[s-cars] Fog light HID upgrade?

[Tom Green]

>
Hi Bob,

Your question is "are they practical?" from what I read.  There
are H3 HID kits you can stuff in the projector, but the one set I
have seen overpowered the projector and created too much
scatter that escaped the cutoff.  They also did not show up much
except within 30' of the bumper.

The dazzle from the low beams created so much backscatter
in the fog to render the question moot.  Unless you can use the
fogs independently of the headlights, I don't see any way to
determine how well they could work.

All of the low mounted lights around here are driving lights that
the installer seems to think a rising beam angle is required in
order to light up the elk's eyeballs, and they don't seem to have an
on/off switch.

I think some independent low mounted fogs could help a little in
that zero-visibility fog that should have you sitting in the coffee shop
instead.  Doubling-up the rear fogs would maybe help more.

Tom

> Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2009 08:43:58 -0500
> From: Robert Myers <bob at chips-ur-s.com>
> Subject: Re: [s-cars] Fog light HID upgrade?
> To: "JC" <jc at j2c3.com>
> Cc: "'S-Car-List at Audifans.Com'" <s-car-list at audifans.com>
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> JC,
>
> I agree that E-code lights are great and that adding the HID
> conversion for the low beams is just super.  My question was
> concerning doing a similar HID conversion on the fog lights.  Has
> anyone done this on the fogs and, if so, were they willing to provide
> a review?  Does the fog light conversion make as much difference as
> the low beam conversion does?
>
> Bob