It always bothered me that only the top 1/3rd of the light housing lit up when driving around with the running lights on. As someone who disagrees with running fog lights in nice weather, it often left me with a poorly lit light during most driving. I pulled the housings out and modified them to accept an additional w5w bulb to light up the lower 2/3rds. I hooked them up to the wiring from the arch reflector bulbs that had long since been shaved on my car and now the complete housing lights up amber...reminiscent of the classic minis. The pictures will hopefully shed light on the process for those interested. Before shot with only partial illumination: After with full illumination:
Are you referring to the fog lights? Yes. The fog light bulbs have no problem overpowering the little w5w bulbs and will light up as well as they did stock. Alone the w5w's don't really put out any real light pattern....just enough to light up the housing. I'm running the yellow nokya fogs which are nice and bright when they're on
Amber Fogs And Parking Lights :drool I just ordered my amber H8 front fog lights and my W5W LED equivalent front amber parking lights. All amber forward except for high and low beams which, of course, remain white. See posts above for representative photos. Jason
Amber Fogs And Parking Lights :cornut:UPDATE(08 R56 MCS/JCWm) The LED amber front parking light bulbs, apparently, don't draw as much current/amps as the incandescent bulbs(194/W5W) and therefore the computer thinks that they are burned out and displays the 'burned out bulb' symbol on the tach. Now I could use the Crashton/Nathan 'Black Tape' cover up method but, then I wouldn't be able to see any 'idiot lights'. Sooooooooooo it's back to incandescent amber front parking light bulbs. However,the H8 PIAA 'Plasma Ion Yellow' incandescent fog lamps are working great and truly don't reflect back like white bulbs do nor do they blind oncoming traffic. At least, no one's flicking their brights at me and 1/2 of them have their fog lamps(50% white/50% yellow/amber) on with their low beams anyway. Jason