sharkey_lsu

So I have purchased the Phillips Diamond Vision H7 55w fog-lights and they look great at night but I cannot get past the terrible blue bulb that is seen during the day when they are not in use.

My question is has anyone purchased LED H7 fog-lights and if so please make some recommendations. I came across these on ebay which is where I got the idea to use LED instead of standard halogen:

http://www.ebay.com/itm/300871574176...84.m1423.l2649

I know that I could do the HID retrofit but I do not have time at the moment for such an installation so that is not an option.

glj12

LED is fine. It will do an /okay/ job with projection. The only caveat is that you will need a load resistor, which it may or may not come with.

dansonchan

load resistor cause heat and can burn everything

deaner1979

whats a good kit for HID fogs (plug and play)?

Duals1ns

Here's a link for LED fog light that have CAN-BUS that will not set a warning on your cluster. (Plug & Play)...


http://www.carid.com/2009-mercedes-c...s-3127009.html

glj12

That's an H11 form factor; read: for C300 Luxury.

glj12

No, that's not only wrong, but it does not make any sense.

To effectively disperse heat, yes it does need to be mounted to a piece of metal. If you do not mount it, will it "burn everything"? No. The resistor will get too hot, thus killing the bulb.

Luckily, there is a vertical bar within the fog assembly region where you can mount the load resistor. Note, if you have a sport, you need an H7 form factor bulb. The H7s (from what I have seen) do not come with built-in error-free CANBUS.

Good luck.

Duals1ns

Here's the H7 LED light bulb.

http://www.carid.com/universal-led-l...s-3659434.html

glj12

That's awesome. I had such a hard time finding it since I was only looking on eBay. I'll have to add carid to my list then.

Thanks, Duals1ns!

Duals1ns

No problem.
Just make sure you order two, it doesn't come in a set/pair.

aowhaus

I'm curious to know the loss of brightness with the LEDs, as LEDs tend to be less bright as the beam is directional and doesn't utilize the reflector as effectively as a regular bulb.

I want to switch to LED bulbs, as the regular bulbs heats up too much and melts the protective film I have on the glass.

I am thinking of getting these LED bulbs in yellow and I have some extra resistors with an aluminum heat sink casing left over from another project which I could use to eliminate the error codes:
http://www.ebay.ca/itm/2pc-Yellow-H7...261fc2&vxp=mtr

sedici

Did you ever change fog light bulbs to led? I was planning on purchasing the following only unsure how they would be with cornering lights.

http://www.carid.com/2008-mercedes-c...-25675245.html

iMakeLuv2myMB

i just bought these for my 2009 c300, and they flash like 3 or 4 times then i get the error. any thoughts?

aabc

http://www.carid.com/articles/what-d...to-my-car.html

iMakeLuv2myMB

will the load resistors fix this issue?

Amaral0139

GLJ12 did these work for you. I have bought so many and I keep getting an error message on my '12 mb c300 trying to find something for my cornering lights