Im building my new bumper and its going to have hella lights in it. does anyone know if i could cut the wires off my factory fog lights and run the hella's off them. could that handle those lights. Im sure there not that much wattage or anything.

 

the power goes through a fairly heavy relay - so you should be fine.

 

i would think the wires are fine to swap over to your new lights.

 

Yes, i have seen it done. one thing that is recommended however is that you splice in a fuse in the wire since the fuse that the fog lights are hooked up to is pretty weak. Again, dont know for certain, i havent tried it, but my dads 98 sport he did that too with some sort of a fancy aftermarket fog light in place and had to put a fuse in line since he kept blowing the one in fuse box. again, we dont know for sure, but it worked....

so i guess you could just wait until its done to see what happens, not like splicing a fuse takes any brains or anything

 

I agree, you should be safe. I like the additional fuse idea.

But if you want to play it safe, you can always put a relay and activate it through the original wiring.

It should set you back less than 10 bucks in a relay and a couple of wires. I would use 12 gauge wire, Just a thought

 

make sure the wire is heavy enough. i used some small guage wire and somehow it burnt up the actual switch itself in the dash.

 

these are the lights imbuilding into the bumper. there only 55 watts so i think they should be alright.
http://www.hella.com/produktion/Hell.../Model_450.jsp