Twin Foglights

Looking for some twin fog lights to modify to fit into my new lip kit, but i cant seem to find anything.

this is what im looking for

[IMG]http://www.seblan.com.au/Brabus/Front_qtr.jpg[/IMG]

The lip ive got

[IMG]http://www.octanemotorsports.com/images/03TYCOR4DNR1-099.jpg[/IMG]

I've been looking into the same thing. I guess the way to do is to just make a custom bracket for the fog lights out of fiberglass.

Same here, been thinkin of going this route lately
I know there a company in Japan that manufactures custom molds w/ dual fog lights but I think they are using full LED lighting :P


Also I know aimgain jus started selling inserts for their kits that you can get

I'd prefer something more clean like the ones you pictured
 
Panda is right though, gotta go custom fiberglass

Maybee try these and mold em ? :shrug:
 
[URL]http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/98-05-LAND-CRUISER-JDM-BLACK-HOUSING-DUAL-FOG-LIGHT-KIT-_W0QQcmdZViewItemQQhashZitem3a66598d47QQitemZ250825248071QQptZMotorsQ5fCarQ5fTruckQ5fPartsQ5fAccessories[/URL]

im thinking those may be too big

[QUOTE=truepaint;390780]im thinking those may be too big[/QUOTE]
 
You could always hit up the seller for dimensions =)

A good majority of the duals are custom. I would just try and make my own.

[QUOTE=shawnthemonster;390785]A good majority of the duals are custom. I would just try and make my own.[/QUOTE]co-sign

why dont you contact merc dealer? ive seen people retrofitting brabus fogs into their mercs so im sure they are available for sales

diy. i know someone who has the authentic brabus quad foggs and he has replaced them 3 times because of stone chips that shatter the lenses. he just recently fitted some run of the mill circle fogs in there. not to mention that those brabus ones are in the 2 grand neighborhood.

I've liked the R class dual foglights since i've seen them. I've considered retroing them onto my M.

[IMG]http://4x4v.ru/uploads/posts/2011-02/1298801951_mercedes-benz-r-class-2011_630_3.jpg[/IMG]

I'm with the majority ........go custom

[QUOTE=truepaint;390780]im thinking those may be too big[/QUOTE]

I have those collecting dust on my workbench. They're too big.... and heavy as a mofo too.

brabus or custom, depending on ap.

custom it is....might take a while. Was hoping for a good dual fog to start with

[url]http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=270648798591&viewitem=&sspagename=STRK%3AMEWAX%3AIT#ht_2264wt_939[/url]
:shrug:

Honestly, I would go quad fog projectors because they just look so much more VIP-ish *if I may*. Anything else would just look cheap IMO. And like a lot of people have told me "Do it right the first time".

You can try some E46 M3 fog covers example: Hamann.....or custom fiberglass like some others have stated. Mine are custom from an Alfa Romeo....updates on what I have been planning to come soon on the Infiniti/Nissan sub-forum.

Custom baby!!! Only way to go... I Retro'ed the E-Class Dual Fogs onto my R-Class... 
[IMG]http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2533/5774427902_b709c44983_b.jpg[/IMG]

[QUOTE=rodneyc77;391325][IMG]http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2533/5774427902_b709c44983_b.jpg[/IMG][/QUOTE]

[IMG]http://www.drivethecars.net/images/Brabus-Mercedes-Benz_R-Class_2006_photo_05.jpg[/IMG]

brabus > custom (imo)

^They don't have an application for the 08.  Switching to a 06 bumper on an 08 is a downgrade

[QUOTE=widebody_Q;391486]^They don't have an application for the 08.  Switching to a 06 bumper on an 08 is a downgrade[/QUOTE]

Yea I actually prefer the OEM bumper with twin fogs over the Brabus.. maybe I'm just getting old... haha

Exactly... I tried to get the Brabus for it but they didn't have an application for the '08 which already has the AMG bumper as a standard option. Brabus tried to replicate the AMG bumper with the add-on lip. I also felt that the Brabus quad fogs lacked detail and are a smaller diameter.  Overall, I'm very pleased with the way the R looks with these OEM quad fogs with the chrome rings...

[QUOTE=widebody_Q;391486]^They don't have an application for the 08. Switching to a 06 bumper on an 08 is a downgrade[/QUOTE]
 
downgrade to who? i'd swap the bumper for access to the lip and fogs (plus the fact to say it's brabus) in a heartbeat.
 
