{"id":2307,"date":"2017-01-26T06:00:22","date_gmt":"2017-01-26T11:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mechanicalmalarkey.com\/?p=2307"},"modified":"2017-01-26T06:00:22","modified_gmt":"2017-01-26T11:00:22","slug":"my-car-new-fog-lights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mechanicalmalarkey.com\/index.php\/2017\/01\/26\/my-car-new-fog-lights\/","title":{"rendered":"My Car: New Fog Lights"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A year ago I installed a set of Harbor Freight fog lights on my 1997 Honda Civic. They didn&#8217;t really do very much compared to my LED headlight bulbs, so I almost never used them.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2312\" src=\"https:\/\/mechanicalmalarkey.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/2017_01_26_01.jpg\" alt=\"2017_01_26_01.jpg\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" \/><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>I picked up a pair of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B00G620ZVU\/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o05_s00?ie=UTF8\" target=\"_blank\">Nilite LED fog lights<\/a> from Amazon. They have a lower lumen rating that my LED headlight bulbs, but they&#8217;re mounted low to work against fog better than the regular headlights.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2313\" src=\"https:\/\/mechanicalmalarkey.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/2017_01_26_02.jpg\" alt=\"2017_01_26_02\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" \/><\/p>\n<p>What better workbench than the hood of your car?<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2315\" src=\"https:\/\/mechanicalmalarkey.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/2017_01_26_04.jpg\" alt=\"2017_01_26_04\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I have <a href=\"http:\/\/mechanicalmalarkey.com\/2016\/09\/29\/my-car-rewiring-the-foglights\/\" target=\"_blank\">installed a proper relay and switch setup<\/a> for the old lights, but I didn&#8217;t do the wiring at the lights very neatly. This time I cleaned it up and made it tight and neat.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2314\" src=\"https:\/\/mechanicalmalarkey.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/2017_01_26_03.jpg\" alt=\"2017_01_26_03\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" \/><\/p>\n<p>At the top are the old lights, and the bottom is the new lights. I liked the look of the old lights, but the color didn&#8217;t really look right with the LED headlights.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2317\" src=\"https:\/\/mechanicalmalarkey.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/2017_01_26_05.jpg\" alt=\"2017_01_26_05\" width=\"2400\" height=\"1200\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Finally, a comparison of the light put out by my headlights, old foglights, and new fog lights. The new lights fill in the pattern from the headlights a bit, so night driving when there isn&#8217;t any traffic should be a little better.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>New blog posts every Monday and Thursday, plus pictures throughout the week on <a href=\"http:\/\/facebook.com\/mechanicalmalarkey\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/mech_malarkey\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/instagram.com\/mechanicalmalarkey\">Instagram<\/a>!<\/p>\n<p>Mechanical Malarkey <a href=\"http:\/\/mechanicalmalarkey.com\/stickers\/\" target=\"_blank\">stickers available for $5<\/a> anywhere in the US!<\/p>\n<p>-Dan<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A year ago I installed a set of Harbor Freight fog lights on my 1997 Honda Civic. They didn&#8217;t really do very much compared to my LED headlight bulbs, so I almost never used them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[33,45],"class_list":["post-2307","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-my-car","tag-electrical","tag-lights"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mechanicalmalarkey.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2307","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mechanicalmalarkey.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mechanicalmalarkey.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mechanicalmalarkey.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mechanicalmalarkey.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2307"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mechanicalmalarkey.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2307\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mechanicalmalarkey.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2307"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mechanicalmalarkey.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2307"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mechanicalmalarkey.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}