SMDs in the fog light housing, Final iteration using 90mm circles of SMD 5050 leds Options

[dangrouche]

Okay, in my continuing quest to update the incandescent bulbs in our teeners, I changed out the 35 watt bulbs to SMDs in each housing. the cost was minimal of course. I also augmented the light fog grills with "3W White LED Eagle Eye Daytime Running DRL Light Tail Backup Lamp, Stock number# 2XSKU40521" from my my favorite China vendor, Bang good.com. Cost was $5.99 for four of these eagle eyes units; I installed the other pair as daytime running lights on my other car.
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I cut out some styrofoam discs (from a take out container) and placed the assembly into the fog light lenses, added some wiring, all WITHOUT cutting any of the OEM wiring.
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check it out, one of the pics shows the driver's side bulb with the 35 watt incandescent, compared to the passenger side with the four SMDs.
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the pics are misleading. I had the camera flash off and it looks like a blaze, but in person, you see eight bright dots, of the same color as DRLs that you see on current Audis. I will try to add a better pic later.

[dangrouche]

I appreciate your comments. I don't think they blind, but they are very very useful at night and let other drivers know of my presence. The remark,"a glaring white dot to oncoming motorists" is what I wanted to accomplish. I generally don't use the foglights, and when I do, its to alert others of my presence. I wanted to have a means to switch my DRLs on and off and the OEM foglight switch accomplishes that feature. The comment about blinding oncoming traffic is accurate, but I wanted to install something that was not that glaring, but visible during the day. And I wanted something that worked within the confines of the fog light openings. If I really wanted to be offensive, I would just put on driving beams in place of the fogs.

Since our cars are tiny by today's standards, I wanted to alert oncoming traffic, on left and right turns. The added benefit is that these bulbs do not take 35watts to run. The only filament remaining filament bulbs on the car are the four tiny ones for the dash controls, the headlamps, and the license plate bulbs (done and done 1-3-14).