Hella Micro De Fog Light Retro-Fit

Been thinking about doing a retrofit on the fog lights as well since the Mini H1 Headlight Retro Fit went so well. Was considering the Blazer fogs because of 'F8Ls' upgrade.


Some photos taken from here:FOG COMPARISON :: Hella, Blazer, Bosch, OEM Reflector

But wasn't happy with the beam pattern as fog lights... but they make a GREAT driving light with a GREAT cut off...but no foreground for fog light use...but after seeing the light pattern from the Hella Micro De Fog Light - pretty sure this is what I'll use:




Comparison of the light pattern - Blazer has awesome cutoff but barely any foreground:




I'll like mount them in the yellow lens housing foglights to keep the look I already have:



Retro fitting - Kinda like this - using a circle cutter or dremel to round out the back housing to mount the Hellas in the OEM fog light - thus retaining mounting points and aiming capability. I will be using a H3 3000k HID 55W setup with this



(FYI...the above fog lights aren't mind or the oem 3" fog lights - this image was pulled from a Tacoma retrofit using 4" fog lights.)

 

OMG... these OEM fog lights... die cast housings are a PITA..to cut open.. this may take a new direction shortly.

 

Thanks!! Anyone can do what I'm doing...just gotta make time...and have a willingness to want to try and learn. This is my 1st Prius...

 

Made more headway...
Hella Micro De mounted with JBWELD to OEM cast aluminum fog light




Chipped the glass lens while trying to separate the glass from the housing, ended up getting some .25" glass cut to 3.5" circles then coated them with 3 coats of Dupli-color Metalcast Yellow from TCPGlobal and 2 coats of clear spray paint to get the yellow lens look I wanted. Then resealed the lens with a waterproof silicone. You can see that the paint isn't 100% clear but doesn't stop the 3000k HID bulbs much. The good thing about doing the paint this way, I can remove the yellow paint at anytime in case I want to change the color of the bulb or lens and no longer have yellow fog lights but a 5000k driving light.


H3 3000k HID bulb held in by (6) washers


Because of the new length and size of fog light the bumper mounts for the oem bulb had to modifed and resized as well as a hole had to be opened behind the headlight for the length and the back of the HID bulb wires. This is a picture of roughly what was done with a dremel.

OEM ---------------------------------------------------------Modified


Installed


Just need the adjust the aiming...will have that done hopefully this wknd.