Mr. Merk
Newly Enlightened
I'm assuming this is a no-go. I want to be sure, so I'm asking the experts.
I recently replaced my 2005 GMC headlamps with new OEM lamps, and now the rest of my 15 year old cloudy lamps are bothering me. I'm bored, stuck at home and surfing the world wide web. I found that LMC shows replacement fog lamps with and without a bulb shield. My original lamps are without shield, but the 9145 bulbs are capped. I started digging around to see if there were other bulbs spec'd for the trucks with bulb shields, and stumbled on an article showing how to adapt a 9005 in place of a 9145 bulb. The modification is similar to the 9011 base modification, so in theory a 9011 could also be installed in place of a 9145. I found an article where a guy had done this swap on a Toyota.
I used to be a fogs-on-all-the-time guy. Thanks to this forum I now rarely ever use them. This week it has been unusually foggy, and I used them while driving to work on three separate occasions.
Now then, tell me why an HIR1 shouldn't be used in a 9145 fog lamp with a bulb shield.
I recently replaced my 2005 GMC headlamps with new OEM lamps, and now the rest of my 15 year old cloudy lamps are bothering me. I'm bored, stuck at home and surfing the world wide web. I found that LMC shows replacement fog lamps with and without a bulb shield. My original lamps are without shield, but the 9145 bulbs are capped. I started digging around to see if there were other bulbs spec'd for the trucks with bulb shields, and stumbled on an article showing how to adapt a 9005 in place of a 9145 bulb. The modification is similar to the 9011 base modification, so in theory a 9011 could also be installed in place of a 9145. I found an article where a guy had done this swap on a Toyota.
I used to be a fogs-on-all-the-time guy. Thanks to this forum I now rarely ever use them. This week it has been unusually foggy, and I used them while driving to work on three separate occasions.
Now then, tell me why an HIR1 shouldn't be used in a 9145 fog lamp with a bulb shield.
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