broken fog lights.
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broken fog lights.
Just a few questions, Both of my front fogs have the glass lense broken, one is just cracked and the otherhas the glass completely broken out andthe bulb is nowtotally exposed. I was wondering if this is a common thing due to rocks on the highway or was it someone vandalizing my vehicle.
Has anyone had to change both foglight assemblys? and if so how much shouldI expect to pay for the parts to fix it.
Should I cover the exposed bulb with something while driving?
Thanks guys for all the help!
Has anyone had to change both foglight assemblys? and if so how much shouldI expect to pay for the parts to fix it.
Should I cover the exposed bulb with something while driving?
Thanks guys for all the help!
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RE: broken fog lights.
Both fog lights are damaged and at the same time?! Yea, I'd put vandalism at a 90% chance.
Last fall I was on my way home from work when we had some flooding. I drove through about a foot+ of water and stupid me didn't realize I had my fogs on. Sure enough, several seconds later my dash lights up like the car is in catastrophic failure... I blew the bulbs. The fog light housing wasn't damaged at all really, just a bunch of minor scratches on the reflective surface. I think that means they're fairly tough so vandalism sounds like a reasonable conclusion.
When I changed the bulbs, the assemblies came out quite easily. No instructions needed, just some low-level reasoning. The dealership only sells the complete housings for about $80/each so that's what it will cost you. Definitely do it yourself.
By the way, I have a favor to ask. Check out this post I made a few days back:
https://www.audiforums.com/m_471629/.../tm.htm#471629
If you have a match, I would really appreciate you selling me the adjustment screws you salvage from the old housings when you replace them with new ones. I don't want to buy a whole new housing just for this thing. Even if it costs me $10, at least it's not $80!
Last fall I was on my way home from work when we had some flooding. I drove through about a foot+ of water and stupid me didn't realize I had my fogs on. Sure enough, several seconds later my dash lights up like the car is in catastrophic failure... I blew the bulbs. The fog light housing wasn't damaged at all really, just a bunch of minor scratches on the reflective surface. I think that means they're fairly tough so vandalism sounds like a reasonable conclusion.
When I changed the bulbs, the assemblies came out quite easily. No instructions needed, just some low-level reasoning. The dealership only sells the complete housings for about $80/each so that's what it will cost you. Definitely do it yourself.
By the way, I have a favor to ask. Check out this post I made a few days back:
https://www.audiforums.com/m_471629/.../tm.htm#471629
If you have a match, I would really appreciate you selling me the adjustment screws you salvage from the old housings when you replace them with new ones. I don't want to buy a whole new housing just for this thing. Even if it costs me $10, at least it's not $80!
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RE: broken fog lights.
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Both fog lights are damaged and at the same time?! Yea, I'd put vandalism at a 90% chance.
Last fall I was on my way home from work when we had some flooding. I drove through about a foot+ of water and stupid me didn't realize I had my fogs on. Sure enough, several seconds later my dash lights up like the car is in catastrophic failure... I blew the bulbs. The fog light housing wasn't damaged at all really, just a bunch of minor scratches on the reflective surface. I think that means they're fairly tough so vandalism sounds like a reasonable conclusion.
When I changed the bulbs, the assemblies came out quite easily. No instructions needed, just some low-level reasoning. The dealership only sells the complete housings for about $80/each so that's what it will cost you. Definitely do it yourself.
By the way, I have a favor to ask. Check out this post I made a few days back:
https://www.audiforums.com/m_471629/.../tm.htm#471629
If you have a match, I would really appreciate you selling me the adjustment screws you salvage from the old housings when you replace them with new ones. I don't want to buy a whole new housing just for this thing. Even if it costs me $10, at least it's not $80!
Both fog lights are damaged and at the same time?! Yea, I'd put vandalism at a 90% chance.
Last fall I was on my way home from work when we had some flooding. I drove through about a foot+ of water and stupid me didn't realize I had my fogs on. Sure enough, several seconds later my dash lights up like the car is in catastrophic failure... I blew the bulbs. The fog light housing wasn't damaged at all really, just a bunch of minor scratches on the reflective surface. I think that means they're fairly tough so vandalism sounds like a reasonable conclusion.
When I changed the bulbs, the assemblies came out quite easily. No instructions needed, just some low-level reasoning. The dealership only sells the complete housings for about $80/each so that's what it will cost you. Definitely do it yourself.
By the way, I have a favor to ask. Check out this post I made a few days back:
https://www.audiforums.com/m_471629/.../tm.htm#471629
If you have a match, I would really appreciate you selling me the adjustment screws you salvage from the old housings when you replace them with new ones. I don't want to buy a whole new housing just for this thing. Even if it costs me $10, at least it's not $80!
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