[QUOTE=rodneyc77;391576]Exactly... I tried to get the Brabus for it but they didn't have an application for the '08 which already has the AMG bumper as a standard option. Brabus tried to replicate the AMG bumper with the add-on lip. I also felt that the Brabus quad fogs lacked detail and are a smaller diameter. Overall, I'm very pleased with the way the R looks with these OEM quad fogs with the chrome rings...[/QUOTE]
 
brabus (other than specialty models) tends to enhance the original styling cues while amg typically tries to create a new, more agressive look buy changing parts completely. it's not a matter of replicating, it's just a different approach at design.

In this case... I tend to disagree... The AMG bumper on this model looks much better than the add-on lip and over simplified quad fogs with the plain insert. I mean it was cool that they angled the fogs to flow with the headlights, but still wasn't feeling it. The AMG bumper is just a clean and more refined bumper and hangs lower than the 06-07 bumper with the brabus lip... Just my taste now... I'm not into the whole seams thing of a lip kit...

i'm personally not a fan of the catfish mouth amg bumpers of the period and pretty much always prefer the base. i disagree that the amg is the "clean and more refined" of the two in it's basic form, but to each their own. once you add the accent pieces it's not really a fair comparison since one remains original and the other has pieces added on, so obviously the single piece will be cleaner than multiple pieces, but as far as integrated modification no one does it better than brabus; details true to original form.

[QUOTE=rodneyc77;391576]Exactly... I tried to get the Brabus for it but they didn't have an application for the '08 which already has the AMG bumper as a standard option. Brabus tried to replicate the AMG bumper with the add-on lip. I also felt that the Brabus quad fogs lacked detail and are a smaller diameter.  Overall, I'm very pleased with the way the R looks with these OEM quad fogs with the chrome rings...[/QUOTE]

BTW- Are the chrome rings factory or did you source them elsewhere?

^Factory... 
 
 
Mike - Agree with you... that's why I said that I don't like their (brabus) execution in this step child "Class" of MB... I like the mean catfish mouth more than Brabus Smilie face... :innoutrofl2: Like you said to each their own big homie... 
 
Quads are the sh!t... I'm like an airplane landing through the streets of NYC... Potholes spotted 50 ft away.... lol

Likes this :biggthumpup:
 
[QUOTE=rodneyc77;391638] 
Quads are the sh!t... I'm like an airplane landing through the streets of NYC... Potholes spotted 50 ft away.... lol[/QUOTE]

since we are talking about this here. I would like to know if anyone have any details as to making something for a 2nd gen GS bumper with out modding the existing holes?
?

artisan spirits makes a nice piece, or you could always come get some custom work done.

[QUOTE=OG;391714]artisan spirits makes a nice piece, or you could always come get some custom work done.[/QUOTE]

do you know how much that roughly runs?

EDIT* i just saw this and i think i am in love!

[img]http://kyoei-usa.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/artisan_spirits_sport_spec_GS300_GS400_GS430_aristo.jpg[/img]

which?

Looking to purchase the Mode Parfume ones

[IMG]http://blowdesign.co.jp/parts/images/light/06/09.jpg[/IMG]

rodney how much were the foglights?

Expensive... and a real pain to get the right pieces from a MB dealer... even with a Vin #... It was over $100 per each fog plus the misc grill and trim pieces.

Ouch >.<
Taht's MB for you though :shrug:

This aint Kansas anymore... :innoutrofl2:

[QUOTE=OG;391443]brabus > custom (imo)[/QUOTE]

YES

well like everyone says "you gotta pay to play" :shrug:

i really like those artisan but damn 700 bux i can spend that on other shit i really need or want more

I'm probably gonna go w/ the merc. factory or brabus style and do a custom fit, should be fun cutting up my bumper again :pat: LOL!

Buy a set of foglights twice.  Bingo.

[QUOTE=rodneyc77;391576]Exactly... I tried to get the Brabus for it but they didn't have an application for the '08 which already has the AMG bumper as a standard option. Brabus tried to replicate the AMG bumper with the add-on lip. I also felt that the Brabus quad fogs lacked detail and are a smaller diameter.  Overall, I'm very pleased with the way the R looks with these OEM quad fogs with the chrome rings...[/QUOTE]
I like the way the dual foggs from the e look in the amg bumper better than brabus' set up...any lips out yet for the amg bumper?

[QUOTE=PANCAKES!;391819]Ouch >.<
Taht's MB for you though :shrug:[/QUOTE]
Taht's mb STEALERSHIPS for ya, lol =)

[QUOTE=PANCAKES!;392015]I'm probably gonna go w/ the merc. factory or brabus style and do a custom fit, should be fun cutting up my bumper again :pat: LOL![/QUOTE]
right on,  good luck with the proj...:biggthumpup:

Damn these Brabus/MB foglights are harder to find than I thought :sad:

is it possible to just buy regular projectors and use them as fogs?

