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Old Oct 6, 2013 | 10:05 PM
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Alero fog lights as Firebird turn signals

I never really liked my Firebird's front turn signals. (not my car)



Looked around online when I got it in '99, didn't find any replacements, and never really thought about it again.
Ten I bought an Olds Alero in '02 for a daily driver. It was a base model, so I bought fog lights from eBay to add on, around '03 or so.



huh... I've seen that shape before.....
So today I finally put them on.







They're almost flush to the bumper cover, odd angle makes it look like there's a gap. Sorry about crappy pic, I was losing the daylight, and can't back it out of garage due to other upgrades.

Lights were $30+ shipping (ten years ago), bulbs were $6 each, plus I bought 2 $5 connectors from Rock Auto to connect the bulbs to the car wiring. Wires were soldered and wrapped with electrical tape. Total cost was probably $60.

The light is bright yellow, and the lights work like factory. They have adjusting screws, so you can adjust the up/down and left/right as needed.

Just thought others might be interested.
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Old Oct 6, 2013 | 10:26 PM
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Re: Alero fog lights as Firebird turn signals

Hmm... very interesting. That looks very nice to me!
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Old Oct 8, 2013 | 03:44 PM
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Re: Alero fog lights as Firebird turn signals

you have some pics with them on?
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Old Oct 10, 2013 | 11:44 AM
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Re: Alero fog lights as Firebird turn signals

That is a pretty cool mod man. You should post some more pics of that.
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Old Oct 11, 2013 | 09:54 AM
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Re: Alero fog lights as Firebird turn signals

Thumbs WAY up! I love tasteful thinking outside the box.
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Old Oct 11, 2013 | 11:01 PM
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Re: Alero fog lights as Firebird turn signals

I did something similar a number of years back. '99 GMC Denali foglights fit the curvature of the aero nose almost perfectly.
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Old Jul 9, 2014 | 09:29 AM
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Re: Alero fog lights as Firebird turn signals

so this a a foglight and turn signal?
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