"fog" lights
One of the little yellow (and practically useless) fog lights in the bumper of my truck took on water and failed. While searching for a replacement, I ran across deepspacelighting.com and their customized morimoto led replacements.
It only took about 30 minutes to install and adjust them last night. All I can say is Wow!, they are really nice lights! They are so bright that you can cover the regular low beam lights and not even miss them. I sure hope they are legal:D I had no immediate plans for further lighting upgrades, but now that these little lights make my regular lights look so jaundiced, that I am reconsidering the upgrade. |
David Dixon is the man behind Deep Space Lighting | Quality, application-specific HID lighting He's a very smart guy. Real nice too. He goes to the HDT Rally , I've met him there. I've heard lots a great reviews of his lighting upgrades. I just realized one of the crappy fog lights on my truck is out. I might have to buy some better lights now.
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Only problem I have is that Dave doesn't have any lights to replace the large rectangular fog lights on my truck. Darn.
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Man those are nice! Maybe i'll add those too.
the freaking headlights in the columbia SUCK! Bob - add as set of Rigid Industry driving lamps (like i did)....theyre pricey but throw an AMAZING amount of light. https://www.truckconversion.net/attac...305d823cec.jpg https://www.truckconversion.net/attac...38962d64f0.jpg |
Hi Don,
Your fog lights will be on the way shortly. We do also have an upgrade for the Columbia headlights--really clean setup that replaces the whole housing--but not cheap either. Rigid makes good lights, just don't run those anywhere high beams wouldn't be appropriate. Bob--Get me some pictures of what you have. I'm working on a mounting system for the gen-1 Volvos, which are a rectangular opening also. Might be able to make a similar version that would work for your truck. Hope you plan to make the rally this year--the drums, popcorn, and cookies have been missed (not that anyone went hungry...). |
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I just can't see paying 1200 bucks for replacement headlights for an occasional use vehicle. Im sure professional drivers (and maybe full timers) justify the expense much easier. Quote:
FWIW - i had mistakenly order the spot patterned from Rigid for our TOAD (wrangler) and imo they were too narrow (hell you couldn't even tell there were TWO beams they were so narrow in their throw, they went back IMMEDIATELY and replaced them w/ the Rigid Dually (4 LED pre light) in the FLOOD pattern which suites the Jeep Wrangler much better. I've gotten more complaints from a poorly aligned passenger side OE headlight then i have on the rigid lamps. |
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Photo of deep space fog lights installed.
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This is the best picture I can find of my front end. I guess I should take some closer up ones. The lights are those ones down low.
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I think they're just a standard fog type light. They mount with one bolt it looks like. I'll take some close ups and measure next time I'm at the rig.
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might be a nice alternative for you bob....or even a 2 smaller light bars so you could aim them independently. |
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I bought some HID lights to replace my current candles....I have them installed but not all the way hooked up. They installed easy and neat, I just have to hook the feed wire up to the place where you jump start the truck, just out of pocket for a while. Got them from xenondepot and the price was good less than $150.00, I will give an update as soon as I get them hooked up.
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Thanks petrel!
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Im very curious about your install and end results. I have a fair amount of experience in retro-fitting HID bulbs (and associated ballast and igniters). Ill be curious to hear what your impressions are about beam pattern and throw when the bulbs are used in factory / OEM reflectors/lens'. |
I've sent Dave at DeepSpace all the photos and measurements of my truck's lighting configuration. I hope he can build (and I can afford) a complete lighting upgrade, while also retaining much of the truck's original appearance.
I completely agree with the previous remark about costly lighting in "occasional use" vehicles. However, a considerable amount of my use occurs at night. I just finished up CDL school. After a month of talking about hazard avoidance and stopping distances, I've decided that I need to be able to see a bit better both at night with better headlights, and during the day with my newly acquired (and first pair of) eyeglasses! |
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Hey Duff,
I think i have the the shielding in place for the low beams here is a picture for you. tryed to rotate it.....oh well..... Sam Quote:
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After driving at night for several hundred miles I can talk about my lights. They are whiter than my originals, they throw the same distances but you can see out there, before it was dark( reason for upgrade) I have the lens that has the shield in front of the bulb. So when I hit the brights I can't tell much of a difference. So am I happy driving with these lights , yes, only thing is I had to really read the instruction and triple check things, had to reverse the factory plugs to get the polarity to match the new.
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