Yellow fog light bulbs?

[Speedy]

I've searched as I'm sure this has been discussed, so either my searchfu isn't strong, or I'm not using the right terms.

I've got a fog light out on the 2002 4Runner and wanna replace them with amber bulbs. I was gonna snag the Hella ones, but they got awful reviews. What are you guys having luck with?

 

[leftyguns21]

ive got these in my 4th gen. pretty happy with them. not as bright as HIDs I had before but for the price they are good


https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01CTMSXY6/ref=oh_aui_search_detailpage?ie=UTF8&psc=1

 

[Speedy]

Thanks for the suggestion. Anyone know if they'll fit the 2002 model's housing? I do see they offer the H3 bulb type.

 

[jgue467]

I'd get sylvania, I've tried PIAA, don't last one year, tried OPT-7 LED cree h3, they REALLY suck. 1/3 the lumens and ZERO of the amount of light spread as OEM or sylvania. Just my experience, LED isn't ready for prime time, yet. :cowboy:

 

[12BYotaFan]

Hey OP, dont bother with yellow bulbs: there isnt a selective yellow bulb on the market wirth anything, and neither LED or HID ("3000K" burners) offer the same spectrum and effectiveness of a selective yellow halogen bulb (or halogen bulb in a selective yellow tinted housing/lens.

Buy a can of duplicolor metalcast gold, a few (1-3 very thin) light/thin layers over the lens of your fog lights, and use the correct type of uncoated (no blue coating, especially) halogen bulb in the housing.

(Selective yellow = incandescent spectrum with blue and cyan wavelengths filtered out [smallest quantity of light produced by an incandescent bulb]. Blue and cyan are the first wavelengths to scatter in dust/ fog/sleet/snow/rain, and are the least useful for seeing, considering most things are brown/red/green/black. You notice alot of offrosd lights, especially led bars are offered with an amber option? They are trying to do the same thing as selective yellow, but LEDs produce mainly blue light, so they cant do that effectively. Amber is the result of filtering blue, cyan and *green* wavelengths from the emitted spectrum).

 

[ToyotaBrah]

What about these bulbs?
https://www.amazon.com/Calais-Extre...UTF8&qid=1479178374&sr=8-1&keywords=h3+yellow

 

[Ed_C]

If you want the brightest most vivid yellow, coat or tint the lenses and run a HID kit. Doesn't even have to be a "brand name kit",I'm currently running a $20 eBay kit and applied yellow vinyl film on the inside foglight lenses. With the vinyl on the inside there's no chance of it getting damaged by rocks etc. like an external tint or coat. Standard halogen bulbs will be fine too, it just won't be as bright.

 

[Tek23]

I've gone through two sets of optilux in the past year. Love the color because of the orangish tint as opposed to pure yellow. My fogs are wired to my parking lights, so it's possible that when i lock/unlock the truck, I'm effecting the bulbs somehow.
Nevertheless, they're a good alternative.

 

[Speedy]

Thanks for the suggestions. Those led me to find the following, which I ordered and will try out and see how they do.

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0085BTQ3S/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o00_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1

 

[lext4r]

What about these bulbs?
https://www.amazon.com/Calais-Extre...UTF8&qid=1479178374&sr=8-1&keywords=h3+yellow

I run these bulbs and while the color is a perfect yellow, they offer zero light, imho, on the road.

 

[ToyotaBrah]

Thanks for the suggestions. Those led me to find the following, which I ordered and will try out and see how they do.

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0085BTQ3S/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o00_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1

Let me know how they work out! I may get a set too.

I run these bulbs and while the color is a perfect yellow, they offer zero light, imho, on the road.

Well, in that case, I think I may avoid them then! Thanks for the heads up.

 

[12BYotaFan]

Thanks for the suggestions. Those led me to find the following, which I ordered and will try out and see how they do.

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0085BTQ3S/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o00_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1

Just tint the lenses of your fogs like I stated above, and then buy a clear bulb of the correct type.

Fogs are yseless for 99% of drivers anyway, and should be turned off 99% of th time.

If you have issues with your low beams, add a set of legitimate low beams (any of a variety of LED offerings from jw speaker, truck lite or hella, or a set of either cibie z-beams or ge nighthawk 7" round sealed beam halogens) and run them with the stock headlights. These options give you the ability to improve both low and high beam lighting and legitimately and legally uograde your lighting, compared to trash bulbs and HID burners in hosuings designed for a different light source.