Hi everyone. In the middle of changing my fogs to LED.

Am I supposed to remove the metal bulb surround bit inside the glass? Seems to ruin the light for LEDs.

Thanks in advance!

Carl

the metal bit inside holds the bulb holder to the silver reflective bit in the light

hope you understood that lol

and wont leds be useless in fog ??

Edited 17 February, 201313 yr by Holmesie

Haha funny enough I just realised that after I prized it off! Went back on easily tho so no probs. they are bright LED's but more for aesthetics to be honest.

Cheers

i tried doing it to mine lol got some hugeeee led's and managed to make the bulb holder stay in place by cutting the ring terminal off a m12 yellow crimp and cutting it in to a 'u' shape it worked pretty well for ages but i then went to yellow h3's so put it back standard.

suppose you could use wire or something similar just to loop over the lugs to hold the bulb holder in place.

if your defo wanting to keep led fogs you could also tigerseal the bulb holder in place

Ooooh, could you get some photos please?

In my car, the full beams are used a DRLs (at a reduced brightness), and I'd love to get the white affect of xenons, but can't use an HID kit. I don't need them to give good output as I've bi-xenons for full-beam, but haven't seen any decent LED photos yet.

They aren't as bright as I'd hoped! So I think il remove the cage bit at some point.

triggerfish I will get a pic up tomorrow mate

you can get h3 leds with silly amounts of smds off ebay so id suppose the more led's the brighter they would be

if you remove the cage you should be able to get something like these in:

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/2X-Car-H3-102-LED-3528-SMD-Super-White-Auto-Headlight-Bulb-Fog-Lamp-Light-DC-12V-/400334572142?pt=UK_CarsParts_Vehicles_CarParts_SM&hash=item5d35ccca6e

102 smd's in each light

To be fair, that LED one only puts out 700 lumens, a halogen bulb is about 1,500 and xenons 3,000 lumens, so it'll never be as bright.

that was the first on the list there are loadsss of different led bulbs on ebay

102 smd's haha would probably have to remove the glass lense too to fit those in haha!

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/2x-H3-XENON-WHITE-HID-9-LED-FOG-LIGHT-BULBS-6000K-/180786926757?pt=UK_CarsParts_Vehicles_CarParts_SM&hash=item2a17bd94a5

These look like the ones I have. Think I need bigger ones!

i have some similar to that as sidelights 8 smd not 9 lol they are pretty good as sides as youve said bit dim for the fogs

I wonder what these would be like!

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/CREE-Xenon-W-LED-Car-Fog-Light-Bulb-H3-11w-LED-Bike-Moped-Headlight-DRL-Vauxhall-/261168392513?pt=UK_CarsParts_Vehicles_CarParts_SM&hash=item3cced96941

They seem to work quite well in those pics.

Did you just do a straight swap or did you have to connect a resistor in at all??

Wouldn't mind doing this to, never use my fogs in the fog anyway!

Thats the same reason i did it Phil. Thought they would be better off for use as DLR's when the weather is dull.

Just a straight swap. Only pain in the A is that the bumper has to come off to get to the fog bulbs but it didnt take long at all in the end.

Going to remove the bulb holder cages when i get a chance to make them even brighter.

Yeh it's pretty quick to remove the bumper so not too much hassle.

Would be good to see the difference without the cage.

you dont have to remove the bumper??

i didnt when i did mine

pull off fog grill

unclip back

pull out the reflective inner

un plug bulb

take inner out through fog surround hole

change bulb

then do opp to put them back together

fiddley but will only take like 20mins to do both bulbs

you can get h3 leds with silly amounts of smds off ebay so id suppose the more led's the brighter they would be

if you remove the cage you should be able to get something like these in:

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/2X-Car-H3-102-LED-3528-SMD-Super-White-Auto-Headlight-Bulb-Fog-Lamp-Light-DC-12V-/400334572142?pt=UK_CarsParts_Vehicles_CarParts_SM&hash=item5d35ccca6e

102 smd's in each light

Try putting that in an actual fog light...

The hole simply is not big enough to fit the 'head' through...

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