Hey Guys - Who Likes the 2nd Gen Fog Light Set-Up?
10-29-13, 09:51 AM
#16
Hmmm, yea that would work; I'm sure there are many ways to do this. I don't think the "plug" is gonna pop out though since I am filling and blending into the surface of the bumper. If I smack something hard enough for them to pop out - I prob. have bigger issues at that point...
You may get away with it as your in CA for a few weeks, but something as simple as vibrations will crack the paint and the bondo from the bumper.
You should've went to a junkyard, bought any bumper with flat surfaces and cut out pieces and shape them with a heat gun - then plastic weld the two pieces together.
Bondo isn't made for making body panels, but to fill small inconsistencies or gaps.
Either way, good luck with this...
BTW; this here is a proper step by step on how to do this and make it permanent;
http://forums.vwvortex.com/showthrea...-weld-a-bumper
10-29-13, 03:36 PM
#19
I don't want to see any more childish bickering on this thread. From Anyone. Fair warning to all.
Last edited by PureDrifter; 10-29-13 at 03:42 PM.
10-29-13, 05:20 PM
#20
Lead Lap
I'm not understanding the benefit of deleting the fog lights. I drove to work early this morning in total darkness in a driving rainstorm and found the fog lights to be extremely useful. I refinished the fog light lenses a few weeks ago with a Sylvania lens restoration kit at the same time I did the headlight lenses and they are now as good as new.
11-02-13, 11:19 PM
#24
This.
It looks pretty clean, though I can't help but imagine the fog lights there...
Is there a way you could adapt that technique to essentially make "plugs" for the factory fog lights? Essentially, the old fog light is "discarded" and then replaced by a plug made of body filler or something. I'm thinking of running twin "dual projectors" for fog lights.
It looks pretty clean, though I can't help but imagine the fog lights there...
Is there a way you could adapt that technique to essentially make "plugs" for the factory fog lights? Essentially, the old fog light is "discarded" and then replaced by a plug made of body filler or something. I'm thinking of running twin "dual projectors" for fog lights.
11-03-13, 01:54 AM
#27
the foglights on our cars are not useless. you will know this once you do the "foglight mod" which consists of removing the glare shield to further enhance the light output (i know some people might have mixed opinions about the mod because of the glare but heck, my foglights are brighter than my low beams)! if anything, my low beams are more useless than my foglights. All the cars I've had so far all had foglights.. I feel it's a necessity especially for a luxury vehicle. It looks nice at night once the low beam and foglights are matched too.
+1 for creativity, but really... no effectiveness here except for aesthetics.
+1 for creativity, but really... no effectiveness here except for aesthetics.
Last edited by xtremex626; 11-03-13 at 01:58 AM.
11-03-13, 07:08 AM
#29
the foglights on our cars are not useless. you will know this once you do the "foglight mod" which consists of removing the glare shield to further enhance the light output (i know some people might have mixed opinions about the mod because of the glare but heck, my foglights are brighter than my low beams)! if anything, my low beams are more useless than my foglights. All the cars I've had so far all had foglights.. I feel it's a necessity especially for a luxury vehicle. It looks nice at night once the low beam and foglights are matched too.
+1 for creativity, but really... no effectiveness here except for aesthetics.
+1 for creativity, but really... no effectiveness here except for aesthetics.
