

 

no law against it in ontario......i thought there was but for sure, you dont need it by law

 

nice try

what is this?

yea i dont feel like getting a ticket. maybe i will not have one untill i get pulled over... then say i ordered one any maybe get out of the ticket lol.
if i get pulled over, then i know im getting a ticket for window tint, and the tint visor

 

errrrr. it bothers me when people post things like "its illegal" like its one big blanket statement. Its a state by state designation. the State of MD does not require a chmsl. it only requires the corner brake lights. many states will state that if a car was not produced with a safety equipment piece it does not require one (ex; side mirrors).
If you don't figure it out in the next couple days I could try and figure it out, but no gauruntees. Let me know. I'm pretty good with looking up traffic laws.

chmsl=center high mounted stop light

 

I thought that the Third Brake Light was now a federaly mandated item on cars.

lol...

CHMSL is Center High Mount Stop Light

 

sorry. didnt mean to bother anyone. and thats the reason why i said "in NC"
cuz i know its state by state. i can search more. if not ill let you know.

 

a friend of mine here in PA just got a cf trunk without the 3rd brake light hole. you wont get pulled over without it but if your car came with one you have to have one for inspection. so he just rigged one up in the rear window for inspection then took it back out after.

not sure about your state but thought id share incase yours is the same.

 

found it.
bottom of page 41
http://www.ncdot.org/DMV/vehicle_ser...nforcement.pdf

 

Um yeah I'm gonna say it's technically legal, but unless the guy doing inspection knows a cobalt has a 3rd brake light, you will be fine.

 

but dont most cars now have them?
and it being an 09 seems they would expect one to be there.

 

Why don't you keep your stocker for inspection.

A cop won't know that law.

 

yea i will but in order to put it in the back window i need to extend the wires...
or are you saying the whole trunk? i will be keeping the stocker.
i know someone that might can pass it cuz he will pass me with my window tint.

 

after 1992 its federal law that new vehicles be equipped with a CHMSL.

 

thats what i thought. thankyou

 

i only know that because my bronco has a removable hard shell for the back. there is a CHMSL integrated into it after 1992, and Ford removed the literature on removing the top from the owners manual because it's technically illegal, because then you no longer have a CHMSL.

 

interesting lol.
you can still take it off but they dont tell you how too.
thanks bro

 

oh, i still take it off, you just have to buy security torx bits haha