Wanted: How to change FOG's to HID's

[Sandy-m2]

Ok so I know its lots for just a fog light that you only use when its foggy but the look so yellow compared to the dipped beams.

i've heared that you need to re-seal bits but has someone got a how too.

Thanks

Sandy

[georigg]

Sandy,

Save your money and buy Xenon bulbs, go on to Ebay and put Xenon in the search box under car spares.

Make sure you get 6500K bulbs if you can, these have blue envelopes(the glass bit) but the lights are very, very white, just like HID's but a tenth of the cost.

The blue glass filters out the part of the light spectrum that produces "yellow" light. You can also get 5000K and 4600K bulbs but go for 6500K as the light is much, much better!

I cannot remember the supplier I have used, but I will post again tomorrow.......do NOT get clear glass envelope bulbs, the lighting is very little different from normal.....I have two sitting in my garage which I will not use as I cannot see any difference in the light quality........there would appear to be a couple of sellers on Ebay selling what I think are standard bulbs as xenon.

I think the fog lights are H3 bulbs, but dont take this as gospel.

Ive also attached a Word doc which I downloaded from here, showing the alternatives for headlight and dip beam, which you can also get in Xenon types.

Hope you find this helpful.

[uk-rich]

hmmm, i'd have to disagree with that, i say save your pennies for a little longer and get proper HID's, they are so much better/brighter/whiter than any "normal bulb"

[jamesmark]

hmmm, i'd have to disagree with that, i say save your pennies for a little longer and get proper HID's, they are so much better/brighter/whiter than any "normal bulb"

:yeahthat:

Before I sold my car I was going to be doing this, utterly pointless buying normal bulbs that claim to be supre white, brilliant white etc etc. Go HID all the way (except maybe full beams)

[Gamer]

I had HID's in all my lights( Mains/Hi beams and fogs) before I hit the wall. I will have the same again in this new set of lights I have here. Looked much more uniform and when I had them all on I could see for quite some distance (All were 6000K). ;) Only problem is finding room for all the ballasts.


Fogs are H3's, You will need to do a bit of trimming if memory serves me correctly, to get the H3 HID's's to fit. Nothing major though.

[mikeyb10supra]

Joe, do you know what sidelights were of hand??

[Gamer]

I can't remember mate. I will have to dig back into my post history to find it again.

At a guess I think they were also H3's, I could be wrong though.

[Sandy-m2]

Thank you all for your input, i orderd my H3 HID's last night and then started to worry about fitting but if it's just a little trimming i'll be all good.

Gamer did you pigy back the power for the ballast or take an individual line for each set??

Thanks

sandy

[Gamer]

Sorry mate you would have to ask Matt Harwood as he did all of my electrical work. ;)

[Thorin]

Joe, do you know what sidelights were of hand??

Side lights are W5W if I recall correctly.

[Sandy-m2]

Sorry mate you would have to ask Matt Harwood as he did all of my electrical work. ;)

He justs keeps popping up lol!! hopefully he will see this thread.