vx430

Hello everyone,

I will be taking delivery of my SC in a couple of days and would like to know if you guys could tell me what color is the SC's stock bulb. Does it project a yellow beam, standard headlight color beam or something close to Xenon?

Also, does anyone know which model of a bulb does Toyota uses on the SC's fog light!

Thanks!

Kel

dseag2

Don't know the bulb model, but it is a standard headlight beam. Pretty dim when compared to the headlights.

tfischer

In two years of ownership, I have felt the need for the fog lights once, when driving through mountains early in the morning. I tried all the different combinations of lights available, and none made any difference. As delivered, the fog lights are, as far as I can tell, (and I am loath to generalize from insufficient data) useless other than as a cosmetic accessory.

If you find some replacememet bulbs that are effective, let us know, although I doubt that I would spend much to upgrade my foglights for a small marginal improvement in a situation I seldom encounter.

My guess, however, is that when on at night, they make the front of the car look cooler.

At no extra charge.

1NICESC430

My $.02 ....
Fog lights should be bright enough and switched so that they can be on with the headlights off. Fog lights are worthless when the headlights are reflecting off the fog glare. They should also be designed to spread the light over a large area to minimize that reflection. I used to have such a fog light (I needed only one) and it worked beautifully. It's not made any longer and would look kinda stupid on a newer car because it looks like a big old round headlight..

Larry

"true" fog lights are yellow, not white. Yellow doesn't refract nor cause a prismatic effect when driving in dense water vapor (fog).

The lights you are all referring to (except Ed) are "driving" lights, designed to enhance visibility closer to the front of the vehicle and approximately 45 degrees on either side for a range of about 20 feet.

In Europe, most high end automobiles have only one front "fog" light/yellow. They also have a rear "red" light that is brighter than he brake lights. When you're doing over 100 on the Autobahn, you want other drivers to be well aware of you from a good distance away.

And that's all there is to say about that..............

1NICESC430

Larry ...

There was only one fog lamp I knew that was not yellow and that was the Lucas fog lamp that I owned. The lens was designed to spread the light all over the place. Here's what it looked like - unfortunately, the picture doesn't show the lens design.

Larry

You remember "LUCAS" lights !!

Did you know that his systems were so prone to failure that he was dubbed "The Prince of Darkness" ?

True by the way. In the late 60's, his lighting systems were used on lots of custom hot rods and they never failed to fail.

1NICESC430

LOL "never failed to fail"

Well, I had two Lucas lamps. The fog lamp shown in the pic and, on the other side of the grill, a Lucas FlameThrower driving lamp that let me see into the next county. I loved them both and neither ever failed me. Wish I still had them to put on my Outback.

I guess I was lucky for once.

0260n5.7

btw, the bulb type is H-3 if youare looking for replacement bulbs. Another option would be to get an aftermarket H-3 HID kit for the "driving lights". I've seen it done b4.

MAC

JerseySC

I replaced my foglights with PIAA X-treme white 4150K bulbs. Our headlights are 4300K and they match pretty close-the closest I've seen yet to real HID with a ballast & igniter. I didn't see the point of spending all that money for fogs. The bulbs cost me $60 for a pair on eBay, and they are H-3, 55W>85W.