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      05-01-2019, 05:59 PM   #1
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All the led replacement fog lights I have found online have very different screw holes than this. You don't even need a screwdriver to get them out just lower the metal clip. The car is from Canada with xenon headlights but halogen fogs brag look yellow and bad. Any suggestions!? I'd love to upgrade them. A

Id like to replace them with this style but will settle for 6k led bulbs

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All the led replacement fog lights I have found online have very different screw holes than this. You don't even need a screwdriver to get them out just lower the metal clip. The car is from Canada with xenon headlights but halogen fogs brag look yellow and bad. Any suggestions!? I'd love to upgrade them. A

Id like to replace them with this style but will settle for 6k led bulbs

https://www.carid.com/winjet/factory...38;url=6821221
Just replace the bulb. Why replace the whole housing? It's just an H11.

Or buy oem. Also search. There's a couple threads about people installing these.
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All the led replacement fog lights I have found online have very different screw holes than this. You don't even need a screwdriver to get them out just lower the metal clip. The car is from Canada with xenon headlights but halogen fogs brag look yellow and bad. Any suggestions!? I'd love to upgrade them. A

Id like to replace them with this style but will settle for 6k led bulbs

https://www.carid.com/winjet/factory...14&url=6821221
LED fog lights are mounted differently than the halogen ones. They’re screwed from the rear instead of removed from the front. I guess the idea is you don’t need to replace a bulb in the LED ones so why do you need to easily remove them? That said, they complicated things by making a whole separate bumper harness for these lights as well.

Anyways, it requires a different harness on your bumper or a whole new bumper. I retrofitted them on my car here’s the guide. If you don’t go that route the best you can do is change the bulbs to something that matches either your xenons or the halos. That’s what I initially did but just wasn’t happy with the colour match or the look of them.

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As others have said, just replace the bulb with a quality H11 LED one.
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I replaced just bulbs for LED ones and works great, way better then OEM
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Ok thank you for the feedback. I went the route of led bulbs and pretty happy so far.
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I replaced just bulbs for LED ones and works great, way better then OEM
Which bulbs did you go with?
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Any type of H11 LED bulb would do, correct?
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I replaced just bulbs for LED ones and works great, way better then OEM
Which bulbs did you go with?

I don't remember the brand but it was one of those not too expensive ones $70 a pair, they were 6000K, I have them for about 6 months and no problem so far
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I replaced just bulbs for LED ones and works great, way better then OEM
Which bulbs did you go with?

I don't remember the brand but it was one of those not too expensive ones $70 a pair, they were 6000K, I have them for about 6 months and no problem so far
Ahh ok. Thanks
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