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Old 04-28-2016, 07:38 AM   #1
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Another way to go is to convert your fog lights to running lights,. Its an easy hack requiring a jumper in the fuse panel

You can easily change out the H7 fog light bulb to a LED

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Old 04-28-2016, 11:34 AM   #2
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When changing out the H7 fog light bulb to a LED's, what is a decent bulb to go with? I plan to do this mod this w/e instead of the external option.
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Old 04-29-2016, 04:39 AM   #3
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Another way to go is to convert your fog lights to running lights,. Its an easy hack requiring a jumper in the fuse panel

You can easily change out the H7 fog light bulb to a LED

DRL-Fog Light Hack
My car was a US car no drl. It has the conversion to use the fogs as a drl. Mandatory here.
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Old 04-29-2016, 09:34 AM   #4
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Another way to go is to convert your fog lights to running lights,. Its an easy hack requiring a jumper in the fuse panel

You can easily change out the H7 fog light bulb to a LED

DRL-Fog Light Hack
cool info, thanks
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Old 09-05-2021, 07:40 AM   #5
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Looks great! How did you run the wires from the LEDs into the trunk? How did you attach the lights to the vent? I am hoping it did not require removing the bumper as I am sure 17 years has corroded many of the fasteners and that will create many opportunities to do some swearing! Any thoughts would be appreciated.
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Looks great! How did you run the wires from the LEDs into the trunk? How did you attach the lights to the vent? I am hoping it did not require removing the bumper as I am sure 17 years has corroded many of the fasteners and that will create many opportunities to do some swearing! Any thoughts would be appreciated.
OK. The first two times I saw your posts (in other threads) I drove on by.

First, You will have to remove your front bumper COVER (Keyword = Cover). Maybe... 8 screws. 10? I forget. It's gravy... and will take you 5... 10minutes to remove.

Drilling a hole through the frunk? (Front trunk = Frunk). No. Already they exist and are behind the battery driver side. Do some looking.

The process to install aftermarket DRLs? There are posts here from caveman times. Do some searching. The answers are there. Use the seacrh feature. Have a nice day.

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