Looking to add some extra light to my 01 dodge-the headlights suck-I will be mounting the light onto a custom light bar on the front bumper and am looking for street legal fog and driving lights. Have room for 2 sets of 2 so what everyone running?
Street Legal Fog/Driving lights????
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Light Force is what I use primarily ...you can dial the light to what you want ...spot ..or flood and is awsome in the ditches plus you can change the lenses from clear to yellow, green, and Blue and there is even 2 types of clear one for flood and one for spot ..then I run 4 KC 100s bump em to 210 and good to go !!
I don't know what it is lately, but seems everyone is driving around with 300 watt fog lamps, pointing straight in the face of on coming traffic. Is there a anti fog light system I can buy somewhere. About ready to mount a giant mirror on the front of my truck, so I can give them back, some of what I'm getting.
I'm thinking the same thing...
haha not the case with my truck-seems like the headlights should be blinkers but i know what you mean. I am leaning towards a set of hella driving and hella fog lights-yellow lensed.
heres mine
this is my setup. nice and bright on the highways.
*edit - they are Hellas
this is my setup. nice and bright on the highways.
*edit - they are Hellas
If you want to be "legal", don't even bother with any other brand other than PIAA.
To my knowledge, honestly, even PIAA aftermarket fog lights are not 'legal'. Unless they came from the factory I don't think they are truly "legal", however, here is my logic:
The factory fog lights on 2003+ GM trucks are supposedly "legal" but how damned bright are these things? Well, to oncoming traffic very ... to you, the driver with them, what good do they do? Damn near nothing. They kinda help, but not really.
I get brighted ALL THE TIME with my GM factory fog lights on on my 05' Silverado ..
Anyways, on my old truck I had a pair of PIAA 510 Ion Crystal fog lights ....
First and foremost, HOLY MOTHER OF GOD do those lights work! WOW.... I mean I've missed them _BADLY_ ever since that deer committed suicide on my front bumper. WOW did those things work, especially in the snow....that amber beam they had was perfect for snow and snowfall.
The other kicker is, I don't think I _EVER_ got brighted once using the 55w PIAA 510's ... the way they design the lens on that series of light diffuses light to oncoming traffic almost perfectly...IE, to oncoming traffic those fog lights, even being 55W instead of 35W, appeared dimmer than the factory GM fogs on my new truck do.....and, they put off so much more usable light it's not even funny.
The bottom line is, if you don't wanna blind the **** out of incoming traffic and actually want fog lights that ACTUALLY WORK, it is _WELL_ worth the money to buy the PIAA 510's or 520 Ion Crystal fog lights .... You wont regret it.
I'm getting another set as soon as I get a grille guard put on my new truck.
haha thats what im talking about got darkness?
Looking at these
http://store.summitracing.com/partdetail.asp?part=HLA-005700881
http://store.summitracing.com/partdetail.asp?part=HLA-H13893601
Off of the colorado state patrol site
Another popular upgrade is vehicle lighting. There are lamps of various sizes, shapes and colors available for purchase. The laws that govern lighting and lamps are long and can be confusing. To keep this as simple as possible, here are a few of the basics: · Headlights and other white lamps must be limited to a total of four. · Accessory lights must be non-glaring and are limited to the colors of white and amber or any color in between white and amber. · At no time are, red, blue and green lights allowed if visible from the front of the vehicle.
Looking at these
http://store.summitracing.com/partdetail.asp?part=HLA-005700881
http://store.summitracing.com/partdetail.asp?part=HLA-H13893601
Off of the colorado state patrol site
Another popular upgrade is vehicle lighting. There are lamps of various sizes, shapes and colors available for purchase. The laws that govern lighting and lamps are long and can be confusing. To keep this as simple as possible, here are a few of the basics: · Headlights and other white lamps must be limited to a total of four. · Accessory lights must be non-glaring and are limited to the colors of white and amber or any color in between white and amber. · At no time are, red, blue and green lights allowed if visible from the front of the vehicle.
haha thats what im talking about got darkness?
