Question about parking / fogs

[coyfish]

Looking for something cheap to do and I was thinking about swapping my parking lights and fogs for some ebay LED's. I typed in mazdaspeed 6 lights into ebay and I found some cheap lights. Anyone know if they are good / bad??

Also how long does it take to install parking lights / fog lights. For some reason it seems like it would take 20 minutes to do both but everything always takes me 10X as long as I initially anticipated.

Thx in advance. Also if ebays are bad please feel free to recommend certain lights. I just want a blueish color to match the stock headlights.

 

[slyter485]

You can find any 194 LED replacement on just about any site, whether it be ebay or a dedicated website that sells them.

I don't have any experience replacing the fog bulbs with LED's though. I just replaced them with 5000k bulbs to match the HID color.

The parking lights are a piece of cake, just pop the headlight cover off from inside the engine bay and pull the bulb socked straight out. For foglight bulb replacement, take off part of the mud guard to expose the foglight shroud. You will probably wanna take the horn off the bracket to get access to the passenger side foglight (unless you have very small hands)

 

[Sledgehammer]

Looking for something cheap to do and I was thinking about swapping my parking lights and fogs for some ebay LED's. I typed in mazdaspeed 6 lights into ebay and I found some cheap lights. Anyone know if they are good / bad??

Also how long does it take to install parking lights / fog lights. For some reason it seems like it would take 20 minutes to do both but everything always takes me 10X as long as I initially anticipated.

Thx in advance. Also if ebays are bad please feel free to recommend certain lights. I just want a blueish color to match the stock headlights.

I have a pair of these. What I did was remove the entire housing of each fog light and took out the metal insert that cover's the light itself to let more light out since led's are not as bright. They look good especially with the same color driving lights. I also did the driving/fog light on mod and looks really good at dusk. Take a quick look just dont mind the bird crap

origional with housing

Housing removed

With housing light on

w/o housing light on

 

[tunersteve]

I'm a big fan of the Hoen Xenonmatch bulbs. Much better than the brownish stock ones. Eventually planning on going to the 6000k HID fogs and low beams.

 

[Mistersix]

oj bartley has a really great thread on here about this. per his suggestion i went with autoillumination. they had everything i needed, and i couldnt be happier. my fogs however arent leds, their these "HID looking" bulbs. the match the low beams and new drl led's i also installed

 

[Mistersix]

sledgehammer, thats a great idea. the one thing i didnt care for was the fact that the new bulbs werent as bright as the ol brown ones.

so you can pull the fog housing right off the front. or you prolly gotta go under and undo some bolts from the back side before you can pull em out right?

 

[amilliems6]

you can pick up the 194 bulbs at v-leds. I did my full led swap from them and so far so good

 

[Sledgehammer]

It sort of a pain but if you do you own oil changes, then you know the drill.
Take off the scrape guard (whatever it is protecting the underside of the engine). Then take off the black plastic panels on either side (phillips).
You can either take out the entire black housing by pressing the little snaps in, or just the light housing with a screwdriver IIRC. Its a pain in the butt for sure, even more so on the passenger side.
To take out the bulb housing you need a strong needle nose pliers, time, and dedication (at least my jimmied way.) The bulb housing is a soft metal so bending it with the needle nose is a cinch.
Bend it back and forth untill it breaks right at the screw. Then you will need to squeeze the metal many times to get the fit right to pull it back through the hole you were working from. Took me about 20 minutes of tinkering. The results are worth it IMO. Good luck

 

[Mistersix]

ah i see! thanks very much sledgehammer. sounds like a project for next weekend