poleclimber63
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A few years back, during a Winter snow storm, a psycho-F350 driver passed me at speed, on a freshly sanded snow covered road, with the result of spraying me with rocks and chipping my windscreen and holing my headlights!
I went online looking for some OEM +01 headlights (which I'd been thinking of doing anyways), and to my disappointment, could only find ones North of $200 a piece!! I did find Chinese made Eagle Eyes headlights with marker side lights for $120, which I bought. They certainly weren't OEM, but they did the job---- sort of. They threw light farther than my old OEM 98 lenses, but were significantly dimmer <50ft zone. As this truck isn't my DD, I swallowed my disappointment and moved on.
Forward to Spring 2017, my son had bought a 2006 Mits Eclipse with a broken fog light, so we went online and he purchased "2" replacement lights and assemblies for $45. When they arrived, we discovered we'd received 2 sets of 2, 4 lights total! He had no use for the 2nd set so he gave them to me.
As my DD is a 2002 GT Celica with projectors, and during the previous Winter I had a similar issue with the light dispersion that I had with my 4R, I had purchased and installed some GTS OEM fogs. This totally fixed the light dispersion issue, so having some fogs sitting on my shelf, I decided to retrofit my "free" fogs onto the 4R.
When I installed the fogs on my Celica, I had a pleasant surprise that Toyota already wired the vehicle for fogs, so all that I needed to do was remove the tape and plug'em in!
Unfortunately, with the 4R, Toyota didn't do this with the 4R until 99', so I was completely out of luck.
Luckily, during my visit to the Pick N' Pull to pull some odd parts for my Celica (rear disc brake assemblies for a project next Spring), I grabbed fuses, relays dash switches and an AUX relay+fuse enclosure (with the wire back to the fire wall) from a 2001 Celica--- all for $5!! So, all I needed to do was to acquire some plugs for the H11 bulbs and fab some mounting brackets---- and decide where to mount them. Back at the Pick and pull, I found H11 plugs out of a Suzuki Vitara. From my bits of aluminum, I fabbed mounts and from the hardware store, some stainless bolts, nuts, washers and springs. The only solid mounting points that made sense were some holes in the bottom of the bumper on each side. I cut 4" holes in the plastic trim below the bumpers and mounted the brackets. https://flic.kr/p/Yp4TDj
I fabbed a mount for the fuse box to attach to the existing main fuse box. https://flic.kr/p/XLuJMM
I then ran the cables. https://flic.kr/p/YHwALW
Here are some more pics from under the bumper and the fuse box.
https://flic.kr/p/Yp4TC7
https://flic.kr/p/Yp4Ty9
https://flic.kr/p/XLuJMr
https://flic.kr/p/XLuJLV
https://flic.kr/p/YMECcg
So, cost wise, I spent $5 on the fuse box, dash switch, relay and fuses, $20 on hardware, $10 H11 plugs and $6 on the fuse splitter--- $41 total. AND 4-6 hours of labour...
Now I can see!!
I went online looking for some OEM +01 headlights (which I'd been thinking of doing anyways), and to my disappointment, could only find ones North of $200 a piece!! I did find Chinese made Eagle Eyes headlights with marker side lights for $120, which I bought. They certainly weren't OEM, but they did the job---- sort of. They threw light farther than my old OEM 98 lenses, but were significantly dimmer <50ft zone. As this truck isn't my DD, I swallowed my disappointment and moved on.
Forward to Spring 2017, my son had bought a 2006 Mits Eclipse with a broken fog light, so we went online and he purchased "2" replacement lights and assemblies for $45. When they arrived, we discovered we'd received 2 sets of 2, 4 lights total! He had no use for the 2nd set so he gave them to me.
As my DD is a 2002 GT Celica with projectors, and during the previous Winter I had a similar issue with the light dispersion that I had with my 4R, I had purchased and installed some GTS OEM fogs. This totally fixed the light dispersion issue, so having some fogs sitting on my shelf, I decided to retrofit my "free" fogs onto the 4R.
When I installed the fogs on my Celica, I had a pleasant surprise that Toyota already wired the vehicle for fogs, so all that I needed to do was remove the tape and plug'em in!
Unfortunately, with the 4R, Toyota didn't do this with the 4R until 99', so I was completely out of luck.
Luckily, during my visit to the Pick N' Pull to pull some odd parts for my Celica (rear disc brake assemblies for a project next Spring), I grabbed fuses, relays dash switches and an AUX relay+fuse enclosure (with the wire back to the fire wall) from a 2001 Celica--- all for $5!! So, all I needed to do was to acquire some plugs for the H11 bulbs and fab some mounting brackets---- and decide where to mount them. Back at the Pick and pull, I found H11 plugs out of a Suzuki Vitara. From my bits of aluminum, I fabbed mounts and from the hardware store, some stainless bolts, nuts, washers and springs. The only solid mounting points that made sense were some holes in the bottom of the bumper on each side. I cut 4" holes in the plastic trim below the bumpers and mounted the brackets. https://flic.kr/p/Yp4TDj
I fabbed a mount for the fuse box to attach to the existing main fuse box. https://flic.kr/p/XLuJMM
I then ran the cables. https://flic.kr/p/YHwALW
Here are some more pics from under the bumper and the fuse box.
https://flic.kr/p/Yp4TC7
https://flic.kr/p/Yp4Ty9
https://flic.kr/p/XLuJMr
https://flic.kr/p/XLuJLV
https://flic.kr/p/YMECcg
So, cost wise, I spent $5 on the fuse box, dash switch, relay and fuses, $20 on hardware, $10 H11 plugs and $6 on the fuse splitter--- $41 total. AND 4-6 hours of labour...
Now I can see!!
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