Disclaimer:If you mess up your fog lights and try to blame
it on me you are a ******* retard and should NOT be doing this in the first
place. With that said.....

So Yay..... yeah this is about the 5-6th pair I've done. I had a buyer
(the guy I sold my fogs to) request me to Yellow his fogs. So here's
a quickie for all you kidlets on what to do. These aren't as good as
the real things, but will fool most people, and save you 1-300$ in
the process.



.....

After you remove your foglights, turn on your oven to 200f (Spyder
reminded me the exact temp, thanks dude!) Bake for Approx 10-15
minutes, remove carefully. These are for a few seconds to hot to
touch. Take a flat Screwdriver and at either end pry up gently. The
sealer that keeps the lenses in should be soft enough that they
pop right off.




Next, tape off your top, side, and bottom chunks of your reflector,
a sharp exacto knife helps worlds, I unfortunately only have dull 1's
but whatever. next time I guess. Be very careful on how hard you
press your masking tape. The fake chrome that they use is old, and
easily flakes off onto the tape when removed. Overlap the tape,
then run your finger down the lengths with slight pressure. This will
guarantee that the tape will not pry up the chrome, but completely
covers the areas you do not want painted. Then with 220 grit sand
paper lightly scuff the area you are painting. This will ensure a tight
bond with the primer later on.





Next set them down on a piece of newspaper, cut a square smaller
than the fog light housing out and push the foglights through that
hole. It will make it so you don't have some weird large hole to tape
over. Tape of the edges of the newspaper onto the sides of the fogs
housing. At this point wipe out all the grit from the sanding with a
towel. If you don't do this your primer will not bond and your
painting will suck.




Take these outside in a well ventilated area with a low to no breeze
and even less dust. Grab your can of primer (I used Krylon White w/
my aircan to airbrush attachment) and spray the first coat. Let sit for
the recommended time. Spray another coat. Let sit, spray a third.
Two to three coats will make sure that your paint bonds nicely to the
housing.





Let sit for a good twenty minutes. Go get a beer, smoke a bowl,
or whatever it is you damned kids do to amuse yourselves now
a days. When you come back its time to spray paint. Take your
can (or airbrush in my case) and lightly coat the first layer of paint.
I am using OMFG its Yellow, by Krylon. Ok ok, its Fluorescent Yellow
for outdoor use. Gives you that nice blinding yellow that's sure to
be noticed. Again I applied three coats. More to come when the
paint dries!

 

Okay they've dried out a bit so let me continue......

Use light coats when spraying, when dried (20-30min or so)
peel back the tape lightly. If you layered the tape you can
twist it back a little and take off all the layers in one or two
pulls. Afterwards you have something that looks a lot like
this!







Here's how they look with the lenses back on.





Now, here's a few things to get them to look better, but I wasn't
really planning on doing (Sorry, but these aren't for me )


After priming, wetsanding will make these suckers smooth as a
strippers.... lie about wanting to attend college.... Use fine FINE
grits. PM me with questions.

When painting there are SEVERAL things you can do differently
and better. Use reflective paints, wetsand the paint, or if you
are doing it like me, you can (when finished painting) apply very
light coats of a chrome spray above the top layer of paint. This
will deaden the yellow and add an overall sheen to the paint.

Another good one to get these to really shine is to apply a top
coat of automotive clearcoat.


Now here's some things about these you should know!

These will not be as bright as all chrome fogs, you have just
painted off a good section of the reflector. These will be about
1.25x dimmer or more.

This is NOT permanent. The paint WILL flake eventually, and
here is why. The interior housing will get UP TO 250f ambient
temperature when the fogs are in use. Stupid filament bulbs.
The constant expansion and contraction will crack this, it will
need occasional retouches. There are very few ways around
this. Things you can do to help though are use high temp auto
paint, use high temp sealing agents over your top coat, or to
not do this at all, and buy the real JDM fogs. Support your local
Japanese Importer (see: Jd ).

USDM tight yo'

/thread

 

And your moment of zen.

Real JDM Fogs.



The fogs you can make in an afternoon.



Congrats Careet, you got some JDM(ish) fogs dude.

 

kewl write up, after reading this i kinda want to go to albersons lol jk. props on the write up tho

 

how do they shine at night compaired before and after? could u take a night foto with 1 jdm and 1 normal for a comparison? that would truely finish this write up then!

 

I dunno, I don't have a regular fog for comparison,
or a vehicle to run em on. Mines int 20k parts right
now.

 

Pics at night(with lights on)?

 

I would like some pictures on.. I was contemplating how to do this..