G50 Projector Fog Light Retrofit

[TBrack]

This idea for projector fog lights came from too much alcohol and impulse ebaying. I figured since I have projector headlights, the fogs looked out of place. So came the idea, which I pursued and accomplished.

I started off by removing the fog lights to see what I'm working with.

Then I removed the glass cover and see that the cheap foil inside the lights is pealing

Then I got a hammer and beat out the housing from the socket. Just my luck I got a perfect sized hole

Heres the all metal and glass projector fog light. ($50 on ebay)

Projector mounted into the assembly...

Glass cleaned and polished and placed back on the assembly.

Rinse and repeat...

Hope you enjoy!

[goody90q45]

Great mod. It seems too easy, like they were made for each other. Are the projector fogs you put in a stand alone universal unit or from another car? How do they work at night? Illuminate straight ahead or to the side?

[maxnix]

Projector (HID?) with a fog lamp lens over it? Would be interesting to see the resultant pattern.

I modified by forlight brackets and replaced my foglights with Sylvania X1010 HID low beam auxiliary, which are no longer currently available. Nice, but most would probably not bother for the expense. I'll post some time if Wes can host the pictures.

Nice job. Show us the pattern.

[TBrack]

Great mod. It seems too easy, like they were made for each other. Are the projector fogs you put in a stand alone universal unit or from another car? How do they work at night? Illuminate straight ahead or to the side?

Yes they are supposed to be stand alone units for universal applications. I had to measure the diameter of the hole in the factory fogs and search for fogs to fit, universal ones just happened to be perfect. The beam mixes in with my headlights and gives everything a good color and illumination, no noticeable scattering of light.

Projector (HID?) with a fog lamp lens over it? Would be interesting to see the resultant pattern.

I modified by forlight brackets and replaced my foglights with Sylvania X1010 HID low beam auxiliary, which are no longer currently available. Nice, but most would probably not bother for the expense. I'll post some time if Wes can host the pictures.

Nice job. Show us the pattern.

atm I do not have HID in the fogs but the point in buying all metal and glass was so I could in the future. As you can see in the pix, the factory lens doesn't have too many diffusers and seems to have very little effect since the projector lens is pretty much right up to it and the light has little room to scatter. I'll cover the headlights and take pics tonight.

[qship96]

Projector (HID?) with a fog lamp lens over it? Would be interesting to see the resultant pattern.

I modified by forlight brackets and replaced my foglights with Sylvania X1010 HID low beam auxiliary, which are no longer currently available. Nice, but most would probably not bother for the expense. I'll post some time if Wes can host the pictures.

Nice job. Show us the pattern.

Please do post pictures Brian. I am interested in the addition of aux low beam headlamps to replace the fogs, which to me would be more usable.The factory fogs are more cosmetic than functional.

[maxnix]

OK, I'll see if Wes can host the pictures.

[VIP Q45t]

Great job with the retrofit! I may look into doing this for my Q.

I'm not sure if this will work with the Q45 fogs. But have you considered using lexan xl10 for the lens? I have that on my rsx fogs. The lens is clear, so you would be able to get better light output from your projectors and you will be able to see the projectors better. Its also very durable, you won't have to worry about rock chips or the lens cracking.

heres mine...you can't really see it though.

[Q451990]

Is the fog light lens glass or plastic? If it's plastic it should be possible to sand the optics off and then polish the plastic with higher and higher grit sand paper, finishing with a plastic polish...

Heath

[TBrack]

Is the fog light lens glass or plastic? If it's plastic it should be possible to sand the optics off and then polish the plastic with higher and higher grit sand paper, finishing with a plastic polish...

Heath

High quality thick glass, no way to get the small ridges out...

[bullittandy]

"too much alcohol and impulse ebaying".

Good lord this is dangerous. I once ended up with a set of $900 seats from an 03 Cobra! Man was the wife pissed!!!

[IceCubeFoSho]

Holy crap I want headlights like that on my Y33

[TBrack]

I doubt you can fit bmw lights in a Y33

[maxnix]

I doubt you can fit bmw lights in a Y33

And he already has HID low beams.
Modified by maxnix at 9:08 AM 9/15/2008

[Kiven422]

wow I have some BMW fog lights that look just like yours... I'm going to try that out!! thanks

[TBrack]

Took the glass lens off, doesn't look bad...

[WhiteIvory]

Are those E39 headlights?

Sweet project.

[NSR_s30]

Yeah what kind of headlights are those?

[TBrack]

BMW E39

[1QIKQ45]

Those look awesome man! What about Halo Rings? Anybody ever retrofired those into the G50?

[maxnix]

Still would love to see the projected pattern.

[TBrack]

I had some pix but they were accidentally deleted. It was an alright pattern I thought, it would definitely benefit from HIDs. I still have them laying around if anyone wants to buy em seeing as my Q is now a tiny block of metal thanks to our government and "cash for clunkers".

[Q451990]

seeing as my Q is now a tiny block of metal thanks to our government and "cash for clunkers".

Can't remember if I already did some ball busting on this - but if not

alright... i feel better now.

[Infinitiguy19]

Rare moment folks...Heath was mad for the first time on NICO!!!

[1QIKQ45]

Did you say you had the headlights laying around? Cuz those are sexy!i would love to get ahold or a set, unliss you had a write up of how you did them... i do have a spare set of headlights....hmm, maby time to have a bit of alcohol and jump on ebay!haha

[TBrack]

Did you say you had the headlights laying around? Cuz those are sexy!i would love to get ahold or a set, unliss you had a write up of how you did them... i do have a spare set of headlights....hmm, maby time to have a bit of alcohol and jump on ebay!haha

No I took the fog lights out not the headlights. I had the headlights and fenders for sale for a couple days but since no one acted, they had to go with the car. Here is a link to the thread about the headlights.

zerothread?id=290228

[torontocustomlights]

This idea for projector fog lights came from too much alcohol and impulse ebaying. I figured since I have projector headlights, the fogs looked out of place. So came the idea, which I pursued and accomplished.

I started off by removing the fog lights to see what I'm working with.

Then I removed the glass cover and see that the cheap foil inside the lights is pealing <IMG NAME="icon" SRC="http://images.nicoclub.com/forums/image ... es/wtf.gif" BORDER="0">

Then I got a hammer and beat out the housing from the socket. Just my luck I got a perfect sized hole <IMG NAME="icon" SRC="http://images.nicoclub.com/forums/image ... huckle.gif" BORDER="0">

Heres the all metal and glass projector fog light. ($50 on ebay)

Projector mounted into the assembly...

Glass cleaned and polished and placed back on the assembly.

Rinse and repeat...

Hope you enjoy!

now tell me again that drinkin is bad

[cooleric2000]

this is so nice, but how do you connect the wirings, this is kind of my most concern before I purchase the projector fog light lamps.

I am thinking about the CCFL Angel Eye Projector Fog Light Lamps from iJDMTOY, how do you guys think.

The link is http://store.ijdmtoy.com/Projector-Fog- ... _sku73.htm