All done.
In my humble opinion, this entire process is needlessly and painfully complex.
I can only imagine that the designers were paid by the hour as the entire brake duct area is absurdly complex.
Anyway, I began by lifting the car, putting her on jackstands, removing the front wheels and loosening enough hardware (three bolts and three screws per side, as it turns out) to be able to move the plastic fender liners away...
Then I removed the cooling panel in front of the rad (not stock) to expose the relay panel area. You're looking for a four prong green connector that is tied up to the wiring harness...
...which gets connected to a relay and bolted next to it's brothers...
Next, the lower headlight beauty panels were removed and the bumper cover was unbolted...
Here's all the hardware I had to remove to pull the cap...
And finally, the brake ducts are exposed.
Here is where the complexity begins.
The stock, unlit duct is composed of three sections. The OEM fog lamp replicates the first two sections, with the main bracket altered to accept a light housing.
This main bracket is bolted to the bumper reinforcement bar with two 6mm bolts...
At the rear of this first duct section is a short intermediate piece, held on with one 4 mm bolt and two clips. I found it simpler to remove this center section before attempting to weasel the duct/bracket out.
Once you see this area, it's actually completely self-explanatory how you should proceed.
The fog light is installed exactly as the open duct was and the center piece replaced after the light is in.
Both sides done...
The wiring for the lights is run through into the engine bay through the same hole as the main headlights and turn signals and you can use the same retaining clips to hold the wires out of harm's way. On either side of the bay, in the gaggle of connectors for the headlights, etc. are unused two pin connectors for the fogs.
At this point, with everything assembled, I tested the fogs to make sure they worked before the nose cap was reinstalled.
They did, and I buttoned everything back up...
Note:
I had just removed the bumper cap a few weeks ago to replace a tweaked support bracket. At that time I ran a die or tap through all the studs and capture nuts and used anti-seize on all the hardware.
This time, removing the cover was simple and painless but if your cover hasn't been off in a while, be prepared for a fight.
Because my hardware cooperated and I was familiar with the removal process, installing the new lights took just under 1 1/2 hours.
YMMV.
Tonight when it's dark I'll get to see whether this was worth the effort.
I hope so...
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