im putting my piaa super plasma fog lights in today...along with my berk intake...anyway...i dont have ramps to put the car on like housecor's directions say to use so i just attempted to jack up the car and put it on jackstands but i cant seem to find a good place to sit the jackstands...anything i should look for or can anyone tell me where they should go...im about to go work on it some more now so any help would be appreciated...

thanks

doug

 

You dont have to jack it up if u dont want to, but it just makes it slightly harder for access. I recall putting in foglights(since i have a GXE), and i didnt even jack it up.

 

nah, u dont need to jack it up for fog installs. i just layed on the ground next to it to see the screws. it makes it easier, but by no means is it necesary.

 

ok....now my next problem i ran into...i cant push the fog light out of the housing...do i have to remove the whole housing??? how much force do i have to push on the fog light with

doug

 

Putting on jack stands makes it much easier, with more room to move around in. I placed my jack stands a bit behind the front wheels. If you take a closer look, there are little knotches. You'll know what im talking about once you look at it. Good luck with the install, remember not to touch the lenses on the bulbs. I got the Super Plasma GTX and like them pretty well.

 

once you get the lil shield thing off the bottom, and you take out the 2 nuts from the back of the fog light, it should almost just fall out. just a little pressure and thats it. those nuts are the only thing holding it on.

 

You can check out this page. It should come out with a small push. http://www.cardomain.com/member_page...224200&page=13. The only difficulty I had was to disconnect the fog assembly from the main harness. I used a small head screw driver to to push in the tabs. Ed.

 

u dont need to jack it up for fog installs.

 

Got this diagram from another .Org member...



And yeah... ya don't really need to jack the car up to do your fogs...

 

just like everyone else, i didnt jack my car up when replacing my fogs, and the first time i did it, it was a 20-30 min. job...very easy

 

THis was helpful... the link to the instructions in the how-to's doesn't work and now I feel beter about doing this... I hadn't ventured to do it since I first look here before I do anything on my car...

 

I also had a bit of trouble separating this, but that was the ONLY difficult thing in this install...for the people that are a bit hesitant in doing this, i am a total newb when it comes to cars (this IS my first) and i did it with no problem....i hope this gave everyone a bit of confidence

 

I didnt go at it from below at all. I actually was swapping headlight bulbs at the same time so with headlights out you can see the back of the fog light housing and there is no shield in the way. It took me maybe 10 minutes to change my fog bulbs.

 

Liquid: How in the world...? maybe you have really long, skinny arms. I thought the only feasible way would be from below.

 

I actually have rather large arms but the fogs are only like a foot lower than the headlights. I took the headlights out reached down and unscrewed and pushed out took no time at all.

 

I have actually seen several people on the .Org recommending ya do this way too.... seems to be pretty easy, although I've yet to try it myself...

 

If you got a Stillen lip you do since it's easier to replace the bulb from under the car than trying to remove the foglight

 

Good point... didn't think of that... I guess that applies for any lip huh?

 

I know w/ my Aero lip, I had to pull the lip far enough to remove my fogs (HID purpose). It's just easier to replace bulbs from under the car.