Fog Lamp Bulb Question

[RWKustoms]

I just got some H3 bulbs for my fogs but I noticed that they were 85W (H.I.D. xenon-krypton by Euro Dezigns). Just wanting to know if that would be too high of a wattage for these fogs and might cause the lens to crack from the heat.

 

[Defiant]

Don't panic. Anything packed in a Transformers package is lying about its wattage and light output. The blue tint will take away most of its actual ability to light up the darkness, while retaining an ability to piss-off almost every other driver you see. The contrast with the headlights' yellow or white will make the front end of your car look like a circus wagon coming down the road.
Stay with Phillips, OSRAM, Sylvania (their Silver*Stars are made by OSRAM), or even non-branded bulbs for H-3s. Luckily, they've been used in European foglights for some 40 or more years, and are both abundant and cheap.
And no, foglights do essentially nothing for fog, other than being mounted much lower and having a more-controlled pattern. But they do wonders for nights in the woods, finding critter eyes even better than high beams.

Going to a higher-wattage fog bulb will be harmless up to 100W, but the reflector design and beam pattern doesn't return much gain for the effort. You're as well-off to just stay with the stock 55W (and this is coming from someone who always upgrades his headlight bulbs).

 

[spyderturbo007]

Don't panic. Anything packed in a Transformers package is lying about its wattage and light output. The blue tint will take away most of its actual ability to light up the darkness, while retaining an ability to piss-off almost every other driver you see. The contrast with the headlights' yellow or white will make the front end of your car look like a circus wagon coming down the road.

Everyone in the Lab turned and shot me the eyeball after hysterically laughing at that one. I guess I should pretend like I'm doing some work for awhile.

 

[RWKustoms]

Don't panic. Anything packed in a Transformers package is lying about its wattage and light output. The blue tint will take away most of its actual ability to light up the darkness, while retaining an ability to piss-off almost every other driver you see. The contrast with the headlights' yellow or white will make the front end of your car look like a circus wagon coming down the road.
Stay with Phillips, OSRAM, Sylvania (their Silver*Stars are made by OSRAM), or even non-branded bulbs for H-3s. Luckily, they've been used in European foglights for some 40 or more years, and are both abundant and cheap.
And no, foglights do essentially nothing for fog, other than being mounted much lower and having a more-controlled pattern. But they do wonders for nights in the woods, finding critter eyes even better than high beams.

Going to a higher-wattage fog bulb will be harmless up to 100W, but the reflector design and beam pattern doesn't return much gain for the effort. You're as well-off to just stay with the stock 55W (and this is coming from someone who always upgrades his headlight bulbs).

Defiant you're so unpredictable, I almost fell off my chair reading this. Well I don't think the front of my car will look like a circus show because that's why I bought the fog bulbs. I currently have my headlights retrofitted with HIDs (Iceberg bluishish white (8000K) with TSX projectors with a perfect cutoff and no glare) so the yellow stock bulbs looked out of place when both fogs and headlights are on. The reason for purchasing these bulbs are simply just to colormatch the lights which hopefully works out. I did test the bulbs on a 12V supply and they are way brighter than the 55W stockers so if they're lying about wattage then it's definitely higher than 55W for sure. I'm glad to know that this amount of wattage wont do anything to the lens though, so thank you.