AssaulT/A

I've got the stock foglights in my T/A, but i ran into a ditch and the lenses and bulbs both shattered. The housings are still mounted in the bumper and are holding, and they appear to be sturdy. After seeing some outrageous prices on Hawks, i was wondering...can i just cut some new foglight lenses out of a flat sheet of acrylic? seems to me like it would be easy but I'm looking for flaws that i may have missed.

BLUETA

Check with Denny at thirdgenranch.com for used lenses available for $5.00. You can buff them out yourself.

Jim85IROC

iTrader: (2)

There are a ton of cheap fog light kits (Rally comes to mind) that use the same lenses that will interchange with your factory housings. They aren't like IROC lights that are totally unique from anything else on earth.

dctrouant1995

Go buy the universal kit from advance for like 20 bucks, you have to disassemble both lights (the factory set and the new set) and use the just the metal reflector piece, new bulb, and glass, they fit in the factory housings. Do not cut any of the wire on the new fog lights. Cut the connectors off the old fog lights and wire them onto the end of the new ones. Its really easy and you can still adjust them liken factory and they are brighter.

AssaulT/A

well the reason I ask this is because I already have some HID bulbs ordered for them, and I dont really want to buy a whole foglight when all I really need is the lenses.

dctrouant1995

Oh, nevermind then haha.

AssaulT/A

It seems like I could just trace the shape of the housing on some clear acrylic, cut it out, drill some screw holes, and be in business. Am I missing something?

dctrouant1995

It may work. I know the glass has like a ridge or something along the inside and the glass itself is fairly think. But if you do not use the factory end caps it should work.

BLUETA

If you use clear acrylic, you will have a driving light, not a fog light. It will be a pencil bean of light reaching waaay out. Fog lights spread the beam left/right to cover the road in front of the car while limiting the up/down light. Limiting the up/down light reduces the reflection off the fog. You need lenses with fluting which are the bumps in the glass that direct the light. A driving light has no fluting causing the light to go straight ahead. A fluted fog light spreads the beam left/right.

AssaulT/A

i never knew that...is fluting something i could do myself?

BLUETA

Think not, it is molded into the glass. On plastic, you would need to know exactly where to put the bumps, you would have to cut them in, and then polish them. So, you are back to (1) Buy new lights, (2) Buy new lenses, (3) Buy used lenses. I would go with 1 or 3. If 3, you should be able to clean up the lenses with glass polish like they use on headlights. Or you could probably use the finest polishing compound which is available for free in your own home, toothpaste.

AssaulT/A

In that case, I'll have to check out thirdgenranch and see what's up over there. Thanks for the help!