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Old Nov 9, 2005 | 09:22 PM
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I finally got the foglights intalled last night. I bought a complete oem foglight set from a guy of ebay about 2-3 months ago. The set was new in box and he said he never got around to installing them and after I got them and read the instructions I could see why. I got lucky though. I have a friend who is a dodge master mechanic that has his own shop and works in it after hours. He did alot of the work because I had never installed them before and didn't have a clue. We took the bumper off and intalled the new bumper inserts and foglights. All the wires were soldered right and the job was done better than I could have ever done myself. It took us about an hour and a half. If I did it, it would have taken probably the whole day. I plan to get matching blue fog light bulbs to match my headlights, but right now they are just factory bulbs. I couldn't believe how much better I could see at night with these foglights. I don't care if its not foggy...i'm still gonna have them on. I'll try to get some pictures of them after I get some matching blue bulbs for them. If ya'll have any questions about intalling some of your own just holler at me and I would be glad to help. The only thing that sucked about the installation was that the bumper had to come off, and running the new wires through the firewall was kinda a bitch cause I had to take the lower dash off and run them back up through the light switch hole from behind.[:@] -Tyler
 
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Old Nov 10, 2005 | 12:41 AM
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nice, I love having the fog lights. they help alot
 
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Old Nov 10, 2005 | 06:01 PM
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WHAT? and no pics? WTF... pics please.... jk [sm=icon_stickpoke.gif]
 
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Old Nov 10, 2005 | 07:18 PM
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I bought a set off ebay about a 2 years ago. I don't think they were exactly OEM, but they mounted like it. Anyway, do yours have Plastic lenses? If so, I'd highly recommend NOT increasing the wattage of the bulbs when you match your headlamps. I kept mine stock (the fog light bulbs) and I noticed about 6 months ago that the bulbs had started melting the lenses.

Just thought I'd advise of that problem.
 
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Old Nov 11, 2005 | 05:58 PM
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I'll get some pics hopefully before monday. I love the foglights...I run them all the time. I couldn't beleive how much better I could see at night with them. btw...they are plastic I think but the blue bulbs shouldn't have a higher wattage than stock...just different color. But thanks for telling me...I'll look at the wattage of them when i go to buy and try to stay around factory wattage. -Tyler
 
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Old Nov 12, 2005 | 01:50 PM
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Thats the problem I was trying to get across. I never changed the bulbs. I have the stock 37.5 watt (?) ones installed and they are the ones that are melting the lenses. Just FYI.
 
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Old Nov 12, 2005 | 05:35 PM
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I don't see how that should happen with these. They are oem foglights with the original light bulbs, besides I think they are plastic but melting? That would have to be some pretty strong bulbs.
 
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