Wally-World-Fogs-SICK!

IllNinja · 11-04-2009, 10:15 PM

Ok well I just came from walmart and they have quite a few to choose from.... Ive seen blazers and some other kind. I need to install fog lights asap cuz im driving my xb 1000 miles and it should help out a lot. ( Moving up north)

gravebox · 11-05-2009, 01:37 AM

where's "north"? if you're comming into the washington area, the foggy season is starting to die down since it's starting to go from wet muggy nights to dry cold nights.

anyway, moving north means more debris on the roads. because of this, i would recommend any set of fog lights that have impact resistant lenses. i have a set of Pilot fogs. they're about 15 bucks, about 2.5 inches in diameter and have impact resistant lenses on them. not ALOT of light output, but they have some powerful beams that work great for seeing the edges of the road which is all a fog light is really meant for.

IllNinja · 11-05-2009, 11:55 AM

Im moving to the mountain areas of PA. Im going from Fl to Pa on Nov 20. Ima go to walmart again later and check out what they have again. When I buy them can I use the installation guide for the oem foglights?

also, on scion life someone posted pictures of how they installed. Once they popped the inserts out they started cutting whatever was behind the insert so the lights can go in. he is the only person who has said that. was cuttin needed?

gravebox · 11-06-2009, 04:31 AM

i didn't need to cut anything my self... and i've had tthe blazer style fogs before i got the pilots...

IllNinja · 11-06-2009, 11:25 AM

well thats whats up. here goes.... im gonna do it bymyself today. wish me luccckkk

Lt4mula · 11-08-2009, 10:02 PM

Here is my contribution. My second set. First set got killed by a traffic cone.

IllNinja · 11-12-2009, 10:11 AM

well i failed my 1st attempt at installing. I managed to pop the honeycombs out and thats it. I then realized i have NO idea what i am doing. AHHH

Goosetavo · 11-12-2009, 01:47 PM

IllNinja, now you'll have to drill to screw the fog lights onto your bumper, then connect the ground cables to the chassis, and the other ones to the parking light's hot wire. That's what I did, and so far it's working great.

...that's if you want the fog lights to come on every time you turn on the parking lights, and or driving lights.

Lt4mula · 11-12-2009, 09:27 PM

I used the dimmer hot wire to a relay, and the relay to ground. Then wired directly from the + battery terminal, through a fuse, then through the firewall, to the in and out of the relay, to a rocker switch, back through the firewall, then to each fog, and grounded each fog. Did you catch all that?

The relay allows you to tap the parking light switch without pulling much more current through that circuit. Also, with this approach, the fogs have their own fuse. So if my fogs blow the a fuse, my parking light circuit remains untouched.

Try wiring everything up outside of the car first, then can see how the circuit works.

This is what I did in a nutshell

Except instead of the fusebox, i used the dimmer switch hotwire