dunno...i might give it another try...i've done most of my lighting mods already but couldn't get the HID bulbs to fit in the fogs....maximka was able to fit his HIDs into his fogs with no problems


btw, just changed out my piaa extreme in my city lights for VLEDs...and the LVEDs look much much better

 

Bay Area Folks: Any done this mod in the bay area wanna show a guy how to change the city lights????? I have the LEDs already, just can't get my hands in there...

Lee

 

I'm looking to swap out my fog and parking lights as well, but I'm mostly concerned with everyone mentioning how the bulbs don't seem to fit snugly or worrying about road vibration popping them out.

What bulbs will fit in securely for sure?

 

the bulbs look like they will fit securely, but the city light socket on the g37 has four prongs that stick out and keep the leds from seating properly. the stock citylight bulbs are rounded at the bottom and slide all the way in, where as the leds are a bit more squared off and butt up against the socket. if i was contemplating getting the dremel out and either grinding the prongs down or rounding out the bottom of the leds.

 

JUST FYI for everyone, Pep Boys is offering a 15 dollar rebate on the H1 Sylvania Silverstar Bulbs. So 37.99-15.00= 22.99. Rebate runs through January.


I had a hell of a time putting these suckers in though, and honestly noticed only minimal difference. I'm going to have to take my car into the dealer too, because I ended up bending the clip that holds the bulb in wrong. Now it will not hold the bulb in completely tight and if it were to be turned on it would bounce around like crazy. Hope they can do something to help me out. Really frustrates me how difficult they have made something that should be so easy to do like swap out bulbs. If a headlight bulb goes out you need to take your car to the dealer??? Gotten a little ridiculous.

I have no idea how to swap out the parking light, so I'll ask them to do those while they are at it.

Just an FYI for those looking to do this mod.

 

But, aren't these headlight bulbs? If you replace the foglights with them, won't you end up with two sets of headlights?

 

our fogs use H1 bulbs....tiny little bulbs
H1



D2S bulbs for headlights

 

Right, but the H1 bulbs in our fog lights are designed as auxiliary bulbs. The SilverStars he originally mentioned are designed as headlight bulbs.

 

what makes you think they are headlight bulbs? i know of no car that uses h1's as headlight bulbs.

 

The Silverstars are the same wattage (55w) as our factory bulb and honestly after I installed them I couldn't tell a difference between these and our factory ones.

Comparing them side by side with the stock bulb they are the exact same size/look everything. The silverstars have a more blue tint to the actual bulb being the only difference.

 

Lots of cars use H1 for headlight bulbs. Try almost every GM HID vehicle for starters. In fact, Sylvania even says on the box and on their web site the H1 is a headlight bulb. There are other H1 bulbs which say they are auxiliary bulbs.

 

I sent my other one back, and decided to get 3200k H1 Bulbs, I paid $340 Shipped, if You guys want a good Deal let me know I know a guy that sells lots of Kaixen Stuff

Normal Kits (6000K etc) - $300 Shipped

Bulbs - $150

I have bought 3 sets for all my cars, all running strong and very good Korean Quality! KAIXEN

 

Could someone be a gentleman and take a photo of this elusive bolt.

Many many thanks..

 

any one in socal wanna show where u take off the bulb? i wanna get the yellow ones! do u have to take off the radiator cover?

 

The elusive bolt is hardly elusive. Just pop open your hood and look at your air intake box. The bolt/screw is to the right of the box on the drivers side and to the left on the passengers side.