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Old May 5, 2005 | 10:04 AM
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My eyes! I can see!

I installed new driving lights last night. I don't know why I waited so long. These things make my high beams look like candles.

I got Hella FF50s

Old May 5, 2005 | 10:08 AM
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cool... looks good
Old May 5, 2005 | 10:17 AM
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Yeah they really do improve visability. No just get some better bulbs. I've got the PIAA 1500's
Old May 5, 2005 | 10:50 AM
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Could you post an in car pic for reference of on/off?
Old May 5, 2005 | 10:51 AM
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on the on road pic
Old May 5, 2005 | 10:54 AM
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I'll get some more pics tonight.
Old May 5, 2005 | 12:02 PM
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That'll help cut wide swathes of brightness in the inky black night. Looks good.
Old May 5, 2005 | 01:01 PM
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stock fogs still look 100x better when not lit...I think most will agree with me on that one.

I believe you had no fogs to begin with...so I must say it actually looks good.
Old May 5, 2005 | 01:07 PM
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This was 100% NOT a cosmetic mod...
Old May 5, 2005 | 01:10 PM
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I realize that. Nowhere did I say it was.

You can "see" better now, so that's all that counts.
Old May 5, 2005 | 01:13 PM
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You should see how they look mounted there



BTW, $28 dolla WalMart fogs>>>>all others
Old May 5, 2005 | 01:21 PM
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looks good. how much did they cost you?
Old May 5, 2005 | 01:22 PM
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Originally Posted by mzmtg
I installed new driving lights last night. I don't know why I waited so long. These things make my high beams look like candles.

I got Hella FF50s

You put yours on and I took mine off.

I have to put them back on soon though so my car will look good again.
Old May 5, 2005 | 01:32 PM
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coooooooooool
Old May 5, 2005 | 02:14 PM
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Originally Posted by Kevlo911
BTW, $28 dolla WalMart fogs>>>>all others
$40 for brand name driving lights >>>> $30 Wally world "fogs"
Old May 5, 2005 | 02:19 PM
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i got mine in blue.... dont even use them, theyr illigal
Old May 5, 2005 | 02:22 PM
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i got mine in blue.... dont even use them, theyr illigal
So, overall, that was a wise purchase.
Old May 5, 2005 | 02:27 PM
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Originally Posted by mzmtg
So, overall, that was a wise purchase.
He did turn them on for that pic, so I guess he got his money's worth.
Old May 5, 2005 | 02:57 PM
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i didint pay for them!! i got them for FREE from a friend
Old May 5, 2005 | 04:03 PM
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good looking fogs
Old May 5, 2005 | 04:15 PM
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they're driving lights!
Old May 5, 2005 | 07:20 PM
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Highbeams only:


Highbeams and FF50s:


I saw this guy when I was out taking those pics:
Old May 5, 2005 | 07:24 PM
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lol that toad pic is awesome

beam pattern pics look good
Old May 5, 2005 | 07:35 PM
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i need some visiblity as well, i use to have my fogs behind the grille, so they cant be seen, lol i blinded the shiet out of all the oncomming traffic and ppl infront of me. so i took it off
Old May 5, 2005 | 08:13 PM
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fogs and frogs.
how hard is it to wire those fogs up? my stock 95 didnt come with any.
Old May 5, 2005 | 09:57 PM
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well, those driving lights are aimed pretty high. I'm sure that you are a menace to oncoming drivers. I used to have piaa diachronic driving lights. THEY WERE AWESOME. But they also blinded oncoming drivers. Looks good mzmtg. Those will rock in backroads driving.
Old May 5, 2005 | 10:25 PM
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Those are pretty damn bright lights! Nice. I like the frog pic also haha..
Old May 5, 2005 | 10:58 PM
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It's true, OEM fogs look better but is easily outperformed by aftermarket ones. Kevlo, those fogs look good in your Max. I have a 95 SE and I've been wanting to replace the factory fogs with better ones for visibility. However, I want to find something that will look best in the stock fog location. I know it wouldn't be the same as the OEM look but something very close will suffice. I wonder if I can gut the housing of the oem fog and retrofit an aftermarket HID type fogs behind the OEM fog lenses.

mzmtg, those fogs look good on the GXE.
Old May 5, 2005 | 11:26 PM
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Is that frog taking a dump?
Old May 6, 2005 | 01:01 AM
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mzmtg are your headlights 9004 or 9007? I know converting to 9007 helped out my visibility a lot.
Old May 6, 2005 | 04:41 AM
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My headlights are still 9004. The driving lights have a different beam pattern than fog lights. They are designed to throw light farther out, in a spot. Fog lights have a wide low pattern.

Mine are aimed straight out. They are wired to only come on with the highbeams, so theoretically, they wont be on when there is any oncoming traffic.
Old May 6, 2005 | 04:54 AM
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how well does it work in the fog?
Old May 6, 2005 | 04:57 AM
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how well does it work in the fog?
They suck in the fog. The reflection back at you is about 10 times worse then just the highbeams.
Old May 6, 2005 | 04:59 AM
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Driving Light beam pattern:



Fog Light Driving pattern:
Old May 6, 2005 | 12:34 PM
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bigtimber, the scenery in that sig is awesome.
Old May 6, 2005 | 12:50 PM
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clearly people do not know there lights. Those lights look really nice Ben.
Old May 6, 2005 | 09:33 PM
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looks nice bro aim em a lil lower i got hella driving lights awesome too


Old May 7, 2005 | 02:46 AM
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Came out good.
Old May 7, 2005 | 10:06 AM
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So, overall, that was a wise purchase.
haha

nice i cant believe how much more light they provide
Old May 7, 2005 | 10:23 AM
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mzmtg is right about the beam pattern. My foglights have a very wide beam pattern.



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