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Old 04-15-2013 | 01:14 PM
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Hello. I just got a pretty nice pair of used piaa fogs lights from a friend for free and they are much too big to be put into the stock location for fogs. I was wondering two things:

1) Would the fog lights be completely ineffective if I mounted them on windshield pillar mounts and
2) If I did go with the aforementioned mount, would I be able to replace the fog lamps with driving bulbs using the same wiring harness? Thanks in advance.
Old 04-15-2013 | 01:31 PM
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Nice friend... 1) Fogs in the pillars will reflect too much off the hood and cause a glare on your windshield 2) the reflector is what makes the difference between light patterns, so changing bulbs won't get you any farther.

Why not a light bar on the bumper? Or the quadratec light mounts? Like so:


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Old 04-15-2013 | 01:44 PM
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Originally Posted by Atlacatl
Nice friend... 1) Fogs in the pillars will reflect too much off the hood and cause a glare on your windshield 2) the reflector is what makes the difference between light patterns, so changing bulbs won't get you any farther.

Why not a light bar on the bumper? Or the quadratec light mounts? Like so:


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I just installed the rugged ridge modular xhd so that's not an option unless i wanted to put them on the bull bar which I absolutely do not.
Old 04-15-2013 | 02:01 PM
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Originally Posted by Atlacatl
Nice friend... 1) Fogs in the pillars will reflect too much off the hood and cause a glare on your windshield 2) the reflector is what makes the difference between light patterns, so changing bulbs won't get you any farther.

Why not a light bar on the bumper? Or the quadratec light mounts? Like so:


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are the reflectors interchangeable?
Old 04-15-2013 | 05:47 PM
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Originally Posted by justinstoffregen
are the reflectors interchangeable?
Probably. But you may have problems finding them.
Old 04-16-2013 | 02:47 AM
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I have my hella fogs mounted low. If you mount them on the pillar, in fog, you will be blind rendering the lights useless.




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