For those that have done this and use the fog lights, I have some questions. Since the 9005 does not have a shadow tip, how bad is the uncontrolled light coming from the tip? Any glare back when using in rain/snow/really foggy nights? And lastly, if you have been running them often and for a long time, did the houseing hold up? I don't know if the foglight houseings are the same for 2005-2010, or when the redesign came in 2008 when Chrysler moved the fog lamp down if they made the houseing bigger, or smaller, or neither. If anything, I hoped it was maybe bigger to help with the possible heat issue of the 9005 in that space since the fog lamp is plastic.
Outstanding. Thank you for the info Looks like it's time to by auxiliary lighting then. Thanks again for the wisdom, as out of the 16 vehicles I have owned prior, this WK is BY FAR my favorite, and I don't wanna mess it up
You using the Noykia bulbs? If so, I thought their yellow fog bulbs were actually closer to 55-60 watts, instead of the usual 65 watt 9005. Which may explain why the houseing has held up. I don't really want yellow. I would like to stay between 3800-4100K on the color. As that range has worked for my vision the best under all weather conditions I have encountered. I am not quite sold on doing the HID switch yet, as I am concerned about the cutoff using the factory halogen reflector. The factory design is very good, just would like another 500-700 lumens per light and it would be perfect.
1 was enough for me. Too bright and that would be annoying. These LEDs have a 30° spread which is enough and pretty wide coming from the overhead console.
I didn't want lights everywhere. I only wanted the light to be in the cup holders and the tip of the arm rest so light shines in there when I open it too. :thumbsup:
More info/pics/videos in the other thread as soon as I get my interior back from LXHarness. :joe:
The HIR's are at the top of my list. But again, it is a 65Watt flamethrower that others have said the stock houseing/lens will not hold up to. The HID set-up would be the way to go, as I can get a 4300K color that I like best, but I just would need to somehow be able to put a cut-off on the stock foglight lens assembly. I thought about just getting the top 1/3rd of the outside lens itself "tinted" real dark to cut down the glare as so it would not bother folks. All this feedback has been wonderful, thank you
The HID set-up would be the way to go, as I can get a 4300K color that I like best, but I just would need to somehow be able to put a cut-off on the stock foglight lens assembly.
I thought about this actually. I would want to use Hella Micro DE fogs with an H3 HID conversion. I have seen those and they are impressive fog lights with HID. I just don't know how I would get them in the stock lamp houseing and make it look right. I have been looking at TRS website about retro fitting. Good stuff. I'd like to cut and seal from the back of the houseing, instead of baking it to take off the front lense. I just wish somebody would make a damn +50 9145 bulb and I would have all I want at that point.