S2 Elise - Adapt rear lights to use the "spare" inner light mounting

The S2 elise was meant to have all the rear light clusters lit up, but some crappy EU law forced Lotus to disable the inner clusters. I think I understand what your wanting to do,in so much as you want all four rear reds to be lit?? if this is the case it can be done. First off, you need to look at the rear lights from inside the boot,the spare bulb mounting you refer to is probably blanked off,if so it is a real pita to do and in my opininon not worth the trouble. However very early S2's weren't blanked off as Lotus had a few light clusters made as they originally intended and they just removed the bulbs.If your car is the earlier type then you can purchase the bulbs and holders and just plug them into the loom for connection purposes. If its a later S2, first you will have to source the bulb holders and bulbs(not easy),then you'll have to splice into the loom for a feed and then you will have to carefully grind out the blanks in the light cluster to take the holders....

The inner units hold the fog lights but Lotus use a dual filament bulb in there so you need to get a feed to the other filament, which you can take from the outer units, On most S2's when the lights are on it would look like this:

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The other half of the inner units are the biggest problem as they are normally blanked off and they need carefully drilling out to accept a suitable bulb holder, if yours aren't blanked off then you just need a bulb holder and again need to get a feed to it, this can be taken from the loom that supplies the outer units.

The bulb holders are notoriously difficult to get hold of, but Nissan and Merc have used them in the past so maybe a trip to thier parts dept armed with one of the Lotus ones as a match might do the trick(Lotus only supply them with the light units and they are £££). Nick Adams the Lotus tecchy guru said that running all the rears from the same loom won't cause any problems as the car was made to run like this from day one. So doing all the above won't overload any wiring/ fuses etc and you should end up with rear lights as in the pic above.