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Old Jun 19, 2007 | 04:08 PM
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How To: Change Fog Light Bulbs

I searched and found no How To, to changing the fog light bulbs so i decided why not and make one, in this procedure i was changing my old Nokya Artic Whites for Luminics JDM Yellow.

1) Get all your supplys and tools, which are, 10mm socket, extension, rachet, flat head screw driver, and the light bulbs of course, oo cant forget the phone if some girls call!!!



2) Remove the 2 10mm bolts holding the headlight in and also the pushclip holding the top of the bumper to the grill. It might be hard to see in the pic but i circled the bolts and pushclip you need to remove.



3) Grab the side nearest to the fender and wiggle out the headlight, if needed pull up the grill or pull the top of the front bumper out to get the headlight out.



4) Put the headlight aside or on top of the motor, if you put it ontop of the motor DONT START IT!!!



5) The fog light is then visible down under, as seen in the picture, twist the bulb from the fog light and bring it up to take it off the wire.



6) Open the 2 clips on either side of the harness and light, heres the change from the artic whites to the jdm yellows.





7) Put the bulb back and put the headlight and pushclip and the bolts all back and voila you got yourself some new fog light bulbs!!! Heres some Before and After Pics, the left of the car being before and the right being after.







and a close up of the Fogs with the JDM Yellow


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Old Jun 19, 2007 | 06:18 PM
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ewww, looked so much better before
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Old Jun 19, 2007 | 06:36 PM
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nice how to! thanks
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Old Jun 19, 2007 | 07:05 PM
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thanks for the how to...

but yellow fog lights are rice..


(even though they break through fog the best)... ill stick with my 4300k+ foglights
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Old Jun 19, 2007 | 11:39 PM
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This is the best way to change them. It is much easier than what GM says to do in the manual. You have the same ones that I have and I love them.
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Old Jun 19, 2007 | 11:58 PM
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great how to!...does anyone know what options we have as far as bulbs for the fog lights are other than these?
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Old Jun 20, 2007 | 01:01 AM
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ahh the exterior isnt finished on the front, so youll see when its done, but i think yellow fogs are hot, so do others, but its all to ones opinion, and im deff not changing em out for the olds, but yeah this is the easist way to change the bulbs
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Old Jun 20, 2007 | 01:07 AM
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well, looks like i will be doing this, but changing to arctic white. i like that blue tint it has. good how to man! thanks.
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Old Jun 20, 2007 | 06:59 PM
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nice how to! I still have to change mine out, but I failed at changing regular bulbs cause I couldn't turn the black retainer thing/ didn't know what was supposed to turn when I tried.

maybe I'll have less problems with the fogs!
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Old Jun 22, 2007 | 03:36 AM
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Thanx for the how to, i will be doing this soon so will come in handy. I like how the old ones look but as long as u like how it looks now, thats all that matters
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Old Jun 22, 2007 | 03:41 AM
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Joe! Gimme your old bulbs!
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Old Jun 22, 2007 | 01:23 PM
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Originally Posted by HackAbuse
Joe! Gimme your old bulbs!
haha you want the old foggers? i put a year on em tho so idk how much is left out of em
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Old Jun 22, 2007 | 01:52 PM
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Originally Posted by Coblt ss super
haha you want the old foggers? i put a year on em tho so idk how much is left out of em
I'm sure they still gotta lot left in em
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Old Jun 25, 2007 | 10:37 AM
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Nice how to! I did the same thing when changing my fogs, plus I put the same yellow ones in. I had yellow overlays on the fogs of my Matrix before and they are GREAT in the **** weather we get here in the winter. So this time I went with the yellow bulbs instead. A lot easier in my opinion.
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Old Jun 25, 2007 | 11:01 PM
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Nice how to
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Old Jun 27, 2007 | 07:18 AM
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Whats the bulb model number for the fog lights?
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Old Jun 27, 2007 | 12:16 PM
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nice write up i jus ordered my jdm yellow fogs, cant wait to get them on...o and gotenks the bulb size is H11
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Old Jun 27, 2007 | 10:55 PM
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yup hes right they are H11
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Old Jun 28, 2007 | 12:28 AM
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so coblt ss super how do u like the yellow fogs...r they very yellow or whut?
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Old Jun 28, 2007 | 12:45 AM
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Id have gone just about any other colour b 4 i use yellow. Hate them ever since ive seen them on older Lexus vehicles. But in any case you have any pics with the yellow ones in at night?
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Old Jun 28, 2007 | 04:38 PM
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Originally Posted by SSON20S
so coblt ss super how do u like the yellow fogs...r they very yellow or whut?
yes they are very yellow, actually drove the car in the rain for the first time yesterday and they still lit the floor yellow, gotta love the color yellow piercing through them bad rain storms

Originally Posted by cage
Id have gone just about any other colour b 4 i use yellow. Hate them ever since ive seen them on older Lexus vehicles. But in any case you have any pics with the yellow ones in at night?
ill take pics tonight

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Old Jun 28, 2007 | 04:39 PM
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I was about to get these, and I think I'm just gunna save up a lil more and buy the HID's for the fogs instead.
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Old Jun 28, 2007 | 04:41 PM
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Originally Posted by RuSSo-29
I was about to get these, and I think I'm just gunna save up a lil more and buy the HID's for the fogs instead.
the fog bulbs as are, are bright as hell, i can jsut imagine hids in there
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Old Jun 28, 2007 | 07:27 PM
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cool man thanks i cant wait to get em in this weekend...
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Old Jun 29, 2007 | 01:38 PM
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The fog light bulbs are H11, I bought me some NOKYA 9007 (http://www.tntautosport.com/index.ph...roducts_id=126) as well as some of the H11's (if your interested, call me to place the order).

I didnt install the fogs, cuz I wasnt sure how to.

Read this, and immediately went out and did it.

Was a 10min job.

Great How To! and it was so simple to turn the knob to release the fogs (unlike the headlights which take a little effort)


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