fog light questions.

[99camryWV]

When I bought my car the guy who sold it to me had two brand new Hella brand fog lights that needed installed. They look like projectors, but they are an h3 bulb I believe. The bracket that is on the car has holes that look like they match up with the brackets on the bulb, but they are all rusted. The bumper was cut to put these fog lights on so I guess they were not oem.. My question is more about the wiring though. I will have to cut the adapter off and rewire them or find the other side of the clip to wire to the wires coming from the bulb. How do I tell which wire goes to which wire, and does anyone know where to find one of those clips?

[Stonegrave]

-Wiring-

-On the car-
I would take the obvious route and try to follow the wires(If they are easy to follow). That, or turn the switch on and see which wire is getting 12v(Hope you have an voltmeter, otherwise you get to lick your finger and grab 'em! hahaha).

-On the projector-
The wire going directly from the h3 bulb is positive. The wire that is attached to the housing is the ground.

I can never find a spade connector that matches(Even for the same gauge wire they always seem to be different sizes for different manufacturers), so I usually end up cutting both of them off and using a new matching pair.

If the h3 has a male spade on it maybe go to the store and see if you can find a female that will fit it snug, so that way you only have to install one connector(to the car's original wire).



-About the brackets-

Usually the threads are on the projector housing itself, so if the brackets are rusted it doesn't matter. If the threads are on the bracket, try shooting some WD40 in there and threading the bolt in by hand(I'm assuming you have the correct bolt). If it goes in nicely, obviously no problem!!! If not, try using a wrench and not too much pressure(No gorilla stuff! Pretend you are a mouse! Those bolts are small and fragile haha). If it seems like its a no-go, the only way to fix it is to run a tap through it. At that point you would have to take the bolt to the hardware store and find out what size thread it is using and hope they have a tap in stock.

I have had so many problems with dumb aftermarket foglights on our race cars to know that they suck. Haha.

Hope this helps! Good luck!!!!

[99camryWV]

This is what the bulb housing looks like. There is a bracket already attached to the car, but the adjuster on it sits back farther and this one has an adjuster on the bulb and not the bracket. They don't even come close to touching each other when mounted..

http://www.rallylights.com/detail.aspx?ID=188

I just wonder if it wouldn't be easier to just buy new ones that come with he bracket and remount them..

[99camryWV]

So Adalex has been helping me with this, but this is different than any of the pictures or anything he sent me. These brackets are just bolted to the bumper support as opposed to the c clip that goes around the bumper support and has studs coming off of it..

[adalex]

yea those brackets are nothing close to the oem ones O.o mine doesn't even bolt into anything theres two brackets that sandwhich themselves around the support bar and the fogs bolt up to that with nuts holding it on

[99camryWV]

Does anybody else have something like this? Do you think they just drilled and tapped those bolts in there or what?

[frank5079]

I'd love to adapt this bumper, headlights, and fog lights to my car.....