Front fog cutout size?
White&Nerdy
Senior Wagonist
(Yeah, I'm having a slow day and thinking about my car way too much 
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So according to one of the sticky threads, all wagons have cutouts in the front bumpers for fog lights, like this:
Does anyone know the size of these cutouts? I'm pondering a more elegant installation of my Hella 530s. If they'll fit relatively well, I'll cut my bumper plastic and mount them in the stock location. Though I like my current rally car look I'd rather give them a little more protection. But I don't want to cut if it's not going to fit well. I may figure out a way to mount them in the grill rather than in front of it like I do now.
If it helps, my fogs are 7.38" wide, 3.50" tall, and 2.94" deep. The "base to top" measurement (I presume from the edge of the light to the top end of the bracket) is 4.50".
If they fit entirely behind the plastic, I may even rig up some kind of clear plastic cover across the entire opening to further protect them from the elements.
)So according to one of the sticky threads, all wagons have cutouts in the front bumpers for fog lights, like this:
Does anyone know the size of these cutouts? I'm pondering a more elegant installation of my Hella 530s. If they'll fit relatively well, I'll cut my bumper plastic and mount them in the stock location. Though I like my current rally car look I'd rather give them a little more protection. But I don't want to cut if it's not going to fit well. I may figure out a way to mount them in the grill rather than in front of it like I do now.
If it helps, my fogs are 7.38" wide, 3.50" tall, and 2.94" deep. The "base to top" measurement (I presume from the edge of the light to the top end of the bracket) is 4.50".
If they fit entirely behind the plastic, I may even rig up some kind of clear plastic cover across the entire opening to further protect them from the elements.
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I posted the Stanley part number in that same thread. You might be able to look that one up to get the dimensions.
I suppose I could just pull my front bumper and measure it for myself. And being plastic, if the stock cutout isn't the right size, maybe I can cut the right size for my lights. Just have to see how much of a PITA it would be.
But while it was off, I looked at the cutouts for factory fogs. Yes, I used the plural - there are actually two. One is for the Stanley set shown on Haydz's car. The other is labelled Bosch. Must be for some other type of factory fog. The neat thing is that the Bosch cutout will be a PERFECT match for my Hella 530s! The dimensions are almost exactly the same. Unfortunately for the rest of the world, Hella discontinued the 530 a while back, so you can't get them anymore. Won't help anyone else, I'm afraid.
Anyway, when I have more time I'm hopeful that I can rig up some kind of mounting bracket - maybe a couple of small pieces of angle iron on the back side of the bumper - carefully cut some holes and have mad tyte JDM y0 fogs. :twisted:
I made the cutouts using the Bosch pattern. Installed my Hellas like I described, but didn't have enough space behind the bumper to make them fit like I wanted, with a bracket behind the bumper itself and such. Tried bolting them to the bumper itself and ended up with this:
I hated the bug-eye look, so I took them off. Then I found some cheap amber fogs at the local parts store that had the mounting bolt further forward, moving the entire unit back a bit.
Done! OK, so the holes in the bumper, while perfect for the Hellas, are now too big for what I got, I'm kind of stuck with them. Oh well.
The current lights are bolted directly through holes I drilled in the bumper, no brackets at all. The brackets I tried with the Hellas were just short pieces of angle iron. Would've worked fine if I'd had enough clearance behind. I do have pics somewhere, but don't know if I bothered posting them because that idea didn't work.
I know this is an old thread, but ive been wondering about those ek foglights. Good thing I searched and found your post. Im definitely going with these fogs.
It fits nicely, kinda siamese right now, but with a little more manipulation anything is possible.