Car Lighting Systems

Headlamps, rear lamps, front and rear fog lamps, reverse lamps, and high-mounted stop lamps.

Overview

Modern Group's lighting systems are built on more than three decades of experience in automotive lighting design, manufacturing, assembly, testing, and production development. The range covers a vehicle's main exterior lamps, from headlamps and fog lamps at the front to rear lamps, reverse lamps, and high-mounted stop lamps at the back, each developed to the UN regulations that apply to it.

Product Range

Exterior lamp assemblies

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Headlamp Assembly

The headlamp is one of the most important parts of a vehicle for safety, function, and visual identity. It can combine low beam, high beam, daytime running light (DRL), position lamp, and turn indicator. Besides lighting the road, it largely decides how well the driver sees and how easily the vehicle is seen.

Technology: Headlamps started with halogen bulbs and conventional reflectors and moved on through HID/Xenon, projector, LED, light guide, AFS, and Matrix LED. In the latest generations, HD/Pixel LED, Micro-LED, and digital lighting give finer control over each part of the beam, better visibility, and more advanced lighting scenarios.
Design and Manufacturing: Optical engineering, thermal management, glare control, precise light distribution, durability, and suitability for mass production are weighed together with styling, so the lamp meets safety requirements and still fits the vehicle's design language.

RegulationsUN R149UN R148UN R48

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Rear Lamp Assembly

The rear lamp is central to a vehicle's safety, light signalling, and visual identity. It can include position, stop, turn, reversing, and rear fog functions. As well as signalling to other road users, it does much to shape the graphic and character of the vehicle's rear.

Technology: Rear lamps have moved from filament and halogen bulbs with conventional reflectors to LED, LED modules, light guides, and dynamic turn signals. Newer OLED, Micro-LED, and pixel lighting allow finer light graphics, more even output, and more advanced lighting scenarios.
Design and Manufacturing: Light distribution and uniformity, colour, luminous intensity, thermal management, durability, and mass-production feasibility are all considered alongside the vehicle's styling and visual identity.

RegulationsUN R148UN R48

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Front Fog Lamp

The front fog lamp improves visibility and safety in poor weather such as fog, heavy rain, and snow. Its controlled beam lights the road surface better and helps keep glare down.

Technology: Fog lamps have moved from halogen bulbs and conventional reflectors to projector, LED, LED module, and light guide designs. More recent designs add adaptive lighting, cornering light, and pixel LED for more precise, smarter control of the beam.
Design and Manufacturing: The design work covers optical engineering, glare control, intensity and light distribution, thermal management, and durability, along with how the lamp integrates into the front of the vehicle.

RegulationsUN R149UN R48

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Rear Fog Lamp

The rear fog lamp makes the vehicle easier to see when visibility drops sharply, in fog, heavy rain, or snow, and it matters a great deal for safety in those conditions.

Technology: It has moved from conventional and halogen bulbs with classic reflectors to LED, LED modules, and advanced optical systems. In newer designs the fog function can sit inside the rear lamp graphic, and light guides and LED layouts give it a modern, consistent look as well as the required performance.
Design and Manufacturing: Colour, intensity and light distribution, visibility, thermal management, and durability are balanced against design and mass-production requirements.

RegulationsUN R148UN R48

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Reverse Lamp and Retro-Reflector

The reverse lamp with integrated retro-reflector brings function, safety, and optical design together in one unit. The lamp signals that the vehicle is moving backwards, and the retro-reflector shows the vehicle's presence and size in the dark.

Technology: The assembly has moved from conventional and halogen bulbs to LED, LED modules, and light guides. Recent generations use signature lighting, integrated light graphics, and advanced LED technology for slim, even, and distinctive designs.
Design and Manufacturing: Work on the unit covers light distribution and uniformity, colour, luminous intensity, thermal management, durability, and mass-production feasibility, and it has to match the design of the rear lamp.

RegulationsUN R148UN R48

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High-Mounted Stop Lamp (3rd Brake Light)

The high-mounted stop lamp is an important part of a vehicle's lighting and safety system. Mounted above the main stop lamps, it gives drivers behind a braking warning they are more likely to see.

Technology: It has moved from conventional and halogen bulbs to LED, LED modules, and light guides. Multi-point LEDs and advanced optics now allow slim designs that blend into the body.
Design and Manufacturing: Intensity and uniformity, response time, colour, durability, and mass-production feasibility are considered, and the lamp has to fit the design of the body.

RegulationsUN R148UN R48

UN R48: installation of lighting and light-signalling devices · UN R148: light-signalling devices · UN R149: road illumination devices

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