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Old 03-30-24, 08:40 PM
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Default Morimoto 4 Banger HXB Foglights

Bought some to fit a 2020 RX and cut the plastic mounts down until they fit the TX premium Factory fog light location.

used a complete separate harness (14 gauge wire w 45 amp draw) with Relay and triggered the relay from the factory Foglight wiring harness. (22 gauge wire 4 watts draw)

Roughly 3-5x brighter in the factory location.

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Originally Posted by sheetmetalfab
Bought some to fit a 2020 RX and cut the plastic mounts down until they fit the TX premium Factory fog light location.

used a complete separate harness (14 gauge wire w 45 amp draw) with Relay and triggered the relay from the factory Foglight wiring harness. (22 gauge wire 4 watts draw)

Roughly 3-5x brighter in the factory location.
do you really think the OEM lights are lacking? I think they are really good. I turned the low beams up a crank or two inside the hood with a socket and am very pleased with output. only thing is the high beams seem to be a bit lacking. I think it is because my last cars had separate diodes for the high beams instead of having a flapper inside the projector housing...
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Originally Posted by mhoran89
do you really think the OEM lights are lacking? I think they are really good. I turned the low beams up a crank or two inside the hood with a socket and am very pleased with output. only thing is the high beams seem to be a bit lacking. I think it is because my last cars had separate diodes for the high beams instead of having a flapper inside the projector housing...
I’m coming from running diode dynamics SL1 high and low beams with Max level fogs on my wife’s previous honda pilot. (With a rigid hyperspot light bar triggered from the high beams)

yes the factory lighting on any vehicle will be lacking 😁

But.
I’m loving the 4bangers so far.
(can hardly tell the factory TX low beams are on)
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Originally Posted by sheetmetalfab
I’m coming from running diode dynamics SL1 high and low beams with Max level fogs on my wife’s previous honda pilot. (With a rigid hyperspot light bar triggered from the high beams)

yes the factory lighting on any vehicle will be lacking 😁

But.
I’m loving the 4bangers so far.
(can hardly tell the factory TX low beams are on)
can you post a pic at night and also one of the beam pattern? I would like to see what this looks like because I am interested to see if you are dazzling oncoming traffic much or not. thanks.
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Originally Posted by mhoran89
can you post a pic at night and also one of the beam pattern? I would like to see what this looks like because I am interested to see if you are dazzling oncoming traffic much or not. thanks.
i’ll try to get some pics tonight.

the cutoff is about 5” above the oem low beam cutoff at 50’ from the garage.



low beam top
low and fog below.

not all the way dark yet.

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Originally Posted by sheetmetalfab
yes the factory lighting on any vehicle will be lacking 😁
thats what i thought after 25+ years modding lights on cars, until i got my tesla w/ matrix headlights. coupled w/ the high beams, the projection, distance, and height is absolutely nasty. tree canopies have no secrets. over 100 individual LEDs per side.
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