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Old 04-28-16 | 10:27 PM
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can you tell if that plastic surrounding the foglight has the same texture as the OEM JDM ones? if not do you think the jdm cutouts will fit the light fixture? hopefully the plastic surrounds look good enough. they look good in the pics. as i said before, even if the light itself isn't that good, buying some components from retrofitsource may make it as good or exceed the oem ones
I wouldn't know since I don't have the OEM JDM ones. But the plastic fills somewhat cheap. I'm thinking on painting it the same color as the car. I think they should fit fine though. And yes the light output ain't as good as I wanted to so I might look into doing some retrofit. I'll start looking into it at retrofit source.
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The car is not prewired for fog lights.
you'll have to run that included Foglight relay harness
I was just thinking maybe my car somehow did come prewired since there is so many loose conectors in that area where the fog lights go. Look at the pictures I put up before and see if any of those conectors would fit on the JDM fog lights. Thank you
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Those swirl marks on your hood
I know 😫. Wish I knew how to take them off. Never letting random people detail my car again.
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I guess in the end it all goes back to the old saying, you pay for what you get. the light output ain't that impressive. They are too dim for my preference. But they do match the color of the headlights by 95%. The pattern is scattered everywhere. Wish it was a bit cleaner but it ain't. Here are some pictures
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I know ��. Wish I knew how to take them off. Never letting random people detail my car again.
A good detailer should be able to perform "Paint Correction" should cost $700-$1200 to get rid of all the swirls permently, it should take the detailer the whole day.

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nice, yeah looks a bit too wide for my taste. i just threw on my ijdmtoys fogs i would say the light pattern isnt much better either.
Old 04-28-16 | 11:52 PM
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could someone do a video of how to install the fogs?

i couldnt find one
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Now I am happy with ijdm fog but after seeing the new fog light pattern. Although I am pretty much dont like their yellowish LED




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Originally Posted by Edwin8484
I was just thinking maybe my car somehow did come prewired since there is so many loose conectors in that area where the fog lights go. Look at the pictures I put up before and see if any of those conectors would fit on the JDM fog lights. Thank you
It's not there. If there were I would have done it that way. In my car when i installed OEM JDM fogs I just ran separate switch/relay harness



Looks like these Spyder ones do not have shields to produce cutoff lines. The OEM has shield on top and bottom I believe when I took them apart to investigate
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light output is not impressive. try to adjust the angle as well to get better light output on the ground.
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Old 04-29-16 | 10:51 AM
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I've seen the ijdmtoy one on my friends car and its pretty good ngl and bright af
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[QUOTE=specONE;9466704]It's not there. If there were I would have done it that way. In my car when i installed OEM JDM fogs I just ran separate switch/relay harness


Wiring harness for direct plug in are there. I'll open another thread to show where I found it and how I did it.

Now I just have to figure out if I want to do a retrofit to HID projectors or save money to get JDM fog lights.
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Originally Posted by specONE
It's not there. If there were I would have done it that way. In my car when i installed OEM JDM fogs I just ran separate switch/relay harness


Wiring harness for direct plug in are there. I'll open another thread to show where I found it and how I did it.

Now I just have to figure out if I want to do a retrofit to HID projectors or save money to get JDM fog lights.
I thought about retrofit the fog light before I chose ijdm fog lights. I even bought 2.5" lens from theretrofitsource, jdm fogllight cover from nigel-jdm and 6k lmz led series from vleds. However, there were a lot of works and I did not have enough space for the led heat sinks and that's when I give up.
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Did you not wire in the fog light switch/button?



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