Daytime Running Lights

Has anyone used these as a replacement for their fog lights??
Universal Car Angel Eye Projector Fog Light Day Running (eBay item 270653205664 end time 22-Mar-11 14:28:17 AEDST) : Cars, Bikes, Boats

If so - are the outer rings very bright and how do they work as fog lamps?

Garry

Does anyone know if the headlight housing on a RRS/D3 can be split - to remove the front glass - and gain access to the inside of the light without wrecking them?

Thanks

Garry

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Originally Posted by garrycol

Does anyone know if the headlight housing on a RRS/D3 can be split - to remove the front glass - and gain access to the inside of the light without wrecking them? Thanks Garry

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If I have it correct, your wife can do it for you. I say that as per the link below, you will need either an hair dryer, oven, or I suppose if you do it yourself, a heat gun - that sounds masculine I suppose.

There are quite a number of pages of material and sub links on this disco3 thread, but many of the guys have been quite successful.
The main additional requirements are some blankets and clean hands, and or clean light gloves.

DISCO3.CO.UK - View topic - Headlamp opening and modification in photos

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Originally Posted by garrycol

If so - are the outer rings very bright and how do they work as fog lamps? Garry

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I have not actually installed them, but have been watching the thread for quite a few months now.

As best I can determine, in the daytime, the rings are quite visible, but that is not the same as providing illumination. They are the same rings as used in various BMW's for their angel lights. The rings fit behind diffusers within the BMW factory lights. At night, with the fog lights off, the rings are even more visible if that is good - I suppose so. I am always concerned about the cop bait bit but ....

What is unique about the install, is that whatever H11 bulb you now have in the factory fog light can stay in there and the wiring setup remain stock so that you still have fog lights when you want them. The LED rings you power separately from somewhere somehow with or without a separate switch, as you desire, again the cop bait concern. Being noticed in a Land Rover - well it is not the FFRR so maybe.

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Originally Posted by discojools

yeah sorry to go slightly off topic but what is this thing with 70% of drivers here in Victoria using their foglights at night (and sometimes during the day!) when it rarely foggy.. Seems to only add to glare for oncoming drivers.

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Oh FFS!!!
Don't get me started on my favorite rant:twisted:
Coppers here in Warragul are having a "Road Safety Blitz" at the moment, so I was asking a copper if they were going to book driver for having fog lights on when it's not foggy. All I got was a blank look.....

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Originally Posted by gghaggis

Hang on - aren't "fog" lights supposed to be aligned as a "low dipped" lamp so as to reduce scatter from fog? So they should blind less than standard low beam. I thought the blinding lights you see on on-coming vehicles (other than some idiot on high-beam) were generally "driving" lights, not specifically fog lights.

Cheers,

Gordon

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As foglights are supposeddly aimed lower to shine under fog on wet roads they reflect up off the wet bitumen and dazzle people.

Nah, good fog lights are mounted lower and aligned almost parallel with the ground, which means they are more likely to shine into oncoming traffic when there's no fog to block the light.

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Originally Posted by Graeme

Nah, good fog lights are mounted lower and aligned almost parallel with the ground, which means they are more likely to shine into oncoming traffic when there's no fog to block the light.

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Unless the boot is weighed down with 200kg of subwoofer boxes! :wasntme: Then foglights shine up instead of parallel to the ground. :mad:

That link to removing the lense is great, I've just cracked the n/s one on mine & LR want over £500 for a new unit :eek:

I might now be able to buy a cheap 2ndhand lamp off fleabay and swap the lense over, rather than hunt for the correct part number'd unit. There seems to be a vast plethora of different part numbers for RRS headlamps :mad:

Just a random thought, what about drilling :o into the reflector, and inserting a LED?

This could also give you the option of leaving it on if you are parked in a dark area on the side of the road for a long period.... thinking Merc here.

The same could also be done in your tail lights.

If you got really clever, why not make the LED's dimmable, so that during the day, you can have them on max brightness, and when parked up at night, dimmed down as a marker light.