ghstudio

Many/most modern cars seem to only allow you to turn on the fog lights when your low main headlights are on which is, of course, rediculous and renders yellow fog lights useless.

Can the Mercedes e cars turn on just the fog lights with no other forward lights?

MCF

Try driving in the fog with high beams on. The light just bounces back at you. But to stay on topic, we need detailed instructions on how to get access to DRL (and fog) lights.

jerome8283

Yeah I know

Mixedfruits

ok turn wheels to side to get more room at the well to work with, there should be small clip things near wheel well facing the fog lights take thoose off, see the fog light, there is a metal cover over them, pop that off, next take the old light and replace with new

tlmbenzc350

I will wait until someone installs them to see if they work before ordering them. I do not want the bulbs to get too hot and burn the glass. Mixedfruit how long were the bulbs on and were there any issues?

Mixedfruits

on for a month ish now no issues

tlmbenzc350

Thanks I will be ordering them very soon.

MCF

Awesome. I'm out of pocket for a little bit. Let us know-how it
Goes. Pics of installation would be awesome.

Mixedfruits

/\ yea sorry i couldnt do install pics the guy did it for me and i was in a time crunch but tim if you have any questions shoot me a pm ill be glad to help

MCF

Timbenzc350, any update??

Mixedfruits

yeah timbenz wait till this saturday theres a 25% off sale

MCF

Any update on this? Anyone do it yet other than OP?

tlmbenzc350

I just received the bulbs yesterday and hopefully this week I will be able to install them.

MCF

Awesome. Any pics or hints during installation would be greatly appreciated!!

MCF

I guess this idea has failed to succeed....anyone else follow up with this?

jerome8283

I guess not.

blackbullit

I ordered these bulbs and tried to install myself.

Unfortunately, they did not fit the housing (base of bulb was loose where the o ring fits into the housing) and the plug did not fit the DRL wiring harness plug on my E550.

Not sure how Mixedfruits' bulbs were installed, unless significant modifications were made to the housing and the harness.

I returned to IJDMTOY and they graciously refunded my money.

Staying OE on the DRLs for now.....

MCF

That sucks.

clmulli

Thanks for the update. I was thinking of ordering a set. Nothing worse than getting excited about a new toy and it doesn't work properly.

GRIPP5

I want to replace the dual fog lights with the newer "L" or ""hockey puck" led light. My question is , if i order theses from the dealer, and have some one else install them , will i get an error message on my dash.

LasVegasMike

From what I read on here, and from looking at the connections behind the existing dual lamps, the plugs are completely different so they won't be just a plug in install.

Now you could hard wire them in by cutting plugs off, but in the end the cars computer will still be looking for the draw of 4 bulbs, so I don't know how you fix that error.

Supposedly someone on here did the upgrade and when I asked how, all he replied with was he followed an old thread that showed how to do it. I've gone back through all 125 pages of posts in this forum and never saw a how to on this.

GRIPP5

Thanks mike!!. I guess will stay with the duals. and when one blows out i will just replace the bulbs. thanks

chrisvr6

Wait, what about the bulbs on the inner lights? Aren't they the same?

LasVegasMike

Well, Well, Well, look what I found on the ECS Tuning site:

http://www.ecstuning.com/Mercedes_Be...980/ES2182522/

Anyone willing to bite an do a write up? I'm certainly tempted!

I'm going to message them and see if they have any pictures of their kit installed.

ECSTuning

LasVegasMike,

I'm glad that you found the LED DRL conversion kit on our website.

Unfortunately, we do not have any photos of this kit installed yet, but we hope to have some in the future.

I can tell you that this kits contains all genuine Mercedes-Benz components. This is the same kit that would be used at the dealership if you were having the conversion done there.

This kit includes the lamps, new grilles and the electrical connectors you will need for a complete conversion without the need to cut into the wiring harness and use crude crimp connectors and electrical tape.

I would recommend our Electrical Terminal Tool Kit to aid in assembly of the connectors that come with the conversion kit. The Electrical Terminal Tool Kit is available HERE, or by clicking on the photo of it below.



If there is anything else I can answer about this kit, please don't hesitate to post or send a PM and we will do our best to answer your questions.