Title sums it up pretty well, I'm using another OEM part from some other car on my Cobra. Yay!
2013 Mustang GT's showed up on dealer floors a few years ago and yours truly noticed that they came with LED fog lights... cue the gears turning. Now, Ford wants something in the neighborhood of $500 for EACH fog light
Obviously that price isn't very easy to swallow. Thankfully a company called Starkey Products has take off lights. They also only want $230 for a new set, not bad. [ LINKY ]
I think we can get them for cheaper... hmm, seems they have a clearance section! Boom, same lights for $120 because they are 'blemished'. SOLD! [ LINKY ]
The blemish won't matter because I'm just after the LED and optic. Also, I wanted that nice weather proof plug for the back so I picked up this adapter harness. [ LINKY ]
So $120 for lights and $50 for the harness. We are obviously more than plug and play LED's at this point but half the price of an HID projector retrofit.
Pros
Instant on/ No warm up
Pure 5000k white output
Sharp Cutoff
Cons
Price
Lots of DIY Modification
Price lol
Now, on to the photos!
This next photo is without the optic on the front, it shows how important the optic really is.
Those sumbishes 'permasealed' the optic into the housing... this will be fun to get out.
Finally, here is the actual LED emitter, that little guy is putting out all of this light. Looking at it directly is like gazing at the sun lol
Baked the '13 fogs open to get the optic out(thanks for sealing them in Ford).
Before I baked them, took the cobra fogs off. Size comparison.
What's for dinner? Fog lights, Fog lights are for dinner.
Dat cutoff doe! Optic only output shot, these things are going to be sick!
Optic, Led/Board, heatsink and adapter harness ready to go for the Cobra lights.
Comparing the back of the '13's light and my Cobra light. I'm going to have to get creative with a dremel....
Got the holes cut out for the lens to poke through into the reflector.
In order to mount the lens I used a piece of PVC pipe cut to the shape of the back of the reflector bowl. That gave me a flat surface to mount the optic to. I will seal around it with black RTV to keep light from leaking out around it.
Almost there!
Got the hardware, not my favorite stuff, so I will improve this down the road. All I need to do is seal up everything and they are done. The car is at the exhaust shop currently, but I will have finished pics mounted in the bumper soon!
Finally done! They came out great! I'm super happy with the final result, the optic seems to have a clean and sharp output. The optic also is built to bounce light into the reflector bowl so that from a distance it looks stock! They are almost perfect. I will post output shots when it gets dark out, I was too excited not to share with you guys!
Photo from above the cutoff
Photo from below the cutoff, bright!
Looking good with the switchbacks in the headlights
From a distance, looks stock to me!
2013 Mustang GT's showed up on dealer floors a few years ago and yours truly noticed that they came with LED fog lights... cue the gears turning. Now, Ford wants something in the neighborhood of $500 for EACH fog light
Obviously that price isn't very easy to swallow. Thankfully a company called Starkey Products has take off lights. They also only want $230 for a new set, not bad. [ LINKY ]
I think we can get them for cheaper... hmm, seems they have a clearance section! Boom, same lights for $120 because they are 'blemished'. SOLD! [ LINKY ]
The blemish won't matter because I'm just after the LED and optic. Also, I wanted that nice weather proof plug for the back so I picked up this adapter harness. [ LINKY ]
So $120 for lights and $50 for the harness. We are obviously more than plug and play LED's at this point but half the price of an HID projector retrofit.
Pros
Instant on/ No warm up
Pure 5000k white output
Sharp Cutoff
Cons
Price
Lots of DIY Modification
Price lol
Now, on to the photos!
This next photo is without the optic on the front, it shows how important the optic really is.
Those sumbishes 'permasealed' the optic into the housing... this will be fun to get out.
Finally, here is the actual LED emitter, that little guy is putting out all of this light. Looking at it directly is like gazing at the sun lol
Baked the '13 fogs open to get the optic out(thanks for sealing them in Ford).
Before I baked them, took the cobra fogs off. Size comparison.
What's for dinner? Fog lights, Fog lights are for dinner.
Dat cutoff doe! Optic only output shot, these things are going to be sick!
Optic, Led/Board, heatsink and adapter harness ready to go for the Cobra lights.
Comparing the back of the '13's light and my Cobra light. I'm going to have to get creative with a dremel....
Got the holes cut out for the lens to poke through into the reflector.
In order to mount the lens I used a piece of PVC pipe cut to the shape of the back of the reflector bowl. That gave me a flat surface to mount the optic to. I will seal around it with black RTV to keep light from leaking out around it.
Almost there!
Got the hardware, not my favorite stuff, so I will improve this down the road. All I need to do is seal up everything and they are done. The car is at the exhaust shop currently, but I will have finished pics mounted in the bumper soon!
Finally done! They came out great! I'm super happy with the final result, the optic seems to have a clean and sharp output. The optic also is built to bounce light into the reflector bowl so that from a distance it looks stock! They are almost perfect. I will post output shots when it gets dark out, I was too excited not to share with you guys!
Photo from above the cutoff
Photo from below the cutoff, bright!
Looking good with the switchbacks in the headlights
From a distance, looks stock to me!
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