Read through every search result for fog lights but it looks like they were mainly for aftermarket fog light being installed. I'm guessing the original fog lights on the 8 are H11. But my main question is who has replaced just the bulb to get a better match with the Xenon lights. Anyone have pictures? Do you think the PIAA H11 Extreme White Plus will match the stock Xenon lights well?

http://www.piaa.com/Bulbs/Bulbs-H11.html

 

I know i've many threads about this in the past year or so....

 

well ****, I can't find any of the threads in my 2 minute search! But I swear I've seen a few about this topic.

 

None of those bulbs will give you a "match." The real match would be to put HID's the fogs like Rasp there. I've tried alot of bulbs dude, but the closest they seem to match is from far away. I'm going with some yellow fogs, they're coming in on Monday. I'll post some pics then too.

 

You sure? I bought the PIAA's super white for the eggs shaped lights near the Xenon and they match very close. I'm thinking if its the same color as the egg shaped ones it will look pretty close.

 

BTW how hard is it to take of the front bumper?

 

Not hard, but you don't NEED to take it off to replace the fog bulbs. Just go in from the bottom (unscrew the 3 clips on the bottom of the car by wheels and the 3 or 4 screws on the bottom inside of the air dam) you will have to do this for both sides. No need to take the entire nose off.

I just replaced with a set off of ebay. Color temp matches real well.
If anyone is interested I found them here: http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/ws/eB...MEWN%3AIT&rd=1


Now, I have to find a replacement for the fun to change driving lights (the circular closest to the middle of car next to the headlight) comes on with parking lights. It uses a 194 same as the side marker.

I put a xenon 194 bulb in but still not matched color with HID or Fog H11 replacement.

 

Here's one of em: https://www.rx8club.com/showthread.p...hlight=HID+fog

 

TxRx8,
What yellow fogs have you ordered? I'm planning on going that route too.

 

Just convert to HID fogs!

 

piaas are the closest match to HID if you dont want to go full HID, but they are expensive... about 100 a pair.

im also lookin into these but might go with a cheaper alternative

 

I have piaa extreme whites.

https://www.rx8club.com/showthread.p...day+mazdaspeed

The hids look blue because I replaced the inner lights with "hyper white leds." They have a slight blue tint. I'm sure the camera flash emphasized the blue a bit, but you can see how the fogs look.

 

Personally with HID headlights I think the fog lights are almost useless stock or replacement bulb. HID fogs have more output but oncoming traffic may not appreciate them as much. Wow they are bright RotaryRasp. Do you get flashed high beams very often from oncoming traffic?

I went with the inexpensive bulb H11 55Watt (don't go over this wattage unless upgrading wiring to fogs, can cause a melt down) the stock headlight HID's have a color temp of about 6,000K. Main reason I did the replacement was to match the color of the headlights, didn't care about Lumens but they are comparable in output to the stock halogen bulbs. They also give a nice electric blue look to the fog reflectors when off during the day.

For functionality yellow fogs yield the best results from what I have heard. Just not a fan of how they look.

 

I ordered a pair from autolumination.com "Neon Yellow Krypton" in H11. Dude they look sweet! Very yellow. I'll take some pics later.

 

I've got the PIAA lights in my fogs and Extreme Whites in my parking lights. I've gotten lots of good compliments on the color matches.

 

Here's a pic of my lights. I'll try to take another later tonight when it's darker.

 

Ok, it's darker.









I hope this helps.

 

Wow dazy, that looks pretty good!

Got a link for where I can buy some of those?

Damn you guys...spending even more money!!

 

I think my fogs are the same link as Cas2themoe posted. My parking lights are from autolumination.com and my side marker bulbs came with the clear corners, but I think they're available from autolumination.com too.

 

Oh, and thanks!!!

 

Dude, what kind of side marker bulbs are you using?
Do they really look that dark a blue, or only in the pic?
Right now the bulbs in my grand am are supposed to be darker blue, but they look light blue/whiteish...

 

i just recieved some h11s that i got off of ebay. the temp on them is 4500k which is very close to the stock hids.

will let you know on the match when i get my car back. the good thing is they were 12 bucks shipped. and they came fast.

ebay... rx8 ... the name is halo.

beers

 

these are the ones i mentioned.

pm for link or bigger photos if you like.

beers

 

I have the Xtreme whites in my fog lights and the PIAA wedge bulbs in the corner lenses, driver lights, and interior.
The fog lights look good, but if i were to do it again i would get the Xtreme Force bulbs from PIAA.