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Old Nov 2, 2005 | 11:22 AM
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Stop 02/03 Foglights From Cracking

All right guys, I was sick and tired of my 02's glass fog lights cracking and breaking from rocks and road debris so heres how I fixed it. I took a piece of Plexiglas and cut it to size, drilled 2 holes, one in the top and one in the bottom, feed the wire into the back of the fog light and twisted the wires off in the back by the fog light bolts. The past 6 months I have not had to replace one fog light again ( I have replaced 3 at $89 a piece! ) if any of you north east guys want to do this before winter I would highly recommend it! If you don't have the time to buy these parts, cut and custom fit them into your fog lights, PM me, I have a couple extras I cut and I will send them to you for $30 (shipping included) with the instructions how to install them! THEY DONT BLOCK OR DILUTE THE FOGLIGHT BEAM AT ALL, THEY ARE CRYSTAL CLEAR! i forget i have them on sometimes.

Old Nov 2, 2005 | 11:31 AM
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$30 for $2 worth of plexiglass? DAMN.

Plexiglass is a good idea, but the are going to get scratched to s'hit since they are a soft plastic...but I guess it's better than $90 for a new lamp...
Old Nov 2, 2005 | 11:40 AM
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$30 for $2 worth of plexiglass? DAMN.

Plexiglass is a good idea, but the are going to get scratched to s'hit since they are a soft plastic...but I guess it's better than $90 for a new lamp...
It cost me around $15 for this piece (at home depot) bc its lexann (200X stronger than glass) and my time to cut these things and install each one to makesure they fit right and the shipping. im not saying you have to buy these from me, just sayin the idea is great and that it would be good to do it yourself, but for thoes people who just dnt have the time or knowledge, ill send them the 2 pieces and instrusctions of how to remove everything with pictures if there not sure of how to do it. I dnt think $30 is much for this.
Old Nov 2, 2005 | 11:48 AM
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Mine haven't cracked in the 3 years I've owned the car. Good that you found a nice sollution for those who's fogs crack.
Old Nov 2, 2005 | 11:54 AM
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mine are both cracked, and one has a hole in it....i'm just going to wait for the funds to buy new foglights, put some 3M clear shields on them, and get HIDs so that it won't heat the housing up as much, therefore they will less likely chance of cracking during the winter
Old Nov 2, 2005 | 12:07 PM
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Lamin-X.com is cheaper and easy as pie to install. They even have a pre-cut kit for our foglights that costs around $17+shipping. Also, they have different colors and thicknesses for pretty much any application. Good idea on the plexiglass though.
Old Nov 2, 2005 | 12:10 PM
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My passenger side is cracked and I aint fixing it until the other one cracks.
Old Nov 2, 2005 | 12:17 PM
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...I have a very small hole in lense but, I rarely use my fogs. But some of the ideas here are good to keep in mind.
Old Nov 2, 2005 | 12:17 PM
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Originally Posted by boondoxmax
My passenger side is cracked and I aint fixing it until the other one cracks.
y wait till the other one cracks, there exspensice to replace
Old Nov 2, 2005 | 12:19 PM
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Originally Posted by MaximaPolak
Mine haven't cracked in the 3 years I've owned the car. Good that you found a nice sollution for those who's fogs crack.
man, knock on wood, your lucky that they havent cracked, almost every 5.5 gen i have sceene has atleast one fog cracked, maybe you should get these things from me so you dnt have to worry about theme ever cracking lol (hint hint)
Old Nov 2, 2005 | 12:22 PM
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Bought mine new in Dec '01 and just got my first cracked fog. Trying to find a used replacement now.

Thanks to Mizike for the lamin-x.com tip.
Old Nov 2, 2005 | 12:49 PM
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