I'm wondering if anyone has or knows how to install foglights on a 98 civic front bumper?

Foglights that would fit into and replace the vents on a 99 or 00 model.

Does one just cut extra carefully? Or is this just not done at all?

 

you want to put 99-2000 fogs lights on 98??

 

its not that hard. you take the bumper off the on the side of the lower grill on the left and right side. cut carefully where it's mark. If i came of no service for your question someone else will pick up after me.

 

Yup pretty much, Take off the bumper Measure, And cut carefully... I'm about to do the same thing with my Del Sol.

 

Searching (google anymore) is great
http://www.hondaautomotiveparts.com/...es/civic/1997/

 

Cool, thanks guys.

 

The foglights that fit in the fake brake ducts on '99-'00 models won't fit on '96-'98 models normally. There have been a few people who have made it work, but it doesn't look very good at all and I imagine the light pattern is all kinds of stupid.

 

why dont you just get the jdm lights for 96-98.
they look alot better then with the 99 lights.

 

I dont know. Something about 99-00 fog lights gets me off. I like how wide they sit, and prefer them in the bumper.

Maybe its that there are so many knockoff/garbage looking fogs I'm trying to get away from it.

 

if you want the 99-00 fogs so bad, why not just swap the entire front end?

then the fogs will fit properly and not look retarded

 

if you want the 99-00 fogs so bad, why not just swap the entire front end?

then the fogs will fit properly and not look retarded

 

I agree. get the front end.

 

yep front end convention lights bumper fender grill hood radiator support just because you like the fog lights it will look way nicer

 

Get some DEPO fogz...they are good enough and are not wack like the ebay knock off ones. The DEPO ones run about 75 bux.

I personally like the 99-00 ones also but i would do the whole front end, not a mickey mouse job. Or get the DEPO square ones. They are BOMB. I have them in my car and they look sick. I can maybe take a pic but i dont know how to post them in this new HT forum.

 

get the 96-98 fogs, its a lot cheaper than getting a new front end, and the install on is easy.

 

The DEPO foglights are very often exactly what is sold on eBay. They're sold by PW:JDM too.

Esuse are the brand that are closest to OEM, but they're a bit more difficult to find for sale.

I've had DEPO, Esuse and OE (all clear squares on my '98) and the only one I would 100% never buy again would be the DEPO brand ones.

Oh, and here is what '99-'00 foglights look like on a '96-'98.

 

Wow, that looks, uhh, special.

They aren't strictly JDM, you could get them in north america as well, there were square and round versions available, although I think i've only ever seen the round version in a '96 civic sales brochure.

 

The clear round ones were the only ones available in the US.

Here are other photos of the car I just posted. 1996-1998 with 1999-2000 fog lights.





96 97 98 99 00 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 '96-'98 '96-'00 '99-'00 96-98 96-00 99-00 fog light lights foglight foglights

 

Personally, I don't think that looks half bad. Maybe its just the clean car...?

But they are definitely spread way out.

Thanks for posting the pictures NOFX, it helped me get a good idea of what it could look like.

 

NOFX...sorry if thats your car, but **** man, what the hell did that poor car ever do to you to deserve all those horrible things you did to it?

 

I wasn't aware we only got the round versions, good info as always.

Thats pretty far removed from NOFX's car, I'd say the similarities end after the part where they're both 6th gen civics.

 

we get the square versions. i have them on mine. got them off ebay for 60 bucks. don't really look or work half bad. they're glass too. i'll take a pic as soon as i get outside

 

That's definitely not my car. It's from someone from overseas on another forum. That's a European car.
I don't know where you're from, but Honda does not list square or yellow fog lights in the US.

 

i live in central ny near binghamton so i know i'm pretty much as far from jdm as possible so if i can get them off ebay then anyone can

 

Oooh. You got square foglights off eBay for $60 and you live in NY (I don't know where Binghamton is off hand; I checked Google.).

Those would be aftermarket lights.

When we read "we get the square ones", we thought you mean we got them as optionla parts from Honda, which we did not.