DIY rear fog lights

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DIY rear fog lights

Postby patomwazi » Tue May 01, 2018 3:37 am

want to swap out the reflectors on my rear bumper with any red LED lights of same fit and shape, or similar, that would work as rear fog lights...as bright as, if not more than the brake lights(no not just the driving lights)...been looking at trailer lights on summit racing but am afraid they might not be bright enough...any suggestions?
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Postby smj999smj » Tue May 01, 2018 8:35 am

In North America, we don't have the reflectors on our rear bumpers. It's just all plastic, bumper cover.

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Postby patomwazi » Tue May 01, 2018 10:03 am

similar to this...
https://www.drivearabia.com/carprices/u ... ssic/2016/

i believe Australian spec and Euro spec R51s came with the reflectors in the bumpers too...its just one of those screw on reflectors

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Postby DanJetta » Mon May 07, 2018 12:53 pm

A lot of newer cars in Europe are using the brake lights as rear fog lights now rather than having a separate designated lamp. The switch just turns on the driver side brake lamp.

If you really want to put them into the bumper, I'd say you're on the right track with trailer LED lights. SuperBrightLEDS.com has some high-powered tail and marker lights.

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Postby FLiPMaRC » Tue May 08, 2018 12:49 pm

Does it have to red?

Have you looked into flush mount fog lights? https://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_ss_c ... JF1U72NXQ9

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Postby patomwazi » Thu Nov 22, 2018 12:58 pm

waking up an old thread....so i ended up going with superleds.com red LED trailer lights...had the EU spec light cluster that had reverese light on the right side cluster and red fog light on the left cluster.., swapped out the left to to match the right then spliced and harnesed cables around for the reverse and fog lights...

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Postby palmerwmd » Thu Nov 22, 2018 1:24 pm

Thanks for the update!! :)


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