One of the first things I noticed about the stock RL is the difference in color temperature between the HID low beams and the fog lights. On the wall in the garage, in the reflection of tailgates in traffic, on people's bumpers at stop lights- everywhere I looked I noticed white headlights and dull yellow fog lights. I'm in a situation right now of buying a house, so I don't want to spend a lot of money on mods. I didn't want to chance spending over $30 on halogens that may not be white enough for my desire, and I definitely didn't want to drop the $$$ on an HID upgrade. So I came across these:


68 SMD LED H11s. $8 a pair on ebay with shipping. Now these are in no way a performance mod as they output about 20% of the lumens 55W halogens do, and would be put to shame next to an HID. If you regularly use your fog lights to help you see in fog, PLEASE DO NOT SWAP YOUR LIGHTS FOR THESE. They aren't going to illuminate the road 5 feet in front of you . Being in central Texas where I might drive in fog once a year, I don't feel like I lost much usability. Also, the HIDs are low enough that I feel comfortable if fog were to roll in.

They do however, complete the look I was going for. Here is a side by side comparison with the left light being a stock halogen and the right being the white LEDs. (Sorry for the blurry pic.)



The advertisement said they were a 6000k color temperature. They are slightly whiter than the HIDs, and almost appear to be blueish. Here is a daylight pic with both in.


I purposely noticed every chance I got on the way to work this morning, and I can certainly tell a difference in the look. Overall I am pleased with the look for now. Someday I will probably do an HID upgrade, but I can't justify spending the money right now. My next step for the fogs is to find a way to have them come on with the parking lights, so I can have them on with or without the low beams.

 

I had the same unit installed in my car b4.... now I upgraded to this one:

http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/ws/eB...%3AMERFB%3AIID

120 SMD LED.... it's a wii bit brighter

 

I put a pair of Hoen Xenonmatch bulbs in my fogs. The color is very close to the HIDs and the output is as good as the originals.

LL

 

How much did you pay for the Hoens?

 

I used to have MTEC bulbs in the fogs that matched the stock HID lows very nicely. Paid about $25 on ebay and you get more lumens than the LEDs if you are interested. Have since gone with the DDM hids now and love them.

 

Don't remember what I paid but they're available HERE for $29.99 (probably what I paid).

LL

 

Did u have to take the bracket inside the foglight housing out?

 

I had to open the heat shield by bending it. I used a small screwdriver through the empty bulb hole to pry each side open a little to accompany the larger circumference of the LED H11s.

 

I suppose that for the price they do what you wanted them to do, but they have slim ballast HID kits any base on eBay for about $30 shipped.....I installed 2 sets on a few cars with non HID projectors, and they work flawless, about 6 months and counting.........

 

I have since upgraded to slim ballast H11 HIDs. :wink:

 

I would have more motivation for HID fogs if the lamp housing/reflector actually pointed light somewhere useful. After all, they are fogs and therefore bias their use in such conditions. I.E. low Kelvin and wide dispersion. In fact, they are so wide that most of the light goes into adjacent lanes and serves no purpose to the driver beyond what the headlights do already.
If you want to utilize HID in the fogs then the reflector should be changed to accomodate the different location of the lamp and to direct light in front of you instead of beside you.

 

I want selective yellow, slim ballast HID fogs. Now, that would be useful.

 

A projector retrofit is next on the list.

 

I threw in some Nokya 2500K H11s, they look sweet. Illuminate the rd nicely too

 

How are the nokyas? Is it yellow? I got some JDM 3000k fogs but for some reason the pattern on the floor isn't matching...I ordered some putco jet yellow halogens cause I heard its pretty yellow! haha

 

They are YELLOW! My cousin and I were making jokes about me pissing all over the road LOL They are very yellow.