Foglight housing is burning hot after a drive, is this normal?
08-05-07, 01:22 AM
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Foglight housing is burning hot after a drive, is this normal?
Last night I drove about 2 hours with the foglights on (totally stock). When I got home I touched the foglight housing/cover and its was burning hot, too hot to touch for more than 2 seconds. Is this normal?
Strange since the HID housing is only slightly warm after the drive.
Strange since the HID housing is only slightly warm after the drive.
08-05-07, 08:04 AM
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HID generates less heat than tungsten bulb, so of course it's not as hot. Fog light housing is smaller than headlight's, so it can get pretty hot after 2 hours, plus there is more air moving over the headlights to cool them.
08-05-07, 02:50 PM
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Yea its normal. I started a thread on this a while back when I changed my fog lights. I thought it was due to the new bulbs, but after putting one of the stock ones back in and leaving it on for a little while I found that it did the same. So yea, its perfectly normal. They run really hot.
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