Just ordered fxr 3.0 3" and bmw led fog lights!

D Farms · 2014-02-22T16:33:07+00:00

I just ordered a set of fxr-3.0 with 3" lenses from trs and a set of these awesome BMW X5 LED foglights to retrofit onto my 02. $60! thats almost 1/3 the cost of the oem runner fogs! BMW X5 OEM LED Fog Lights - Closeouts Ive got my own 3d printer which i designed from scratch and I plan to 3d print the shrouds. also I plan to print the housing for the foglights as well as they probably wont mount directly in. this thing I like about the fogs is they have a really wide throw, they're 60 bucks, and they wire in directly because they are leds, also they look like they are really light weight and compact. I plan to do a full write up on how I install the fxr lenses, Ive got access to basically a full machine shop with mills lathes and cnc versions of both as well as a nice laser cutter.edit: I just ended up using a sanding wheel on the dremel, It worked quickly and the end result was smooth, I think I saw someone do this with a cutoff disk, and im not sure why, the sanding wheel worked really nicely. Edit: Just so You know, A month ago I ordered a pnp hid kit, the kind that fits in your reflector. Before I fit it, I noticed that my reflectors had started to oxidize but I didnt pay much attention to it. After a few weeks of having the pnps I decided to go for the fxr-3.0 3" projectors, mainly because the pnp kit had a very crappy light distrobution. I was able to modify the cutoffs of the pnp hids to cut a decent line but nothing like a real projector. So theres a couple things to know about pnp projectors 1. If you have fluted lenses pnp hids are not a good idea, the flutes basically cause glare, also If you plan to retrofit projectors you are going to want a clear unfluted lens. 2. Because most reflectors are made for Halogens they will not work well with hids, the reason is because the coil on a halogen is very predictable and also the filament on a halogen is longer than the arc in the pnp hid kits, what this means is that you get a very narrow output of light, which actually means a loss in visibility. 3. If you want more light out of a halogen reflector get better halogens, or do a projector retrofit.