I would assume so

would that be over doing it tho?

not if you can get them for a good price!

i think you'd want to buy projector fogs to do a one off set up. most, if not all, headlight projectors aren't sealed. check these out:
 
[IMG]http://www.theretrofitsource.com/images/products/hid-projectors/BlazerFogLightProjectors3l.jpg[/IMG]
 
at $45/pair the value is hard to beat (hit me up if you're interested). something more high end would be hella sealed projector fogs.

[QUOTE=OG;392406]i think you'd want to buy projector fogs to do a one off set up. most, if not all, headlight projectors aren't sealed. check these out:
 
[IMG]http://www.theretrofitsource.com/images/products/hid-projectors/BlazerFogLightProjectors3l.jpg[/IMG]
 
at $45/pair the value is hard to beat (hit me up if you're interested). something more high end would be hella sealed projector fogs.[/QUOTE]

Do they have trim rings available for these as well?

[QUOTE=jzz30tt;392611]Do they have trim rings available for these as well?[/QUOTE]

[url]http://www.empirechromeshop.com/p-1371-kenworth-chrome-plastic-clock-trim-without-visor-single.aspx[/url]

[IMG]http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y37/normandie/010.jpg[/IMG]

Here's a pic of the blazer fogs with chrome trim that I was working on before I found the JP foglights for my van.

OG do the fogs come with brackets? or would i need to make custom ones? and what are the dimensions?

[QUOTE=VIPanda;392643]OG do the fogs come with brackets? or would i need to make custom ones? and what are the dimensions?[/QUOTE]
 
[URL]http://www.theretrofitsource.com/product_info.php?products_id=249&osCsid=p0u16nq8l46cfsuias0r83a0htho8oj6[/URL]

Here I am, widening my horizons OG... lol...

here is a pic of a bracket i found..
[IMG]http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v711/shawnthemonster/p1-46.jpg[/IMG]

nice find, details please...
[QUOTE=shawnthemonster;392796]here is a pic of a bracket i found..
[IMG]http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v711/shawnthemonster/p1-46.jpg[/IMG][/QUOTE]

Here is half of the Artisan 2GS quad fog kit

[IMG]http://kyoei-usa.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/Artisan-Aristo-5-500x375.jpg[/IMG]

[QUOTE=shawnthemonster;392796]here is a pic of a bracket i found..
[IMG]http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v711/shawnthemonster/p1-46.jpg[/IMG][/QUOTE]

Honestly... those brackets right there looks like it can be custom made cheap. You see the back piece of it looks like a flat square metal bracket with a hole and then drill your mount holes. As for the 2 tubular sleeve looking parts it looks like you can weld 2 tubes onto the flat mounts and it would look like that bracket. Just saying.


Just an example picture of making the back plate.
[img]http://www.ta-deti.de/ta/skidplate/alp_PLATE4.jpg[/img]

it would look sick, why not buy the brabus one and just hack it off?

^^^sssa two thousand dollar hack job

[QUOTE=OG;392406]i think you'd want to buy projector fogs to do a one off set up. most, if not all, headlight projectors aren't sealed. check these out:
 
[IMG]http://www.theretrofitsource.com/images/products/hid-projectors/BlazerFogLightProjectors3l.jpg[/IMG]
 
at $45/pair the value is hard to beat (hit me up if you're interested). something more high end would be hella sealed projector fogs.[/QUOTE]

so my next question is... would it be possible to retro these into some OEM gs300 fog light housings? like 2 in each housing with the chrome trim and a black back ground? if so LMK i think we found my next project for the car if you are down for it?

I'm really digging 4 of these:

[img]http://img.auctiva.com/imgdata/1/3/3/3/6/2/9/webimg/463863000_o.jpg[/img]

Uses these trim rings:

[img]http://img.autosdepo.com/ItemPhotos/PDP53727755/PDP53727755.jpg[/img]

would be sick if you could fit em. set it off with quad oval exhaust tips.

So my shop is working on this 3rd gen GS and they retroed some LEDs from a newed Eclass into this car. what you guys think of this over the quad fogs? i must say this doesnt look bad at all

[IMG]http://i52.tinypic.com/2mot72p.jpg[/IMG]

I like it but at some point it becomes to trendy

Out here we have civics, altimas, and everything else rockin those euro LED bars
Dope! but not so much when you see it on everything and when cats are jus throwing them on w/ no since of style or taste

Reminds me of the neon light fazes 
:shrug:


The LED bars on some 430s and GSs I see in Japan are dope but they incorporated much better

the easy things to do or replicate get trendy and overdone. thats why harder one off customs are always gangsta.

