First off, is the glass of the stock fog lights ('95-'96 specifically, but it doesn't matter much) really that much a part of the beam pattern of the fog lights? It just seems like vertical lines to me more so that the housing isn't so see-through or matches the glass headlights better. Or is the beam pattern (or lack thereof) more dependent on the reflector?

If the lines on the glass are indeed involved in the beam pattern, do any of you have suggestions as to how I might go about removing them safely or atleast reducing them? (Yes, I'm aware they are on the inside of the lense)

Don't ask why...that's a secret.

 

Planning on HID projectors for your fogs? I've had that idea before, but never really felt like spending so much on something like that, though Lexus has some nice projector fogs on their lineup.

I think the beam pattern is mostly a function of the reflector housing, not the lines in the glass. I would think that one could just grind out the protruding lines in the rear of the glass, and make it totally smooth without incident. Even if you do and it does slightly mess up the beam pattern, it's not really going to hurt much (especially if you're switching to alternative lighting there).

 

Alternative lighting indeed. I am not worried about messing up the beam pattern. Actually, I'm worried about messing up the NEW beam pattern

 

I'd imagine anything going in there that wasn't designed in by Nissan, it's beam pattern will be altered or destroyed by those ribs on the glass.

Are you using the stock reflector housing, or is that revealing too much?

 

The fluted lenses have a smooth relfector that depends on the flutes in the glass to disperse light. Newer headlights that have the clear lenses have light dispersion relies solely upon the reflector to disperse light. As far as defluting your foglight lenses, there isn't any real way to remove them without compromsing the quality of your light output. By sanding or mechanically removing the flutes, you will have a whole bunch of tiny gouges that will disperse you light output in random directions. You are better off just finding an auxilary fog light system to replace your factory fogs.

 

The fluted lenses have a smooth relfector that depends on the flutes in the glass to disperse light. Newer headlights that have the clear lenses have light dispersion relies solely upon the reflector to disperse light. As far as defluting your foglight lenses, there isn't any real way to remove them without compromsing the quality of your light output. By sanding or mechanically removing the flutes, you will have a whole bunch of tiny gouges that will disperse you light output in random directions. You are better off just finding an auxilary fog light system to replace your factory fogs.

 

Hmmm
No can do