The new bumper I am looking at doesn't have any provisions for the factory fog lights. What fog lights are there that are street legal and still useful? I can't seem to find any.

 

Street legal? Regulations say that they should be D.O.T. approved.
Useful? Fogs don't have to be super bright. Your average "wallyworld" 55 watt Raodburners will work just fine.

 

how about a pair of Rigid Dually's (not the D2's) with the spot focus lenses?

would those be focused enough and low enough to not annoy anyone in the other lane or in front of me?

matthew

 

I have hella 500ff's they're great you can use the factory switch with them & have better light don't break the bank either

 

Imo, for lighting you can go with hella and have a great light with not much outlay of coin. They take hid retro kits very well. I'm running a pair of 500 driving lights with 55 w 4300k his in them and they are bright and have a great beam pattern. Total cost was about 150.00.

For fog light, I would get the 500 fog beam, not the ff series. The fog is a true fog beam, the ff is a hybrid beam that does neither driving or fog as good as the full beam versions.

I was looking at changing out my lights but as far as I'm concerned, with hid kits in them hella 500 are just as good for my useage without breaking the bank.

 

they do make the rigid duallys with an amber lens

you could do a pair of the duallys for $200

matthew

 

I'm not sure about led for fog, I think their beam pattern is for spot lights. The Hella are 76 bucks a pair.

 

I love my Hella 500! I would agree the the 500FF aren't the best for fog lights or driving lights but get the job done. I've tried the amber/yellow lens on fog lights and they absorb a lot of the light output however I will say that the amber light does help in the rain, snow, and fog. I had a pair of cheap fog lights on my XJ about 10 years ago that had an ion coating which did the same thing as the amber lens but without reducing the output of the lights. I think PIAA makes some with a simmilar type of coating. But I still would go with the Hella 500 series lights because I feel you get the best bang for your buck with them.

 

you can buy yellow hella fogs. Work like the piaas

 

I have seen the yellow hella's, jsut haven't used them. I do agree with you that LED's are not a good route to go with for use as a fog light. A couple of months back my team was doing some training with flashbangs at work in the dark and had a real eye opening experiance. some of the team was running LED lights and some were running xexon/halogen lights on their weapons. The LED lights just didn't cut through the smoke and dust kicked up bu the flashbangs, it was kind of like kicking on your high beems in a bad snow storm and getting all the reflected light back in your face. The xexon/ halogen lights however cut through the smoke and dust very well. I would have to say that fog, snow. or rain would probably act the same as the smoke and dust so I would think that anyone running LEDs for foglghts would be disapointed in the results.