Seeing as our fogs are glass i know we cant wetsand them. but my fogs look only and i wanna restore the look to them since im putting hid's in the fogs later tonight. what should i do to restore the look of them?

 

Actually if you wanted to, you could sand them. It's not something I'd reccomend without a lot of time and patience, though. You'd need many, many grits of sandpaper including several of extremely high grit, along with glass polish and a buffer. Not really worth the results.

Short of doing that, though, there's not much you can really do. I thought about it when I was retroing projectors into my fogs the other day and came to the conclusion it just isn't worth the effort for something you won't notice unless you're up really close.

 

Buy new ones.

 

Polish with fine cut car polish. It's not nearly as aggressive as wetsanding, but it will remove gunk on the glass.

Dave

 

i hear retrofittin projectors into the fog housing is useless because of the glass, how have your results yeilded?

 

As of right now, they are about as useful as the stock fogs. That's not saying a lot. They sure are nice LOOKING, though. I just made a custom beefed-up harness that's going in tommorrow to up the brightness a little.

All-in-all, it's going to take me removing the lenses again and completely ridding the lenses of the lines/flutes, which is a lot of work. Something I don't feel like jumping into right now, considering the retrofit itself was a pain in the ****.

It definitely lends itself to HID use much better, though. You can throw in D2S bulbs nearly unmodified, still have a half-decent cutoff (even with the fog lense with lines on it), and throw out tons of useable light. HIDs won't be going into these things anytime soon, though. Too much $$$ for not a lot of practicality.

Here is a comparison of how the projectors look now compared to the old fogs...

Projector w/ no fog lense on vs. stock fog:


Current projectors w/ fog lense on (unaimed):


...and in my sig you get a good idea of how they look.

 

the yellow is too dull for me. but besides that looks nice.

 

Dull? If you mean in terms of brightness, in the picture with the OEM fog pattern, the brightness is sort of exaggerated by the camera. The yellow is just as bright.

 

I just bought fogs lights and they shattered again 1 week later. I did notice they are kind of hot. Maybe that is my problem? Who knows. I hate Canadian roads. I was down in Texas on my way to Costa Rica, and your guys POS 88 Ford Tempos are in better shape (paint wise) then my car. **** me off.