2010 Prius OEM-quality Fog Light Kit Now Available!

Great thanks for your prompt response,

So what I am getting from this advice is
First - for HID lights ( meaning the white lights / or bluish white lights) - I just have to replace the light bulbs with the HID specific ones ? - If yes will there be any voltage mismatch , or focus related issues ?

Second - The fog lights - the kit you have suggested on priuschat.com does that come with HID bulbs as well or just hallogen bulbs ? Can I opt for HID bulbs in the fog lights ? will there by any technical issue ?

I think based on your suggestion, I will order this kit on priuschat.com and get them installed from a local automobile audio/video installer/ dealer.

Thanks again for your suggestions

Venkata

 

Please note that the high beams and low beams are both separate bulbs.

Yes, you can replace the hi/low beam stock bulbs with the corresponding HID bulbs from a HID kit. Meaning for you H11 socket low beams you must buy a H11 HID kit.

No there will be no voltage issues because the 2010 do not come with a headlight failure check option. So the typical 35W HID kit replacing the 60W halogen bulb will not be a problem. Please note that although the HID is 35W, it is still 3x brighter than stock.

The fog lights from priuschat shop come with halogen bulbs. You must buy a H11 HID kit in order to have HID fog lights.

No there are no technical issues with buying a good quality HID kit for the Fog Lights. I have HID kits installed in my low beams and my fog lights.

Remember get a quality kit, not just some shady ebay dealer knockoff.

Also note that with each HID bulb you must mount and install a ballast.

 

Which kit did you get?

 

For my Low beams and Fog lights, I ordered the Volt Kit from Xenon Depot. The Kit is very high grade meaning, the kit is very waterproof as you can see you in pictures provided by Xenon Depot the wires comming out of the ballasts are completly sealed. The Kit comes with Double Sided 3M tape pair of gloves, and a relay kit and some zip ties.


They do offer the the Xtreme kits, but personally I think they're a waste of money. The Volt kits do more than a good job.

I ordered a cheap Hid Kit from DDM tuning for my High Beams, I ordered the cheap kit because I don't think my high beams are important. I barely use Highbeams. I just got them for the WOW factor and not something to depend upon. If anything I don't need a HID kit for my Highbeams because having HID's in fogs and lows light up plently already. Let me tell you having HID HIGHS lows and fogs is like having a second mini sun comming out of the prius

 

So they already have a kit available for the Volt eh? Could you be so kind as to provide the exact link to the product you used for the low beams? Thanks!

 

LOL no, the Volt Kit from Xenon Depot has nothing to do with the GM Volt haha.

The link should clearly simplify things for you
Volt Digital HID Kits

I ordered the 6000K for my lows and 3000k for my fog lights. I recommend you stick with 4300K cause it's the brightest in terms of lumens. The 6000k temp is about 12percent less bright than the 4300.

 

OK, after reading all the posts/replies and comments,
I have just ordered this OEM Kit from priuschat.com. hope to receive the kit by mid next week.

thanks to everyone for their comments/contributions. to this.

I have one last question on this.
Do we have to remove the front bumper to install the fog light kit?


and please need your opinion / comments on the following:

I have a local dealer who has quoted me $285.00 for HID Kit complete with installation and includes OEM fog lights installation (which I just ordered thru priuschat.com)

The HID package includes low and high beam headlights + fog lights install and convert to HID as well )
HID Xenon bulbs with 8000K color lamps

Please suggest as to -
will there be any compatibility issues with 8000k ?

will there any performance degradation with this all HID lights on 2010 Prius?

many thanks in advance

 

Considering If your dealer gets some of the cheapest HID kits available, it would cost him about $40 dollars for two HID kits, so that's $245 he's pocketing for the install. The low beams take about... 15 minutes to install. The Fog Lights should take about 2 hours for a professional. So that's an hourly rate of $114 wow lol. i wish I could work for that much

He might be tempted to remove the bumper for the fog light install.. but that's just wasted time and effort.

Trust me 8000k is annoying and very inefficient approx like 24 percent less efficient in lumens compared to 4300. I'm already sick of my 6000K (12% less efficient) sometimes due to the slightly blueish tinge to it. I sometimes wish I went with 5000k (6% less efficient) which is diamond white.

 

It cost me $95 to have both DRLs and the OEM Foglights installed at a local audio shop. The time involved was probably more than that to have the HIDs and Fogs installed because there was additional wiring fr the DRLs. Shop around, it will save you a bundle!

 

Thanks to three of you for responding

The guy did gave me an option of bringing the kits to him and he will do the install including the HID (Low and high beams ) + fog lights kit install and HID conversion.
And for that he said he will charge at @65 and hour. which should work out to about $140-$150 at most (with conservative estimates). so then cost of the HID kits would be around $135.00 or so for Low/High and Fog lamps - we are talking 3 sets here. I wonder if he is asking for labor more by compromising the quality of the HID kits

Any ideas/leads where I get the HIDs for lot less but not compromising on the quality ?

also I will look for some more shops including craigslist for individual guys doing this kind of service. thanks for the insight into it.

