Protege5 FOG light "umbrella" fix

[RensoreK]

When installing some HID on the fog lights I had a friend bend upwards the "umbrella" (w/o telling me !) and now I have a horrible pattern basically making my fogs useless. Is there anyway to remove the front glass portion of the fog lights to bring it back down. I tried with L shaped pliers but its so close to the glass its hard to bring back down. To fork out $100+ for new fog lights when these are basically in good condition stings. Can someone tell me how to have it cover the bulb again or remove the front glass part PLEASE?

 

[hotcracker69]

you need to remove the fog light as a whole to open the glass

 

[azuelke]

^ This. There are two tiny screws on the back of the housing that hold on the glass lens.

 

[Bommen]

On my fogs the glass is glued, does this apply to all round oem p5 fogs?

 

[Brains]

On the sedan (and i assume this applies to the p5 too) the fog light glass is glued to the reflector, and the glue seems to be made to handle higher heat than the glue used in the plastic driving lights. I couldn't get mine apart after heating it with a torch for some time, but maybe baking the fogs in an oven would work.

If azuelke is right and there's just a couple screws holding the glass on, then i have one more reason to hate the sedan fogs (in addition to the glass not separating, when you need to change the bulb the screws and the housing will completely fall apart...).

 

[MazdaSpeeder]

I have never been able to separate the glass and reflector. to be honest, the stock fogs aren't great anyway, maybe you should just upgrade. There's a whole aftermarket fogs thread here somewhere.

 

[kosteniuks17]

Yah the glass is definitely glued to the metal housing. It actually pissed me off cause I wanted to remove that reflector in front of the light. I was too afraid to get pliers in there or a saw to try and cut it, cause I knew there'd be shraps left inside. I finally decided to just stick a flat head in there and just push that reflector all the way up as far as I could. It definitely let the light spread out a lot...

 

[njaremka]

soak the housing in a bucket of gasoline. that will remove the adhesive

 

[Brains]

^interesting...
...i wanted to remove my sedan's fog's lenses so i could try to shove a set of lexus es300 projectors in there... didn't work, so now i've got a bunch of stock fogs sitting around and some really yellow lexus fogs... that i sort of want to mount similar to the ones on your old protege Nik. (i'm worried about how stupid that would/might look with the stock fog lights still in there...)

RensorK, if that IS your real name... you should look into upgrading your fog lights to something that can better use those HID's... like my lexus lights

 

[Balls]

I did something similar, except I used headlight projectors from an is300. For a while I had low and high beams in my fogs.