Today's mod - HID foglights
#71
Funny I was thinking the same thing lol. Once I do get around to getting those adjusted I feel sorry for the poor SOB that has to deal with me turning down my high beams if I have my fogs on when he's coming towards me lol.
Last edited by jiggleo; 01-24-2010 at 12:16 AM.
#72
I haven't gotten beamed by anyone (my lows are aimed right and my fogs, if anything, need to be brought up a little). I have, however, gotten out on an unlit back road and the biggest difference I see is the intensity of light just in front of the car where all four beams mix. The light pattern is actually greater than 180 degrees too, since the angle of the fog lenses allows them to throw light a little backward. Given that a 6000k bulb has over four times the luminosity of a halogen bulb, it's not surprising that the light reaches a lot farther off to the sides than the halogen fogs ever hoped to. The combined area of illumination is very large. I can practically light up the doorbell buttons on houses I pass, sitting 30-40 feet back from the road.
#73
hey mark you should put up bigger pictures lol. you two have some serious light on the ground lol. i forget if the fogs are adjustable left and right or up and down but the thing on the side of the housing facing the front is the adjuster. i just met a kid with a B6 1.8t 2night with a turbo that glows at idle. anybody wanna do some work on a 4 banger for a change?
#74
Mark can use the adjusters easily enough since he's a facelift car and has all the OEM mount points to index them. Since I'm pre-facelift I don't have that so I'll have to shim either the mount bolts or the brackets I made to secure them. Plus I'm lowered too so that exacerbates the need to aim them up a bit more.
As for the 1.8T you met, do you really even need to ask? Bring it
As for the 1.8T you met, do you really even need to ask? Bring it
#75
hey mark you should put up bigger pictures lol. you two have some serious light on the ground lol. i forget if the fogs are adjustable left and right or up and down but the thing on the side of the housing facing the front is the adjuster. i just met a kid with a B6 1.8t 2night with a turbo that glows at idle. anybody wanna do some work on a 4 banger for a change?
#79
I haven't gotten beamed by anyone (my lows are aimed right and my fogs, if anything, need to be brought up a little). I have, however, gotten out on an unlit back road and the biggest difference I see is the intensity of light just in front of the car where all four beams mix. The light pattern is actually greater than 180 degrees too, since the angle of the fog lenses allows them to throw light a little backward. Given that a 6000k bulb has over four times the luminosity of a halogen bulb, it's not surprising that the light reaches a lot farther off to the sides than the halogen fogs ever hoped to. The combined area of illumination is very large. I can practically light up the doorbell buttons on houses I pass, sitting 30-40 feet back from the road.
#80
Paging ImTheDevil:
I read through the entire thread and I'm assuming the HID fog light upgrade mod uses non-projector fog housings (face-lift fog lights are non-projector right?).
If it is non-projector, it's obviously working out okay?
I have 6000k HID in 2 piece Depo projector housings which have been awesome. What I would like to do is put 3000k HID fogs as I do a lot of highway driving in the winter. I thought I had to find projector housings for the fogs so I wouldn't blind people.
Hopefully you don't mind straightening this out for me.
I read through the entire thread and I'm assuming the HID fog light upgrade mod uses non-projector fog housings (face-lift fog lights are non-projector right?).
If it is non-projector, it's obviously working out okay?
I have 6000k HID in 2 piece Depo projector housings which have been awesome. What I would like to do is put 3000k HID fogs as I do a lot of highway driving in the winter. I thought I had to find projector housings for the fogs so I wouldn't blind people.
Hopefully you don't mind straightening this out for me.