03 Taho HID help..

[NoPh33rRaCiNg]

What is it hitting? The reflector or the lense? I'm not sure if denali's have reflectors in theirs, but my tahoe did and i just stuck something in the hole where the bulb goes and pushed the reflector about 1/2'' for my 880 bulb to fit.

 

[92__silverado]

I have been doing a lot of research through and through the tahoeyukonforum and I can not find the answer to my question regarding HID's in the Fogs. And since WHITEOUT and DenaliAK in my opinion have a lot of knowledge with HID's then I will ask a question.

I have just upgraded my HID Lows from the 35W Ballast to the DDM 55W and am going to use the 35W for my fogs. I order the 880 HID bulb from DDM and attempted the install. Here is my problem--it seems that the 880 HID bulb is too long for the fog light housing. How do I over come this problem?? I have heard of a spacer, but i can seem to find a pic anywhere and I have also PMed other forum members and they so far have not come across this problem b/c there 880 HID bulbs fit perfectly fine.

Any help is greatly appreciated...I was kinda looking forward to installing the HID fogs over the Thanksgiving holiday.

On my 2003 tahoe I just did the ddm HID fog lights in brand new housings. The bulb did not hit but it is VERY close. Is it possible the bulb holder for the lows and the fogs is different maybe causing the bulb to sit deeper? You could always do like NoPh33r said and just slide a pen or something in there to bend the reflector away.

 

[DenaliAK]

Do you have the round fog lights? Not sure why the bulbs would hit anything if so. Mine clear just fine. If you have the rectangular fog lights that's another issue. I haven't ever worked with them, so I have to defer to others on that one.

Sounds like you can bend the reflector a bit to make it fit, although I don't want to think about how that effects your beam pattern. I'd avoid spacers of some kind unless you can get the bulb pretty well sealed in. Moisture has a tendency of finding it's way into the fogs.

 

[1lowhoe04]

On all our Chevys under the hood are the major fuses for your lights I have to take pictures of it but I ran a diod (die-ode) lol and I run my high low and fogs 6k all the time no problems lol besides the other ppl flashing there high beams at me and the occasional middle finger ! If your in fort worth texas area hit me up I'll deff show y'all how to do it 817-368-9984

 

[92__silverado]

On all our Chevys under the hood are the major fuses for your lights I have to take pictures of it but I ran a diod (die-ode) lol and I run my high low and fogs 6k all the time no problems lol besides the other ppl flashing there high beams at me and the occasional middle finger ! If your in fort worth texas area hit me up I'll deff show y'all how to do it 817-368-9984

I have square lights on my tahoe.

Those are actually relays under the hood, there is a write up on here on how to do the 4/6-high mod with that method.

I had it done for a while but have decided to go with a relay to do the same thing, I was worried about the chance of something in the under hood relay box going haywire and being stuck somewhere with no lights.

 

[DenaliAK]

Tahoe...ok. Square lights. I knew that but wasn't sure what you had. It helps if I read the whole thread title... Lol

 

[polobuds]

I have been doing a lot of research through and through the tahoeyukonforum and I can not find the answer to my question regarding HID's in the Fogs. And since WHITEOUT and DenaliAK in my opinion have a lot of knowledge with HID's then I will ask a question.

I have just upgraded my HID Lows from the 35W Ballast to the DDM 55W and am going to use the 35W for my fogs. I order the 880 HID bulb from DDM and attempted the install. Here is my problem--it seems that the 880 HID bulb is too long for the fog light housing. How do I over come this problem?? I have heard of a spacer, but i can seem to find a pic anywhere and I have also PMed other forum members and they so far have not come across this problem b/c there 880 HID bulbs fit perfectly fine.

Any help is greatly appreciated...I was kinda looking forward to installing the HID fogs over the Thanksgiving holiday.

You might want to check out this thread that I posted on:

http://www.tahoeyukonforum.com/forum/showthread.php?t=19188&page=2

I had the exact same problem. Ordered 35W 880 HID bulbs from DDM and installed them in new smoked fogs. The 880 bulb was a lot longer than the stock bulb and was hitting the reflector in the fogs. Some people on here had the same problem, and some removed the reflector, and some just stuck the bulb in and it didnt affect anything. I did the latter and just stuck the bulb in. It is touching the reflector and has bent it slightly, but other than that, it has been working fine. Although I'm not 100% sure it isnt affecting on-coming traffic because everytime I have my fogs on, I get people flashing me as if I have my highs on when I dont (i have stock bulbs in).

880 vs stock



DDM 35W 6000k 880 bulb installed in smoked fogs

 

[NoPh33rRaCiNg]

You can just stick a flathead in there and push the reflector out a little bit