Rotary Titus

I've been looking at these Hella micro xenon driving lights
http://www.tirerack.com/accessories/...o_de_xenon.jsp
anyone put extra lighting on their cars? I remember it made a world of difference when driving at night on out of city highways and I can see 100s of feet farther and maybe aim them to the side to see around corners while driving fast at night.
wonder if I could swap out the factory fog lights and put these in and wire them so it turns on with highbeam?
or leave the foglights and add the extra set (might block radiator? or look weird with 4 lights in the bumper?)
thoughts/comments?

Racer X-8

You can't see far enough with the oem lights?

Matbe somehow add them to the upper left & right corners of the center grille, where it's not really a grille anyway.

edit: ROFLOL!!!!! The next two posts (at least) are a riot! Youz guys!...

S3/P3/E2

I've got ships at sea calling and asking me to turn mine down. I can't imagine seeing any further without burning out an oncoming driver's rods and cones.

FirstSpin

I can see a deer farting at half-a-mile away in the woods on my far left. JEEZE, get yourself some freakin night-vision goggles if the 8 lights aren't bright enough for ya....

Rotary Titus

there was a rumour cops caught some guy on the sea to sky highway a few years back running like 220km in a 360 with his headlights off and usuing night vision goggles :p
but I hear they aren't good for peripheral vision?
anyways... well it's not like I'm complaining they're so dim I can't see corners coming up fast enough, it's just that it COULD be better (ask any le mans or rally or offroad driver what a difference an extra light pod makes at night)
hmmm or oh well I guess I'll just use highbeams for now then

willhave8

Does seem to be a fair question. There has to be some constructive input out there..

(But the responses are pretty darn funny)

Speed-ER doc

This car has the best lights of any car I have ever driven. On low beam, the wide profile with sharply cut off top of the beam is superb, and on high beam, it is like looking out on a lighted football field from the end zone.

More could still be better, I agree. Don't let us dissuade you, put them on and show us some pics!

brothervoodoo

I think that's one of those urban legends, I heard the exact same thing but in a different locale!

93rdcurrent

Hey wait a minute I was the guy... and I was driving a Corvette... No, wait a minute it was a ... Ferrari Testarosa yah, yah, that's it. And it wasn't in British Columbia it was in South America... No, wait it was through Monte Carlo. And I made it on the cover of People... No, wait Time magazine... yah, yah that's it.

Rotary Titus

:p
yes I'll try to post before/after pics if I get them!

rtryrkt

Check out the "fog light rewire" post in the tech garage. It's everything and more you need to know about making your fog lights in to driving lights independent of the headlights.

Rotary Nut

It would be a neat mod to swap out the small inboard lamps with the Xenon ones ! That would be cool.

sea-rx8

Driving with night vision is impossible.....if you are traveling at 140mph and a car starts to come at you, the lights will blind you through the night vision and you WILL crash :-(

urban legend.... http://www.snopes.com/autos/law/stealth.asp

jaedcem

I have wondered the same thing, and finally found a post with this question. I never use my fog lights, as they don't seem to help much with the glare from the HID low beams, and would use some driving lights much more. It would be easy to rewire the fog light circuit (per the "fog light rewire" thread) to be on only when the high beams are on. Has anyone replaced the fog light housings with focused driving lights? I noticed that this post is almost two years old, and wonder if anyone has ever tried it.

And yes, the stock lights are quite good, but my last car was a European-spec grey market car with stock driving lights that put the RX-8's to shame. My brother-in-law drove that car and commented that the high beams were "like Giants Stadium."

pcimino

NO WAY! I was the gut driving with night vision goggles. Here's the picture to prove it!

crewshell

haha pcimino, that was funny!

416to212

To make the most of what you have you may want to consider swapping your H11 fogs with H9 Bulbs. I've written a How-To in the DIY forum.

I made a noticable difference.