Any one know if you can re-utilize the factory driving lamp mounts with hellas?

 

Not sure if you already have your answer.

You will need to dremmel the grille out.

You won't be able to tell it because the lights should
conceil where you cut.

Here's a pic.

http://i214.photobucket.com/albums/c...Picture008.jpg

Notice the black line where the chrome should be. Well, you can
cut the chrome out just a bit and it will slide back on. Which I did.
My problem is that a big wind came when I was backing out and
I ran over mine.

 

I already installed, i had factory driving lamps which were pre cut but the brackets did not support the hellas, connected them to the grill and now im all good

 

That's odd.

My brackets worked great.

It was that they were too deep toward the grille that
was the problem.

I'm glad it worked out for you.

 

You had the OEM brackets?

 

I bought the kit from the mail order dealer always linked on this site.
I forget the name this second. It came with instructions, a plastic
grille (the black part) with holes for the brackets, and brackets.
I had to remove the chrome pieces and put them on the new.
It took a while. I could have just drilled out a slot on my existing
grille.

There are better much better brackets made by a NAM vendor I did
not know about them at the time. The existing grille could have been
drilled out to fit and you could never see it. Using the non OEM
brackets I would not have had to cut my plastic chrome pieces to
make them fit. Big lessons learned but I'm not making a do-over.

The non OEM foglights (those are foglights BTW, not driving lights.
I use them as DRLs, they are pointed slightly lower than my low beams)
were too deep for the OEM bracket, so I really had to cut the grille
to allow them to bolt on. You can't see it because it is behind
the lights. It took a while too. Cut, put them on, take them off, repeat.

It took me all day to do this. So $50 more and all day, for a not as
perfect solution.

They are not wired to the lights in anyway, thus, they can be used as
DRLs. (manual switch on the knee panel)

 

I Replaced my oem driving lights with the 500's, I just mounted them to the grill. I have my grill cut but you cant see the holes because of how i mounted them. ill take a pic so you can see how i did it. I also have a jcw grille as well.

 

That sounds great.

I wish I had known more/educated myself better before I started the project.

I'm glad too I'm not the only one that thought $900 for front lights
was a "bit excessive".