Fah-Fah-Foooglights! LED?

MyNeonSaysHi · Post by **MyNeonSaysHi** » Sun Sep 07, 2008 1:16 pm

I am about to change foglight bulbs. I originally had the stockers in my car when I picked it up last year. Wasn't bright enough. So I got a set of the yellowfoglight bulbs from texonstore.com. They are holding up great and work fine. But I am growing out of the JDMness of them. I want a different color. Perhaps a bright white or a light blueish color. I really want to do it now because I got LED side marker bulbs that I paid a small fortune for from ByVampDesign.com and they are a bright white with a tad bit of blue hue, but they look sick!

Here is a pict before I got the LED sidemarkers, gives you an idea of the 3k yellow bulbs and the 4300k HID kit with the headlights. You can see the yellow a bit better on the right headlight dues to the angle of the picture.

The SRT-4 foglight bulb is a 893 by the way. I went back to the the texonstore and saw these:

http://www.texonstore.com/led-bulbs/led ... ystem.html
They offer them in a 893 too. Never seen these before on a car yet.

Anyone have any expierence with them?

Or I could go with these at a lot cheaper price:
http://www.texonstore.com/xenon-halogen ... -bulb.html

Comments/ideas welcome.

thanks!

LilSparkPlug · Post by **LilSparkPlug** » Sun Sep 07, 2008 2:06 pm

Those are interesting I haven't seen them before. My question would be are they wide enough to actually reflect light or will it just be a direct beam.

MyNeonSaysHi · Post by **MyNeonSaysHi** » Sun Sep 07, 2008 2:45 pm

I might have to be the test bunny.

Fuzzyneon · Post by **Fuzzyneon** » Sun Sep 07, 2008 3:02 pm

I dont think the light output is gonna be good for LED
my friend has leds in his tails and you see them but they dont reflect as good as a bulb or a HID

LilSparkPlug · Post by **LilSparkPlug** » Sun Sep 07, 2008 3:07 pm

Yeah thats my thing, unless its a seriously strong wide angle LED you aren't going to get much light output from them, but if they are cheap enough give em a go!

MyNeonSaysHi · Post by **MyNeonSaysHi** » Sun Sep 07, 2008 5:11 pm

$55... I guess I am gonna have to google them and see them installed. I bet some Honda's have em installed.

The other plug and plays I listed are only $15. Well I don't really care too much for the light output. I have HID headlights that take care of that. I just want something that looks bright, cool and different. :S

Fuzzyneon · Post by **Fuzzyneon** » Sun Sep 07, 2008 5:55 pm

it will probably look cool but dont depend on it for fogtlight output but yeah they will light up and work Lol

MyNeonSaysHi · Post by **MyNeonSaysHi** » Sun Sep 07, 2008 6:03 pm

Heres a sweet video I found. Damn I wish I could do something like this with my car!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cg2e35P4nUc

The foglights are composed of only LED lights!

They don;t really produce any lumens.

See below.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q1stfvbU ... re=related

danman132x · Post by **danman132x** » Mon Sep 08, 2008 1:12 pm

It would be pretty nice, but like people said above, light output would be minimal. I'd rather put in some colored halogen bulbs to get a blue color with some light output, over a LED fog with almost no output.

LilSparkPlug · Post by **LilSparkPlug** » Mon Sep 08, 2008 8:32 pm

All that BMW has is multi colored Halos. Buy the projector foglights with halo and put two bulbs in them instead of one, a white and an amber, then use two switches to power them. CCL makes halos in different sizes/colors to use in headlights as well.

MyNeonSaysHi · Post by **MyNeonSaysHi** » Tue Sep 09, 2008 11:02 am

^ That would be sweet. But uhhh no offense I am not really a fan of the projectors, probably because I have a silver car.

It would be pretty nice, but like people said above, light output would be minimal. I'd rather put in some colored halogen bulbs to get a blue color with some light output, over a LED fog with almost no output.

I think you are right. I posted this on other forums and they are saying it will look bright, but it won't really push out any light.

LilSparkPlug · Post by **LilSparkPlug** » Tue Sep 09, 2008 1:49 pm

Well lol you said you wished you could do it to your car I just gave you an option as to how. Why don't you like them? You don't like the way they would look on a silver car?

MyNeonSaysHi · Post by **MyNeonSaysHi** » Tue Sep 09, 2008 11:52 pm

LilSparkPlug wrote:Well lol you said you wished you could do it to your car I just gave you an option as to how. Why don't you like them? You don't like the way they would look on a silver car?

They look good at night, but the design of them is just too far out there and wouldn't look that clean during the day with no lights on.

I ordered the $15 bulbs too btw. Texonstore has good stuff, I had bought my yellow ones from them and they are holding up great.

Paralyzer · Post by **Paralyzer** » Wed Sep 10, 2008 4:33 pm

you would be suprised at how wide one of those can be. I have seen them on another forum and they are bright as crap! They put them in a retrofitted projector for their fogs and it looks great. I will try to find that thread again and post it up on here.