When you need to replace these lights in your vehicle, you can refer to this guide to help you replace the fog light bulbs in a simple and straightforward way so that you can get back on the road to wherever your travels take you.įog lights in the Kia Soul are front-facing lights that shine light in a bar-shaped beam aimed toward the ground. By illuminating the road directly in front of you, fog lights for the Kia Soul can improve your field of visibility better than with headlights alone. Popped 'em back apart to paint the brackets to prevent rust, now that I know they fit how I want them toĮasy job.next up I'll order either some high power LED's or maybe HID's to go in them probably go with LED as HID seem to be obnoxiously bright in this application.Your Guide to Fog Lights for the Kia Soulįog lights are a vital vehicle accessory to help you gain better visibility, especially in remote or rural areas where fog is most prevalent. Other set made, both lights in place and operating Side view behind the brake duct, I think I want to cut out some vinyl to cover up the excess lens area and prevent light bleed-through around the duct Mocking up the bracket using a piece of cardboard just to be sureįirst set made, checking the fit and operation I used stainless fasteners since they sit right above the lens, didn't want moisture causing any rust to drip down on them. Even with the 1/8" thickness I was able to attach them without issue using the studs poking up from the bumper cover brackets above the brake ducts.
Installing fog lights zip#
Used cutoff wheel to zip off some 5" sections then drilled the holes 1/4" with one end a little offset as shown in that thread, then cleaned up all the edges with the die grinder. Thought about using aluminum and it probably would have been fine at that thickness, but I wanted to be sure they wouldn't flex at all. I used plain 1 x 1/8" steel flat bar to make the brackets. Had a set of nice OEM housings and the switch from 1Fastbrick sitting around here forever finally got around to doing mine today, used the bracket info given in this post -> - my truck being an '06 the factory wiring is already in place so I just needed to make brackets and add the parts. Įdited Octoby SSmoothSilSS (see edit history)
Installing fog lights how to#
Thread of bracket dimensions and how to install.
Installing fog lights install#
There are other threads on how to make the brackets and install the foglights in this How to do section.īolts above the foglight/brake ducts to attach the brackets of the foglights.īrackets installed on bumper. Here are some picture of the Fog Lights instlalled. Plug your foglight harness to the lights, I took black ties and strapped the harness to other wires. Then I covered it with the plastic wire loom. Take the ground wire from your harness to the side of the engine block. Then pigtail your hot wire onto the end and reinstall the block back in place and reinstall the whole fuse box back together. To add the clip to D6 you need to slide out the blue clip on the GREEN box to install the connector clip make sure you install it the same as the others in the block.
When you cut it out keep the wire long enough to pigtail it to the fog light wiring harness.Ĭontinue to nexted thread, Edited Octoby SSmoothSilSS (see edit history) You will need the clip that fits in the square, I went to wrecking yard and cut a few out from a later model truck. You will need to add a wire to the GREEN block that will connect to the relay. If D6 has 2 purple wire in its place then you do have a foglight harness installed.įind D6 it next to the RED wire in the pic. Use the prior thread or your shop book to locate D6. Turn it over and you will see a GREEN square block.
Take the top cover of the fuse box off, there are clips on the front and back to remove it. The picture shows mine is black and in the lower left corner. Then remove the cover and add the relay, look under the cover it will show the place for the relay. Relay- you can get at any part store or on ebay.įirst disconnect your battery and remove the brace above the fuse panel. Review the prior post to see for connection to the fuse block.įoglight harness-I used this one and cut out the relay and used the connecton to the foglight and hot to the fuse block and grounded to the side of the engine block. Here's how to add wiring to your fuse block if you don't have a harness.
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