Had the stuff for near 2 weeks but kept running out of light time was home from work.

I love it though dunno why just think little things make a car

Do look good! Think they really suit darker coloured cars.

Nice touch.

any spare laminX left so i can do mine :p lol

Looks good Tas - I've currently wearing a cracked fog, so will soon be buying two new fogs & wrapping in lamin-x for protection before fitting.

Tempted to go yellow...

Looks pretty good actually!!

You can but some Amber light paint that looks like this.

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/AMBER-LIGHT-GLASS-LENS-PAINT-CONTINENTAL-DRIVING-/140522429000?pt=UK_CarsParts_Vehicles_CarParts_SM&hash=item20b7ca1a48

If you want to later, just wash it off with White Spirit

It would look even better if you remove your orange look of your indicators, i.e De-tango. :yes:

Yeah... But it's been done before

Nice work Tom, I thought it would catch on.

You can but some Amber light paint that looks like this.

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/AMBER-LIGHT-GLASS-LENS-PAINT-CONTINENTAL-DRIVING-/140522429000?pt=UK_CarsParts_Vehicles_CarParts_SM&hash=item20b7ca1a48

If you want to later, just wash it off with White Spirit

That stuff reminds me of when I used to go over to France as a kid with my parents caravanning! My dad would always paint his lights with it on his old Renault 11 before the journey... I'm sure it was exactly the same product. I bet he has remnants of it left in his shed albeit about 20 years old!

Marc

Nicely done, I do like the look of them...I've been yellow'd for a couple of months now

Andrew

see now that's really weird. If someone had said to me "yellow fog lights" i would probably have said "yeah...whatever", but seeing a photo of them, they actually look really good.

I am glad it was all my idea all along

I don't get it.

Why do you want to make your car look like a 1983 Renault 5?

I don't get it.

Why do you want to make your car look like a 1983 Renault 5?

I suppose it's a bit of a 'Marmite' thing

Serves a slight practical purpose as well for me. Yellow tinted light doesn't reflect and bounce back at you so much in foggy conditions, handy as I quite frequently drive in terrible conditions

I've just read that comment back to myself and I sound like one of the grumpy old b*stards that used to say things like that when I'd lowered my car or put a Fabia rear wiper on my Golf.

I could kind of uinderstand it on a Clio or something as yellow lights are associated with French cars but on a Skoda...... I must just be getting old

(I'm only 30 btw!)

In fact, I've just realised that some of you guys may be too young to associate yellow lights with french cars!

The last cars I can remember coming with them would be the first of the Clios in '90/'91ish. Some of you may not have been born then!

In fact, I've just realised that some of you guys may be too young to associate yellow lights with french cars!

The last cars I can remember coming with them would be the first of the Clios in '90/'91ish. Some of you may not have been born then!

Haha no, I'm 20 but I'm an old car nerd so it's ok, I know what you mean

Quite a number of modified VAG group cars in the European scene have yellow fogs it seems...we're not the only ones

Serves a slight practical purpose as well for me. Yellow tinted light doesn't reflect and bounce back at you so much in foggy conditions, handy as I quite frequently drive in terrible conditions

Correct. This site explains it very well:

Daniel Stern Lighting - What are Fog Lamps Really For?

Daniel Stern Lighting - What is Selective Yellow Light?

Edited 1 April, 201115 yr by Jim H

Correct. This site explains it very well:

Daniel Stern Lighting - What are Fog Lamps Really For?

Daniel Stern Lighting - What is Selective Yellow Light?

Interesting read that, I'm little skeptical on how the part where the guy says:

The blue-appearing lenses in many Asian-made fog lamps ("ion crystal", "gold irridium", and other such whimsical marketing names) are coated with a multilayer dichroic interference coating which passes selective-yellow light on axis, i.e., straight ahead. However, these dichroic filters don't absorb/block the blue light, they simply diffract it so it leaves the lamp off axis.

therefore: "There are generally no more yellow bulbs available in quality worth buying."

I understand in terms of achieving pure yellow, it fails. However in effectiveness for road conditions it makes up for due to suppressing horizontal wavelengths. Polarisation works that way (restricting horizontal light input), thus refraction (or glare) becomes less if its concentrated in the vertical direction. A polarised light output if you like to think of it that way

Anyway, for those who doesn't want to read the whole article the main jist of it is that yellow is easier on the eyes, and has the ability to distinguish other shades/colours easier than blue/purple tint (thats how our eyes work). Hence why you can buy yellow tinted shooting glasses and they call it "high contrast".

P.S. Im using yellow headlights and they are imo much better for night A-road driving, not so brilliant for motorway (but thats effectively going in a straight line )

Yellow fogs look awesome on your black vRS!

I've been wanting mines done for ages, but will it look good on a red car, hmmm ?

Si

I was wondering about how it would look on a red car, so I photoshopped it. Doesn't look too bad really.

Bump, so are people using tint or paint?

Would you have a link to hand for the tint you used? (ebay preferably, too cheap for lamin x )

I wouldn't recommend paint tbh. Its hard to get an even shade over the pair of them, so one always turns out darker than the other. I did it on my Golf3 a few years ago with tint spray, and it turned out crap! Much prefer the laminex.

I used 1.50 tint film off bay

Thanks, think ill stick with film then.

I used 1.50 tint film off bay

From HK/China? have they melted yet? :p I've got Korban's (Karl) homecoming light kit so fogs will be used more often.