[QUOTE=PANCAKES!;394346]I like it but at some point it becomes to trendy
 
Out here we have civics, altimas, and everything else rockin those euro LED bars
Dope! but not so much when you see it on everything and when cats are jus throwing them on w/ no since of style or taste
 
Reminds me of the neon light fazes 
:shrug:
 
 
The LED bars on some 430s and GSs I see in Japan are dope but they incorporated much better[/QUOTE]
 
X1000 :pat: Same reason why I didn't do the LED strip, eventhough I know I would have executed it well...

anything can look good when executed properly. pretty much the same as every other aesthetic mod; the overall look determines success, not the individual detail. led drls look good in a certain type of bumper on a car with a certain look and certain lines. it's not for everything. that 3gs looks lame to me.

not feeling the 3gs..then again, i dont like that L shaped LED on the benz either.  id rather go with the porsche drl ones..but yea its definately becoming trendy but again, anything can look good when executed properly..if youre familiar with the job design bumper, there is a verticle line that seperates an opening and i was going to delete that and put LED instead, but in the end i knew it would clash with my foglights.  this post is all over the place, but i think that one liberty 3gs that moved to hawaii and wrapped his car matte white uses the same e class led fogs

yea i opted to skip on these LEDS. i saw a 04??? TL this morning with BLUE LEDS in his bumper and one strip across the top of the license plate shit was ugly!

honestly LED's are starting to get overrated. People need to start stepping outside of the box and thinking up something new. I guess projector fogs are the way to go, which i'm planning on doing over the summer, its just that i don't know anything about electrics... LOL

what you guys think of this.. color matched bezels coming with chrome rings

[img] http://a4.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc6/252002_563798228498_182702196_31411255_7324779_n.jpg[/img]

Pretty dope, in the new VIPstyle mag they do a feature on this company called 
Proshop re-make
[url]http://www.re-make.org/[/url]

which sells LED bar kits! 

I can dig it! :biggthumpup:

[IMG]http://i179.photobucket.com/albums/w308/o2bbabe/HPIM0043.jpg[/IMG]
[IMG]http://i179.photobucket.com/albums/w308/o2bbabe/HPIM0042.jpg[/IMG]

^ good find, i was wondering where they were finding this at.
 
edit: that white ls430 is sick.

[QUOTE=BAHC;402893]^ good find, i was wondering where they were finding this at.
 
edit: that white ls430 is sick.[/QUOTE]
 
QFT....In that bumper, led strips look damn good!

Made some progress but Ive thought about it more and im going to change it up

proof of concept anyway

[IMG]http://i197.photobucket.com/albums/aa207/truepaint/c18b82c8.jpg[/IMG]

[IMG]http://i197.photobucket.com/albums/aa207/truepaint/b7c6f6c2.jpg[/IMG]

Lookin good! What bezel is that?

oem corolla fog light lens+housing and blazer projectors

Here's mine. They are OEM fogs from an SUV in Japan that is very similar to the Fabulous fog kit. They match my headlights.
 
[IMG]http://i246.photobucket.com/albums/gg111/szell001/Kit%20flow/DSC_0937.jpg[/IMG]

[QUOTE=whitej47;414271]Here's mine. They are OEM fogs from an SUV in Japan that is very similar to the Fabulous fog kit. They match my headlights.
 
[IMG]http://i246.photobucket.com/albums/gg111/szell001/Kit%20flow/DSC_0937.jpg[/IMG][/QUOTE]

which SUV that looks good!

yes that does look sick!

They are from the Toyota Land Cruiser.  They have a similar shape to the Fabulous fogs which were originally molded around the kit.  I took a chance on buying these form Japan, sight-unseen, and I think the outcome was awesome.  The housing is a clay type material that is sandable so I took a little bit off of each and they fit pretty well.

[QUOTE=whitej47;415361]They are from the Toyota Land Cruiser.  They have a similar shape to the Fabulous fogs which were originally molded around the kit.  I took a chance on buying these form Japan, sight-unseen, and I think the outcome was awesome.  The housing is a clay type material that is sandable so I took a little bit off of each and they fit pretty well.[/QUOTE]

man i saw some on ebay, but those looked a bit oversized for the hole. I know a guy who have them locally and he tried to do the retro but the bezel they came with were way to big once he had it installed. But thanks!