Looking at these
http://store.summitracing.com/partdetail.asp?part=HLA-005700881
http://store.summitracing.com/partdetail.asp?part=HLA-H13893601
Off of the colorado state patrol site
Another popular upgrade is vehicle lighting. There are lamps of various sizes, shapes and colors available for purchase. The laws that govern lighting and lamps are long and can be confusing. To keep this as simple as possible, here are a few of the basics: · Headlights and other white lamps must be limited to a total of four. · Accessory lights must be non-glaring and are limited to the colors of white and amber or any color in between white and amber. · At no time are, red, blue and green lights allowed if visible from the front of the vehicle.
You will blind the living **** out of oncoming traffic with either of those lights, I promise.
Either one of those people will be brighting you non-stop with ..
I'm tellin ya, it's worth it to get the PIAA's ...
http://www.performancecenter.com/pr...e_sub=Auxiliary+Lighting&sf4=PIAA&universal=0
They're expensive but well worth it
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Is there any way to fix the high beams on 2002 Superduty. My low beams with the stock fog lights are 10 times brighter than just the high beams. When you switch to high beam, the fog lights turn off and you can't see crap. Plus I get flashed alot when driving with the lows and fogs. Any remedies????
i hit the brights everytime one of these dumbazzes go by thinking they are the only people on the road. are the people who run these things just stupid or rude, or both??? if you need that much light to see where your going maybe you should stick to driving in the daylight...
Don't run anything pointing toward the front except for clear or yellow. If you run the blue or green you will get stopped. At least where i am from you will ...................
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.........I would love to have some extra lights but make sure you use ones that are legal. only emergency vehicles can have blue pointing toward the front and on your personal vehicle only white or yellow pointing toward the front
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Obviously you have never driven an older dodge before let alone one at night. I average 7k miles a month on this truck and if i want to see a little better im going to do it. If you cant stand the lights its you that needs to stay off the roads at night.
blinding oncoming traffic so you can see better is a pretty bad excuse ...
It was funny, on my old truck I had stock dim bulbs, 100-watt Optilux bright bulbs, quad beam kit, then I had PIAA 520 SMR driving lights and PIAA 520 Fogs on my bumper. ..
I was always ENORMOUSLY cautious not to have my brights on driving down the road if there was any traffic at all, but my PIAA fogs I could have on all the time, and I don't think I ever got brighted once..
But, I'd see somone who put a set of those driving or fogs on then cruise down the road with them blaring into my eyes as if this was perfectly acceptable ...
I'd flash them once, then if they didn't shut the damned things off, they got the full-tilt eye sore from me ...
Usually at that point they figured it out.
It's really _NOT_ a good idea to be driving down the highway with lights that blind incoming traffic man...
Like I said, I don't even run the factory GM fogs for that reason and they came "legal" on the truck ....
2nd for piaa. Have a set of 6" driving lights in my bumper and although they are still pointed a little to much down, the still work great. The color they produce make it easy to see ice crystals sparkling on the road at night; telling me to slow down.
You are the guy everyone is complaining about. No way that is legal on roads.
Factory Fogs w/brights?
Do you have the factory fog lamps on yours? If so you can jump the relay under the hood so that they stay on when you go to brights. Makes a big difference. Wanted to do the sport headlight conversion on my 01 but budgeting constraints axed that idea, this was a great, cheap, easy alternative. Good luck!
Do you have the factory fog lamps on yours? If so you can jump the relay under the hood so that they stay on when you go to brights. Makes a big difference. Wanted to do the sport headlight conversion on my 01 but budgeting constraints axed that idea, this was a great, cheap, easy alternative. Good luck!
no rainman it does not have the stock foglights and all you guys worried about blinding oncoming traffic its all about aim you cant just mount them and go sure i could see where your all coming from but 400 bones for some lights that will just get trashed doesnt seem worth it. These lights are no brighter than the ones that ford puts on the trucks and those guys drive around with those on 24/7.