And on the HID color specs - I will then scale down to either 6000K or 4300K as being suggested. the only thing is my daughters wanted the bluish appeal on them. and in that HID ranges 4300K - 12000K , I thought to go with mid range 8000k, but after your reviews I think going with 6000K or less makes sense.

Thanks again.

 

Please note that High and low beam operation involves two different bulbs of different types.

Before you change your High beams to HID consider that HIDs do have a warm up period for approximately 10 seconds for digital ballasts. So when you try and Flash someone that just cut you off... or flash someone to make a turn you are putting a strain on the ballasts because they have to ignite the Xenon lamps every time with a high amp draw. Plus they aren't even close to full power within the first 2 seconds of current applied.

I recommend HID Highbeams for lots of country side driving etc... or to just force someone that cut you off to dim their mirrors and retract their side view mirrors haha.

 

Hmm... thanks I learned something new and interesting again ( besides the max 4 headlamps rule)

so what is the suggestion here?

convert only low beam to HID and leave the high beam to the factory bulb ? and convert the fog to HID as well ? it also makes sense as we rarely use high beams in city /metro areas. is this a better way to go? I will save some bucks as well in the process.

 

Sorry all, but I have a problem with installation. In step 5.1, it says to locate the brown wire on the lower ECU and attach the red wire to it. There appears to be a light brown wire on what I believe to be the lower ECU. Is that the brown wire they are talking about? If you look at the other wires in the area, you will see a few dark brown wires. I'm hoping it isn't one of those wires. Also, the instructions say to remove the tape, but I don't see much tape to be removed. So, I was thinking I'm looking at the wrong wire.

I connected the red wire to the light brown wire with that contraption, but it doesn't seem to work. In the morning, I'll make sure that the contraption is making good contact with the wires. It got a little late, so I stopped for the eveninng.

Otherwise, I think I'm done with the installation. Once you all set me straight on this wiring, I think I'll be good to go.

Thanks.

Dumb Mike

 

Assuming you found the correct *light brown* wire, take a pair of pliers and put some light pressure on the *red contraption* until the metal part is pretty much level with the red housing. This ensures contact with both the wires.

Assuming you found the wrong wire... just refer to picture 5.0 or 5.1
and just tap the only light brown wire in that bundle of wires in those pictures. I'm trying to put it in layman's terms as best as I can haha.



I-Sheet_Fog Lamp_2010_Prius_LAYOUT_color.pdf

 

Thanks for the quick response. I'm thinking that I didn't sufficiently close that contraption. I'll give it a shot later today.

The thing I worried about the most was whether I got the proper wire. I feel a little more confident that it is that lighter brown wire.

Thanks again.

Dumb Mike

 

Cloud, thanks again. That was the correct wire. For others installing the fog lights, I'd suggest that you go to your local Radio Shack and buy T-Tabs instead of using that reddish colored gizmo to connect the red wire to the brown wire in picture 5.1 of the instructions. Radio Shack calls them Quick Splice Connectors. I believe their part number is 64-037.

And if you use Radio Shack's connector, I'd suggest that you solder that red wire to the male part of the T-Tab before you start, so that that you are not doing the soldering inside the car, like I had to do. There were no problems, but stuff can happen and no need having a soldering iron inside your car if you can avoid it.

It took me about 4 hours to complete the installation. However, this was spent over 2 days. I got tired and had to go to get some sleep, then finished it the following afternoon. So it was 3 hours for everything except that dreaded red wire to brown wire connection. Then 1 hour to buy the T-Tab, solder and install.

The other issue was whether to connect the lights to the housing before or after connecting the housing to the bumper. I installed the lights to the housing first, but had difficulty getting the tabs on the bumper to snap in properly with the housing. I then took the lights out of the housing, installed the housing, then installed the lights into the housing.

The installation wasn't mentally difficult (except for that red wire/brown wire problem I had), but getting under the car and removing those screws/bolts and putting the screws/bolts back was tiring. Also, crawling under the dash wasn't very easy.

Thanks to everyone on this thread because you pretty much answered all of the questions I had beforehand.

Dumb Mike

 

I've got condensation/moisture building up inside both foglight lens since I installed them a few months ago. It started when the weather got cooler and rains.

I also have the yellow JDM bulbs and remember they didn't go all the way in to 'click'. I'm guessing that's the problem but hate to pull them out and put the white bulbs back in.

I've been running the foglights to burn off the condensation but was wondering if anyone else has had this problem and if there's a way to solve it (other than just turning the foglights on).

 

anyone know if this offer for the light kit is still available? I tried ordering it last night and just now but everytime when I clicked on the final confirmation order button it would just direct me back to my cart with the lights order sitting in the car. When I checked under my account info under the orders I have placed, it said that I do not have any orders.