Foglights for 2009 Genesis

[BmWhat?]

Current ones installed the OEM, aren't bright enough...My brother wants xenon foglights that would go with the headlights..

I have no clue regarding lights of vehicles..

Which ones should I tell him to buy?

The headlights are OEM btw...

 

[Mark_888]

There are several threads on this subject. Be very careful about replacements becasue the "reflectors" (not sure if this is the correct term) are made of very flimsy material and are prone to melting if temps go over the stock fog lamps.

 

[brfatal]

Current ones installed the OEM, aren't bright enough...My brother wants xenon foglights that would go with the headlights..

I have no clue regarding lights of vehicles..

Which ones should I tell him to buy?

The headlights are OEM btw...

You cannot do HID foglights. It's a road hazard, illegal, and outright stupidity.

 

[BmWhat?]

You cannot do HID foglights. It's a road hazard, illegal, and outright stupidity.

What about yellow Mr.Stupidity

 

[Frogg]

I have yellow (3000K) 35w Hellas in my foglights. looks great.

 

[scottdk]

A good fog lamp produces a wide, bar-shaped beam of light with a sharp horizontal cutoff (dark above, bright below) at the top of the beam, and minimal upward light above the cutoff. HID's don't belong in a fog light.

There are generally no more yellow bulbs available in quality worth buying. The market for them in Europe pretty much dried up once France stopped requiring yellow light; they're now regarded in Europe primarily as a retro or styling item, which no longer justifies first-line manufacture, so most of the yellow bulbs now on the market are of iffy quality (though some of them are hideously expensive!).

Good (and legal) fog lamps produce white or Selective Yellow light, and use tungsten-halogen bulbs. Xenon or HID bulbs are inherently unsuitable for use in fog lamps, and blue or other-colored lights are also the wrong choice.

The fog lamps' job is to show you the edges of the road, the lane markings, and the immediate foreground. When used in combination with the headlamps, good fog lamps weight the overall beam pattern towards the foreground so that even though there may be a relatively high level of upward stray light from the headlamps causing glareback from the fog or falling rain or snow, there will be more foreground light than usual without a corresponding increase in upward stray light, giving back some of the vision you lose to precipitation.

Danielsternlighting.com

 

[brfatal]

What about yellow Mr.Stupidity

Yes, even yellow. You can use yellow halogens if you want.

Foglights are not supposed to be bright to begin with. It's completely counter productive to their entire purpose.

 

[marty5marty]

What about yellow Mr.Stupidity

My friend got 8K HIDs on low beam and 8K HIDs on fog...looked great! thinking on doing 8K's instead of 6K

 

[brfatal]

My friend got 8K HIDs on low beam and 8K HIDs on fog...looked great! thinking on doing 8K's instead of 6K

Looked great to you, but there is a difference between "looks great" and "works great". In no way do they actually increase your night time vision. It's an optical illusion that they do because you're lighting up the foreground 5 ft in front of the car, which is a useless distance because it's too late to avoid hitting something. In actually they make your vision WORSE because blue light is not very usable by the human eye and because it scatters more. In fog and heavy snow you might as well be driving with your high beams on (if you've never done this, it's light having a wall of light in front of the car that you can't see thru). Even yellow is too bright in HID form. Foglights are by merit of function supposed to be low intensity.

Not to mention you're tuning your car into a mobile road hazard against all cars in front of you from glare.

Cliff notes for dummies:
-It "looks cool" to people who aren't driving in front for you
-You're actually reducing your low light vision