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Anyone do this yet? Also what's the easiest way? A quick visual looks like the bottom is the easiest, but haven't jacked it up yet.
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Quite a few people have replaced the fog lights. You don't need to do anything special for just the bulb. You don't need to remove the bumper. The owner's manual shows what needs to be done. There is a hole directly under the fog light with a screw in it. You unscrew that with a phillips I believe, the screw has a retainer so it doesn't fall out. You just keep unscrewing until you can feel the screw is loose when you push up on it.

Then, the manual shows you that you need to slip a flat head screw driver in a small notch in the black housing right where the fog light lens is. There is no special tab inside, its just a hole to give you leverage. You try to pry the black plastic housing off. There are about 4-5 tabs holding the outer edges of the housing in place. Prying it per instruction should only get you to undo 1 or 2 of the tabs. The rest you have to try to undo yourself in whatever way you can. Some of them come out easily, others not so much. Just try to be fairly easy on it since it seems like you can break the plastic tabs if you are too rough.

The manual then instructs you to remove the coupler/connector, then the bulb, but I found it much easier to just remove the bulb first (you need to twist the bulb to unlock it, then pull it out), then you can easily remove the coupler.

Then you just reverse the process.
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lol...manual...I should look at that?

Seriously though, I did a quick search and found the instructions on how to replace the whole housing, so what you are saying makes sense. Remove the black plastic cover for the foglight area to replace the bulb. That's gonna be easier than removing a bunch of plastic or inner fender liner.
I should note removing the black cover just reveals an opening on the side/back of the fog light assembly which gives you access to the bulb.

But yeah, I think a lot of people got confused with certain online instructions calling for removing the bumper or something complicated like that which is necessary for changing out the assembly.
Installing all new foglights is significantly more work but if you look at your foglight housing there is a screw hole closest to the wheels on each side respectively.. it will allow you to slight just the inner housing out and replace the bulb. It's pretty easy and it's also in your driver's manual under "Lighting" or something like that.
Yeah, I peeked at the manual. Easy thing to do, 1 screw and pull the cover off, then 2 screws to loosen the light and pull the bulb. Thanks guys! LEDs are so much nicer looking.
Yeah, I peeked at the manual. Easy thing to do, 1 screw and pull the cover off, then 2 screws to loosen the light and pull the bulb. Thanks guys! LEDs are so much nicer looking.
What kind of LED's did you get Guinzu? I was thinking about that too.
68 SMD LED bulbs. 6k color so they match the 6k HID bulbs I swapped to. I'll get a pic of them on.

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68 SMD LED bulbs. 6k color so they match the 6k HID bulbs I swapped to. I'll get a pic of them on.

Lookin good! Did you need to install load resistors or rewiring? Can you share the website link?
Guinzu! You have Crimson Garnet Red! If you don't mind, can you get more sexy shots of your car and post it on this thread:

http://www.ilxforums.com/forum/14-acura-ilx-pictures/366-crimson-garnet-acura-ilx-photo-thread.html

There are so many brown, silver, white, black, and polished metal ILXs out there... I still haven't seen much owner shot pics of Crimson Red ILXs floating around. It would be much appreciated!
Guinzu! You have Crimson Garnet Red! If you don't mind, can you get more sexy shots of your car and post it on this

http://www.ilxforums.com/forum/14-acura-ilx-pictures/366-crimson-garnet-acura-ilx-photo-thread.html

There are so many brown, silver, white, black, and polished metal ILXs out there... I still haven't seen much owner shot pics of Crimson Red ILXs floating around. It would be much appreciated!
Shigatsu, you may want to check out my thread "more new wheels" in the forum: Wheels, Tires, and
Suspension.
I got them off Ebay. I haven't had any issues from 3-4 different cars and LED lights. Since foglights don't blink, no resistors are necessary. Just plug and play. Search using H11 LED. Tons of different ones and colors, I went with the standard 6k white and the most LED for the buck. Price was around $10 shipped. Will post pics of Crimson Garnet on that thread :D
Just installed a pair of Hoen xenonmatch fog lights, it took like 20 minutes after I actually figured out what I was doing and they look 5x better than the weak yellow tinted stock ones. I'd definitely recommend changing out the fog lights for anyone trying to upgrade the look of your car on a budget.
Here are the two brightest h11s you can buy that are LED


5K WHITE 22W 1200LM LED HEADLIGHTS FOG LIGHTS H11 | 1 PAIR - H11 - H Series - Bulb #
This one is insanely bright but its directional which might or might not be a problem for you. They are also $100...

5K WHITE 10 LED DRL/FOG LIGHT BULBS H11 | 1 PAIR - H11 - H Series - Bulb #
These are still super bright and not as expensive and output light in all directions.

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Replaced mine to purple, going from the bottom is the easiest way to do it. It took me no time at all once I lifted it.
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