my recommendation is only to use it in foggy/heavy rain conditions as intended.

I suggested dimmer LED bulbs, but this might also work.

:shakes head:

If he dims it to where it is no brighter than his brake lights or tail lights, he can turn it on as an accent light no problem.

It will be less useful in fog conditions, but it will bother other drivers less on clear days.

OP, I like the tint idea.


Changing the bulb would work. Check out the model number and see if you can run something else.

You could also probably wire an inline resistor or varistor if you want a dimmer switch.

I've heard that the EVO-R fog lamp is dimmer than the OEM. Can anyone verify?

I'm not going to get sucked into another argument with you thats just going to get me banned and more praise to you. I wonder if you get the same warnings I do whenever you quote one of my comments... Probably not since your a god here.



Anyway OP pop out the bulb and see if there is a wattage number on the bulb. If there is just try and get a lower wattage bulb, should be simple.

you do wat you want but that fog lamp is a frikken fog lamp and suppose to be bright for a reason. lol i would :shakes head: for using that as an accessory light.

EVO-R I'm running is not very bright. You can also get in pre-tinted which is probably darker. As for the light the OP is running now, 2 good options have been mentioned, which are tinting or running an in-line/variable resistor on the hot side wire.

I've heard you use it when cutting off other Z's the first time you see them :stirthepot:

Ok, I don't understand your logic, but if that's your opinion, I respect it.

WOW This got out of hand fast LOL.
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I do appreciate people trying to keep on task here however :-)

So we've got:
- Lower wattage bulb
- Tint the plastic itself

I think a different bulb would be key for me.

On a side note... this is run off the license plate voltage so it's on whenever the head lights are on. I'm just a bit OCD and like all my lights to be equal "bright-ness".

I was going to suggest other bulb or VHT Night shade perhaps, that spray might help

But it should be bright as Mr Kenchan said

I've never been told my OEM is too bright, I cannot lie, I have it on most times because I think I'm a F1 racecar :)

The JDM fog is pretty bright, but only in certain situations. It's not to bad when there's other light sources around, like street lamps. If you're on a pitch black road on a clear night however, its pretty bright. As an experiment, I applied 15% tint film to see how it looks....and it looked pretty good, but useless as a foglight. I have since taken the film off and it's pretty much on when the lights are on. Chances are, it's not something a police officer is gonna pull you over for. They care more about any type of color that's specific to emergency vehicles like a blue light. It's not like he's gonna have a light meter on him measuring how many lumens the lamp is giving off.

^ don't you mean how many candelas is output from the light? lol

lumens is the total amount of visible light from a light source, candelas is power emitted from a light source is a particular direction. Same thing really.