Thread: How NOT to melt your fog lights

Does anyone know where to get 55w 898 fog light bulbs?

If not, I'll be soldering some butt connectors on the original base and putting a higher wattage bulb in it

Originally Posted by Blown97

Auto Zone, in the ricer aisle.

I was looking at these too, But was wondering if they were really brighter, how much heat do they produce, and is our system able to handle the power load of a 55w increase from the stock 27w.

SWEET!!! Thanks Blown! I'm sure they're brighter but by how much I do not know. Hopefully it says how many lumens it puts out on the back of the aftermarket bulb package.
I'm not too worried about blowing anything up or melting anything with the 55w bulbs. Let's assume that the voltage of the car is 13.8. Here's the math:

Stock
27w / 13.8v = 1.956521739130435 amps per bulb

Aftermarket
55w / 13.8v = 3.985507246376812 amps per bulb

So with stock bulbs we are drawing roughly 4 amps. With 55w bulbs we are drawing roughly 8 amps total. I would assume that there is a 10 amp fuse. If the wiring wasnt able to handle 10 amps, then the fuse could be useless in the event of an overloaded circuit.

I went from the stock 880/27watt bulb, to a 889/37watt bulb, an it melted my plastic fog light housing. It didn't destroy the housing, just melted it enough, that the fog light bulb was loose in the housing, an no longer aimed even close to correctly. FWIW. So, BlazerTechs, waiting to go in.