How do you change bulbs and has anyone tried fitting hids to the fog log

 

Also what bulbs do I need for main beam and full beam Im pretty sure main beam is h4

 

Remove the screw holding the cover, (there are two lugs at the bottom) and remove, remove the two screws from the actual light unit itself (Not the one at the top corner as this is an adjustment screw) The bulbs are H3, 55W. Not sure about the HID but you need to be very careful if it puts extra demand on the old wiring!

Martin

 

So is the h3 the fog light bulb what about main/full beam

 

Yes fog lights are H3! Main beam is H4!

Martin

 

The main headlight is a H4, with BOTH dip and mainbeam, but the INNER post section is a H3 again.
The HID can be fitted to the fog lights, but it needs the rear of the housing cutting out as it simply is not deep enough to accommodate the extra length/bulk of the HID bulb.
Up to you but a lot of money to spend on something so rarely used, I have fitted some Ring Aurora day running lights in place of my fog lights, so the car can be seen easier in the daytime.
tabetha

 

I've got to agree there. They are a lot of money for not a lot of point. If you put HID bulbs in the fog lamps, all you will do is blind yourself in the fog as the light output will be so great, it will simply reflect the light back at you.

I have tried a couple of different types in mine, 130W ones were slightly too bright, in the end I settled for standard.

Also, good luck getting the bolts out. Most of them corrode into the captive inserts on the back of the bumper and snap when trying to remove them and are only available from Ford if I remember correctly. They are a VERY fine metric thread as well, so normal nuts are almost impossible to find. If you do get them apart, grease the thread before refitting to make it easier next time. A pair of new gaskets may not hurt either as the originals will be old and dry by now.

 

I am pretty sure they arn't fixed to the bumper so far as I can remember? There are two screws which hold the lens to the unit and the cover with a screw holds the light? If I am wrong I stand corrected but mine are certainly not fixed to the bumper!

Martin

 

The long bolts that pass through the ends of the light, visible after removing the surround/cover part of the bumper around the light, screw into captive nuts affixed to brackets bonded into the bumper, there's a few ways around this if they don't play ball.
The bolts are a BA fitting, ie electrical thread size, very close to metric but not the same.
tabetha

 

Yea your right guys bolts totally seized any bright ideas on how to remove them

 

You can always drill off the heads, but that still leaves the stud of the bolt seized in the captive bracket moulded in the bumper, a seriously crap design imo.
A problem with fixing by taking the whole bolt off by cutting etc is the captive part in the bumper is not that strong, but I have fixed this once before for someone else.
I drilled off the heads, cut the bolt flush with the bumper material, then centre punch in centre of old bolt and drill out progressively to about 12-13mm direct through the old captive nut bracket.
I then used some 2mm flat bar 1/2" wide to make 2 "U" shaped brackets that were then put into the slot where the light goes.
Before I bent the brackets to a "U" shape I had drilled them to take a 4mm rivnut where the new SS bolt would once again secure the light, the brackets themselves were secured simply by way of the holes 2 top 2 bottom that had been drilled into them, and self tappers used, it meant the light fitted 2mm further out, but you couldn't see any difference once done, with the surround on.
tabetha