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Old Jun 11, 2017 | 09:19 PM
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Using for light harness for driving lights?

Well im fed up with my factory hids. Different bulbs and different adjustments on my 02r53 and they still suck. Yes I have cleaned the lenses. Doing face lift seems like alot of money and work. For a while i have been wanting driving lights on the front and being i never use the fogs i figured i could use that wiring and switch to run some driving lights. I have some questions though.
What watt are the factory fogs i have the h7 harness?
I need these to run without blinding people is that possible?
I have found h7 extender harnesses but no round driving lights use the h7 bulb SO I assume i can buy extender harness and just hardwire to new lights?

Basically i want to use the relay and switch from the exsisting fog light to controll driving lights. This is probably a little more work but its what would like to do.
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Also what round light woulld be best? I need focused distance. I cant seem to find the chinese projector kit anymore unfortunatly or this would all be alot easier.
 
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Old Jun 13, 2017 | 07:48 PM
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By definition driving lights throw out as much light as possible in front of the car. Don't know of a set you could use in place of fogs that wouldn't blind oncoming drivers.
If you want to replace the fogs with driving lights, be aware that the stock system disables the fog light wiring when high beams are switched on, which would defeat your purpose. Not sure if that's done in the BCM or via a relay.
 
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