Fog Light Buyer’s Guide

What Is a Fog Light?

When you need brighter light than your vehicle's headlights or tail light can generate, you switch on its fog lights and continue driving in safety. A fog light produces a wide, bar-shaped beam that can bore through bad weather conditions like fog, heavy rain, and dust storms without getting reflected or dispersed. Not all vehicles come with fog lights as standard issue parts, and you may have to install them as an upgrade for your daily driver.

Fog is one of the most dangerous driving conditions, but heavy rain and snow can be similarly hazardous. In all of these situations much of the light from your regular headlights is reflected back at you, which can impair rather than improve visibility. In contrast, fog lights are mounted low on the vehicle, and have a wide beam angled toward the ground, which reduces glare and enables you to better see the road ahead.

It’s obvious that lights so critical to your safety must be functional when you need them, but that doesn’t mean just replacing them when they fail. Although today’s Halogen bulbs last much longer than the regular incandescent bulbs of yore, they still wear and become dim over time, and the reduced illumination makes it difficult to see clearly in inclement weather. For safe foul weather driving, Halogen fog light bulbs should be replaced in pairs at regular intervals. We also recommend that you carry spares in your vehicle, so if a bulb unexpectedly fails while you’re far from home, you can still make the journey safely.

We offer direct replacement original equipment Halogen bulbs, but we also have Halogen bulbs with several degrees of increased brightness, as well as long-lasting LED bulbs, if you want to upgrade your lighting. Our replacement OE bulbs will fit the same and provide the same degree of illumination and durability as bulbs from a dealer, but at a much better price. And upgrading is easy, because our upgraded bulbs are manufactured to fit in the same location as the OE bulb and require no modifications to your vehicle.

Our upgraded Halogen fog light bulbs are available in color temperatures up to 8000K in a range of colors, from yellow to white, to bright white and ultra-white, to blue. These bulbs are up to 50% brighter, and cast a beam that is wider and extends further for increased visibility. The LED bulbs we have on offer are also significantly brighter, and in addition they have several advantages over incandescent bulbs. They’re insensitive to vibration, an important consideration if you regularly drive over rough roads or off-road, they consume much less energy, and they last as much as 25 times longer than incandescent bulbs.