Hello my fellow Honda-Tech"ers". So i have always wanted a rear fog light for my Crx and I never really wanted to spend 150+ bucks on the OEM ones because I am on a budget now that i am in college. So i decided to get some rear lights that my buddy had on his old Jeep Cherokee that he never used. After ten minutes of talking him into letting me have them I took them home and this is what they looked like.



I took off the brackets and got them ready for paint. I bought some KRYLON STAINED GLASS PAINT which i bought at a local Michael's Arts and Crafts. Pretty expensive for a little can. I payed 8.58 for it.



So got the light ready for paint. Masked it even though i don't think i needed to and then painted it. I let it dry for about 10 minutes. The finished product came out pretty good for my first time.



Once it dried i mounted it under my rear bumper. There are some holes already made in the bumper so that saved me a few minutes. I just grabbed a bolt and put a washer big enough in it so that the bolt would not fall through the hole. Once it was mounted it looked like this...



After connecting the rear fog light I turned it on and this is the finished product...







So what do you guys think? Pretty decent job for only 8 dollars and 58 cents? This is my first time doing anything like this so i think it came out somewhat decent. Let me know what you guys think.... Constructive criticism is always good.

If you guys have any questions about connecting it or something let me know. Ill be more than happy to show you how i connected it. Well thats my post for now. <U></U>

 

I say slap a hole in the rear bumper and mount it in the bumper. like the EF9 fog light. with a rubber seal it would look OEM

 

Yeah my buddy wants to do it as another project right now, But I'm not sure how to do it exactly. Ill search the board and see if i can come across anything. I know its not the real JDM way to do it, But so far ive been getting a thumbs up

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night shot??

 

it looks like you bolted a urnsignal from a jeep to your rear bumper. take it off.

 

whats the point tho? to help see when reversing at night?

 

I have to say, with the utmost respect it just doesn't look right. I'd take it off.

 

I would take EF_ST@TUS advice and mount it in the rear bumper i think that would look really clean

 

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Yeah thats what i really wanted to do, But since i didn't have time today i just did this. Ill eventually do it though.

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by welfarepc &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">whats the point tho? to help see when reversing at night?</TD></TR></TABLE>

No its a "FOG LIGHT" Where i live the fog gets pretty bad and i wouldn't want anyone to rear end me. Its gotten so bad on the freeway where people have to drive 45....

 

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I sprayed another coat on there so it looks darker/better/brighter. As soon as it gets dark i will take a picture of it and i will post it!!

 

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I sprayed another coat on there so it looks darker/better/brighter.</TD></TR></TABLE>


to me the original pics look like you sprayed very very very heavy coats in the first place. i would have done it differently. for instance, removing the screws before drowning that thing in paint.

then again, i have the proper OEM crx foglight....

 

Yeah i would have the same center piece as you except no one has them and if they do they don't want to sell them. I really would go OEM rather than this type of rigged stuff Ha!l <TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by STREETWERKZ &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">


to me the original pics look like you sprayed very very very heavy coats in the first place. i would have done it differently. for instance, removing the screws before drowning that thing in paint.

then again, i have the proper OEM crx foglight....

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i dont think your light looks too bad as far as style and placement goes. its just the heavy coats of paint that i noticed.

 

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I zoomed in pretty damn close so it looks like that. It actually came out pretty good after the second coat. Ill take a picture right now of it at night....

 

yeah well i guess id figure someone would see your tail lights before they saw a tiny red light near your muffler....

 

Here's a much better shot of an oem one i picked up a couple of years ago....i think it looks much better

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by welfarepc &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">yeah well i guess id figure someone would see your tail lights before they saw a tiny red light near your muffler....</TD></TR></TABLE>
Brightness&gt;Size
55w&gt;5w

My OEM rear fog.

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by i_VTEC &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">

No its a "FOG LIGHT" Where i live the fog gets pretty bad and i wouldn't want anyone to rear end me. Its gotten so bad on the freeway where people have to drive 45.... </TD></TR></TABLE>Is it any brighter than your tail lights? That seems to work for me.

 

Reminds me of this^. It looks very similar. I like your fog idea alot, i just think you should wet sand it so it's smooth, go get some 800 and 2000 sand paper and sand it, and after that get any polish or wax and just buff that **** till its smooth.

 

crx looks cool.........i dig it!